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New Zealand Tablet, 10 December 1908, Page 14

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(Fiom our own correspondent.)

December 4. At Hastings on Sunday afternoon his Grace Archbishop Redwood confirmed seventy-six children, and in the evening preached an instructive sermon on Confirmation. An ordination ceremony took place at the Meanee Mission Church last Sunday morning at 9 o'clock, when his Grace Archbishop Redwood celebrated Mass, assisted by the Very Rev. Father Regnault (Provincial) and Rev. Dr Kennedy, of Meanee. Revs. James Eccleton, Michael Murphy, Arthur Burger, Augustine Yenning, Victor Geaney and Lynch Dignan were ordained subdeacons, and on Monday morning at 9 o'clock in the Sacred Heart Church, Hastings, were ordained deacons. Rev. Father O'Connell, of Meanee, who has been giving missions at the towns on. the Main Trunk Line, has returned, and goes to Wairoa for the Forty Hours' Adoration. The students of the Meanee Seminary have now a large swimming bath, which they, have completed mainly by their own exertions. Previously they had a small bath fed from an artesian source. The Btudents have now enlarged and deepened it, and concreted the sides. The

bath is 100 feet long by 50 feet wide, and in the deepest part is six feet. It is allowed to empty each evening, and the wells are turned into it in the morning.