Te Awamatu

New Zealand Tablet, 11 April 1912, Page 26

Te Awamatu

(From an occasional correspondent.). „ ■ '7. -. 7.' March 22. Subscriptions-for the building of the new Catholic presbytery, which will soon be erected next - the Catholic church at Te Awamutu, are accumulating very satisfactorily (says ‘the Waipa Post). The list is headed by one hundred 7 guineas from Captain HopeJohnstone (Aratitaha), this being the largest subscription received in the parish from- any one Catholic family during the past four years, except that of £l5O ; from Mr. and Mrs. D. O’Shea, of Pirongia, for the new church at Pirongia, and £l2O for the building of the Te Awamutu church from a family living near Te Awamutu. Mr. D. Moroney, of Woodlands, Karamu, . .although; having - recently contributed £IOO to the building of the Hamilton church, has" donated £25; Mr. J. W. Warren/ ■ architect, Hamilton, has generously given twenty -five guineas;- Mr. Frank McGovern, Te Awamutu, who recently subscribed £7O in paying off the whole debt on the Te Awamutu church arid property, has given £10; Mr. Andrew Karl and family, of Ohaupo, have also donated £10; and a Kihikihi friend has donated an equal sum. Almost every Catholic family in the parish has subscribed £5 or upwards, resulting in the amount contributed exceeding the most sanguine expectations, and biding fair soon to see realised an up-to-date presbytery built in concrete in the rising town and parish of Te Awamutu.