DESTRUCTION OF SEMINARY

Taranaki Daily News, 6 February 1931, Page 4

DESTRUCTION OF SEMINARY

PRIESTS AND STUDENTS DEAD. DAMAGE ESTIMATED £50,000. Wellington, Feb. ft. The Provincial of the Marist Order has advised that the Greenmeadows Seminary is in ruins and is uninhabitable. The surviving students have been transferred to Highden, just out of Palmerston North. The estimated damage to the Seminary amounts to £50,000. The 'Provincial acknowledges receipt of £lOOO from Mrs. MacCarthy Reid. The Rev. Father Gondringcr was a Luxemburger by nationality. He was for some years a member of the faculty of St. Patrick’s College, where his ability, knowledge, and bonhomie made him very popular mong the students. Vincent Carmody, aged 19 years, Was the third son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Carmody, of 36 Liverpool Street, Wanganui, and was in his second year at the Seminary. He received his primary education at the Wanganui Marist Brothers’ School and matriculated from t'he Technical College. He later attended St. Bede’s College, Christchurch, and from there went to the Seminary at Greenmeadows. Sister Chanel, of the Sacred Heart Convent, St John’s Hill, is an aunt of the decease,..

Father P. J. Boyle, S.M., Procurator of the Seminary at Greenmeadows, was the son of Mrs. T. Boyle, of Harrison Street, Wanganui. He received his primary education at the Marist Brothers’ School, Wanganui, and later attended Villa Maria, Sydney, the Marist Fathers’ Seminary there. 1 After ‘being of the Australian mission for some time he was transferred two years age as Procurator of the Seminary at Greenmeadows. Father Boyle was in Wanganui last month. His late father, Mr. T. ‘Boyle, was at one time manager of the Wanganui Herald; The Rev. Father Kimball was presiding over a “retreat” at the Seminar; this week, and it is supposed that all those killed and injured were in the chapel when it collapsed. It is likely that Father Kimball, who is wellknown all over New Zealand, would just about have flushed his morning's half-hour discourse, and had left ths chapel before the tragedy. • •