Hawera

New Zealand Tablet, 3 July 1913, Page 43

Hawera

(From an occasional correspondent.) Some members of the local branch of -the Catholic Federation are now engaged in an active canvass in aid of a new and much-needed infant school. It is to be hoped that they will meet with such a generous response as will secure an up-to-date school, and encourage them to interest themselves in similar work in the future. <

The retreat for the members of the confraternity of. the Sacred Heart, acted by Rev. Father Creagh, C.SS.R., and brought to a close last Sunday,, was the most successful held in, the parish. It was attended not only by all the members of the confraternity, but also by the great body of the parishioners. Notwithstanding the inclement weather over 300 attended the 6 o’clock Mass every morning, and 470 out of 510 parishioners of over seven years of age went to Confession, and there were in the seven days 2000 Holy Communions. The parish priest said that the retreat was in every sense

the most "successful he had ever attended. This was due in 'r a great measure to the zeal and eloquence of the preacher, who had come to them from the land :of saints and scholars who had been trained in her world! famed schools, and who was an eloquent exponent of her best traditions. He hoped the ; day was far distant when Ireland would cease to send her missionaries to New Zealand, or' when New Zealand-born Catholics would repudiate their debt to Ireland. r The children of the Convent School treated Very Rev. Dean Power to a charming little concert on Thursday/June 19, in honor-..0f his ordination day. He expressed his gratitude, to the children and .^ their teachers, and his delight in their singing and -in the proud position which, according to the Board inspectors, the school held; and as he usually does on these occasions he handed the little purse to : the Sister in charge of the Altar Society.