NEW CATHOLIC SCHOOL
OPENING AT WESTPORT. I< Bj Telegraph—Press Association.) WESTPORT, Feb. 15. A new St. Joseph’s School, costing £6500, was opened to-day by Archbishop O’Shea in the presence of a large assemblage. His Grace delivered an eloquent address, in the course of which he stressed the need for an education with a religious basis, to the absence of which lie atrtibuted in no small measure the economic and other ills from which the world was suffering to-day. Rev. Father Phelan, parish priest, announced that the school was being opened free of debt, which led Mr. H. Holland, M.P., later to remark that this was all the more remarkable seeing that “every one of us and the country is in debt.” Other speakers were Mr. J. H. Harkness, Mayor of Westport, H)on. W. H. Mclntyre, chairman of the Nelson Education Board, and Mr. J. Radford, chairman of the parish committee. Archbishop O’Shea received a gold key from the contractors.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 16 February 1931, Page 4
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