DEAN POWER'S SILVER JUBILEE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 15 July 1912, Page 5

DEAN POWER'S SILVER JUBILEE.

On Thursday this week the parishioners of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Hawera, will gather to celebrate the Very Rev. Dean Power's silver jubilee in this priesthood. The venerable Archbishop Redwood, under whom the Dean worked at the old Basilica, in Hill street, Wellington, has just recently also celebrated a silver jubilee, and on the occasion Father Power was raised to the dignity of Dean, and took a distinguished part in the ceron^o-iic--. \Y> ■ ■ Dean Power settled in Hawera in 1898 he and the vica;- of New Plymouth shared betwysn +l\em the whole of Tarnnaki. and t!:e l.kivera parish consiv-M practically o'i nil 3ry.\th' T-rp-aki. But since then such progress has been made in Catholic matteiVthat the parish has been divided into four independent pan f-ies. Under his administration, and before the various districts were cut off from Hawera, churches were erected at Eltham, Kaponga, Okaiawa and Auroa, schools at Hawera and Manaia, the Convent of Manaia, and the fine presbytery at Hawera. He collected and expended on the various buildings about £10,000, practically all of which passed through the hands of merchants and tradesmen of this town. Dean Power acknowledges with gratitude that much of the money was subscribed by generous non-Catholic friends. He likes to see tradesmen and working-men busy, and in this respect he intends to 'do in the future, as in the past, a citizen's Dart.

The actual date of the Dean's jubilee was June 19, but its commemoratio?i was postponed because he had accented an mvitation to preach about that time the occasional sermon at the silver jubilee of the diocese of ChristehureK and of Jts first Bishop, the Right Rev. Dr Unmes.

Dean Power Aras, in 1904, Wellington rlioeesan secretary at the second Australasian Catholic Congress, held at Melbourne, and again at the third Congress in Sydney in 1909. He was intill Cl9oß Of Clltho!i0 Schools from 18^