PAEROA.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 23, Issue 47, 23 November 1899, Page 5

PAEROA.

A meeting of the newly-formed Catholic pchool committe was held on Sunday, November 12, at St. Mary's, Paeroa (says the Hauraki Tribune). The following members were present :— Rev. Father Hackett (chairman), Messrs. Poland, Crosby. Power, Beattie, Barrett, Goonan, McVeigh, O'Hara, Fitzpatrick, Trainor, and Wolff. The chairman eubmitted the plans and specifications for (he new school building, wbiub, with a few alterations, were unanimously approved, and it was decided to call immediately for tenders for erejtion. It is expected the school will be built within two months from date. The site chosen for the school is without exception, the finest in Paeroa, being part of the church property adjoining St. Mary's, which commands a fine view and affords the suhool children three acres for a playgtound. At the conclusion of the meeting Father Hackett thanked the committee for the assistance given and the enthusiastic manner in which they undertook the work of providing Paeroa with a school which in February next will be placed in charge of four nuns from Sydney.