ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, 29 October 1908, Page 24

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

(From an Occasional Correspondent.) October 23. The Forty Hours' Adoration- at the Petone Catholic Church was commenced on Sunday last. Large- congregations attended during the devotion. Rev. Father Maples conducted all -the services. A very large number of people attended the annual Catholic social in Hie local Drill Hall, Feilding, on Wednesday night. The funds of the church were considerably augmented by the proceeds. The members of the Wellington Catholic Club will hold their annual smoke concert in the club rooms on Thursday, November 5, when it is cxpecteda large muster of members will be present. At the Miners' Federation Conference held in Wellington, and which terminated on Thursday, it was decided to. retain Mr. P. J. O'Regan as legal adviser to the affiliated unions. A dinner, given on Wednesday evening by the Wellington Trained Nurses Asssociation in the large dining room of the V.M.C.A., was in every way a conspicuous success. Among the guests were a great number of women who are interested in the work of nurses. Rev. Mother Mary Joseph Aubert was welcomed with great enthusiasm by the ..nurses. After the dinner there were speeches. The Mayoress (Mrs. Hislop) made an excelllent speech in proposing the health of the president' (Mrs. Kendall). Dr. Agnes Bennett briefly responded on behalf of Mrs. Kendall, and then proposed the toast of ' The Nurses ' in a very interesting speeech, contrasting the position and qualifications of the nurses of to-day with those of previous years. She referred to" the fact that the first nurses of Christendom were connected with religious organisations, and right through the centuries we had had nurses of this type in our midst, and she spoke of the pleasure it gave the association to have with them as their guest so distinguished- a representative of the religious nursing orders, as they found in Mother Mary 'Aubert. "In proposing the health of the nurses, she wished to couple with it the name of Mother Mary Aubert. Mother .Mary Aubert replied to the toast in a few words, referring to her experience 'in the Crimea and her association with Miss Florence Nightingale.

October 26. Improvements have been made recently at St. Mary's Church. The Forty Hours' Adoration commenced at St. Joseph's Church last Sunday. The annual sports of St. Patrick's College will be held on Monday, November 2. The executive committee of the Petone Catholic Club have arranged to hold their first annual picnic on November 9 at Taita. The Very Rev. Dean Smyth made an urgent appeal to the Te Aro parishioners last Sunday to subscribe to the Cathedral fund. [We have received from a correspondent a news item with reference to the recent musical examinations which we are unabte to make use of owing to the writer not having sent his name and ' address as a guarantee of good faith. — Ed. N.Z.T.]