Petono Roman Catholics are taking a practical way of erecting a monument to the late Father McManeinin by providing what will be known as the Chaplain McManeinin Memorial Church, a dignified reinforced concrete structure. A tender has been accepted for the erection of the church, which is to cost approximately £IO.OOO. The members of the association had been described as ihe “aristocrats of New Zealand," said Lord Bledisloe at a reunion of early settlers at Wellington, and be entirely associated himself with that description. It is because I have the most profound respect for what 1 believe to be the distinguishing characteristic of heart and head, which characterised the old pioneers of 1840 and thereabouts, that I think you are entitled to regard yourselves as nucleus of the finest type of aristocracy that can be found in any country, he said,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18204, 27 September 1933, Page 11
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