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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 17, 24 April 1902, Page 6

The progress of the Catholis faith in Tasmania (says the Monitor') is marked by the steadily increasing number of convents and religious institutions which are springing up amongst us. Not many years ago in the Archdiocese of Hobart there were but three convents— two in Hobart and one in Launceston. Indeed, when his Grace, our venerable Archbishop, came to assume the reins of episcopal authority in the island, there was but one religious community in the diocese, and that consisted of a few Sisters only. Since then what a change has taken place ! Instead of one we have five distinct religious sisterhoods, laboring amongst us in those works of charity special to the aim and purpose of their constitutions — the Presentation Sisters, the Sisters of Mercy, the Sisters of Charity, the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, and the Sisters of St. Joseph. Instead of one convent and school we have 26 convent schools, 21 convents, and something like 180 Sisters. The late census returns showed that we are holding our own in the increase of population, and considerably advancing with the years. The increase in cur religious institutions, schools, convents, etc., show that efforts are being made to meet with the larger requirements of the faithful consequent upon their increased numbers.