Wanganui

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5, 1 February 1906, Page 5

Wanganui

(From our own correspondent.) January 27. The results of the public examinations to hand bring news of the success of three pupils of the local convent school. Miss Nellie Dwyer passed the Solicitors' General Knowledge and Matriculation examinations, Miss E. Mahotiey Matriculation and Junior Civil Service, and Miss Josephine Lloyd the Junior Civil Service. -» Misses Mahoney (40) and Lloyd (lift) are both gazetted as having ' passed with credit ' the Junior Civil Service examination. These latest successes afford additional proof of the thorough education imparted at the Wanganui Convent School.

There was a large congregation at St. Mary's Church last evening, when five young ladies were received into the Order of the Sisters of St. Joseph, and three others made their profession. The Rev. Father Lynch, C.SS.R., of Perth, West Australia, officiated, and delivered an address appropriate to the occasion. The five young ladies received were— Miss Sophie Georgetti (Sister Bornardine), Miss Parker (Sister Claude), Miss Lily Dalziell (Sister Agnes), Miss McNamara (Sister Berehmans), Miss Alice Casey (Sister Gerard). Sisters Rita,, Ursula, and Raphael made their profession. The Rev. * Fathers W. Tymons, of Palmerston North, and J. Tyraons, of Wellington (brothers of lister Ursula), were present. A special feature of the ceremony was the singing of the choir, which was composed exclusively of the nuns.