Temuka

New Zealand Tablet, 4 October 1906, Page 24

Temuka

(From our own correspondent.)

October 1

The Catholic presbytery is to be solemnly blessed and opened on Sunday next by the Yen. Archdeacon Devoy. The Very Rev. Father Le Menant 'des Chesnais, V.G., and others of the clergy are expected to be present. The building is now completed, and, 'besides -being an" ornament to the township, will suddlv a long-felt want. The Temuka Catholic Young Men's Club held its last meeting of the present session on Friday even?n£' w th e re was a Iar S e attendance, of members rhe programme for the evening was the oratorical competition which had been arranged by the executive of the Federated Societies, the subject 'being •' Mr. Soddon as a statesman and as a man.' The competitors were Messrs. D. G'Halloran,. W. Clarke, D O'Connell, T. Brosnahan, and T. Knight. The judges Rev Father Kerley, and Messrs. W. Barry and'-W. Hally announced that they had come to an unanimous decision in favor of Mr. O'Connell. This gentleman is therefore the first in the Temuka Club to gain-a diploma for oratory.