DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, 23 February 1911, Page 338

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

The annual meeting 0 f the Christian Brothers’ Old Boys Association takes place in St. Joseph’s Hall on iuesaay evening. m Right Rev Mgr. Fowler, who is on a visit to Christchurch, where he is the guest of his Lordship Bishop Crimes, is expected in Dunedin towards the end of the week. A sewing guild in connection with the St. Vincent de J aui Society was started during the week at Mrs. Crowe’s residence, Raikorai in charge of Mrs. Crowe and Mrs. Cornish. Mrs. Rossbotham has been, appointed secretary of the North-east Valley guild. The Catholic schools’ picnic, which was held on Wednesc ay or last week, was most successful from every piont of view. Ihe attendance was remarkably good, about 1400 children and adults being conveyed by train, consisting of nineteen carnages, to Evansdale—an ideal spot for such an outing. In addition ? numbers proceeded to the grounds *y vehicles, so that during the afternoon there must have been about 1800 persons present. The weather was perfect, and those who were not interested in the various amusements organised for the entertainment of the children took the opportunity of viewing the pretty scenery along the river. The management committee had a very busy time catering for the amusement of the juveniles, and

they had the satisfaction of knowing that their efforts were successful. Miss Ida Maud McKenzie, a former pupil of the Dominican Nuns, Dunedin and Invercargill, and an exstudent of the Otago University, who left for Edinburgh some three years ago to study medicine, is making good progress, as will be seen by reference to her achievements to date —viz. : Summer session, 1908. Zoology, first-class honors and medal; botany, first-class honors. Winter session, 1908-9: Medical physics, first-class honors and prizes (completed first professional examination); junior anatomy, first-class honors (90 per cent.). Winter session, 1909-10: Experimental physiology, first-class honors (passed physiology of second professional examination). December, 1909: Senior anatomy, first-class honors (95 per cent.); practical materia medica, first-class honors. July, -.Passed in anatomy (she studied this subject in three months short of the prescribed time), thus completing her second professional examination.