ST. PATRICK’S COLLEGE JUBILEE FUND

New Zealand Tablet, 29 September 1910, Page 1582

ST. PATRICK’S COLLEGE JUBILEE FUND

At a representative faceting of clergy and laity held in AA elhngton about twelve months ago it was resolved to commemorate the silver jubilee of St. Patrick’s College by raising a fund, to be known as the St. Patrick’s College Jubilee J?und, to be applied to the if not complete extinction, of the existing debt on the institution, and the building and equipment of science laboratories in connection a ith the institution. The college was erected at a cost of £21,300, towards which the Catholics of this V.™ 11011 contributed £IO,OOO, and the Marist Fathers £oßoo so that it started with a debt of £5500, which, through unavoidable circumstances, now amounts to £7500. Since its foundation the Alarist Fathers have spent on improvements to the college and in paying interest on the debt about £IB,OOO. Had not the institution been hampered with a debt, the money paid away in interest could have been put to good account in properly equipping the college. It is not necessary to remind our readers of what the college has done for our Catholic youth during the twenty-five years of its existence. Within its walls they have received a sound Catholic training, all the advantages of a higher education which has qualified them to rank intellectually and socially with the best people in the land, and as a result its past students are to be found at the present time in every walk of life. The committee appointed to arrange for the jubilee celebrations, which will extend over three days, commencing on December 11 earnestly appeal for contributions to the fund, so that they may be in a position next December not only to hand over a sum that will liquidate the debt, but also have sufficient to provide for the necessary equipment of the college. A list of subscriptions appears elsewhere in this issue.