Palmerston North

New Zealand Tablet, 21 May 1914, Page 29

Palmerston North

(From our own correspondent.)

May 17.

The first annual balance sheet of the church fund will be ready on May 30. . The importation, by a local firm of undertakers, of a large motor hearse, is a further indication of the rapid change in the old order of things. A social was held by the Catholics of Ashhurst on Wednesday evening last in aid of their church fund, and tho.results were entirely satisfactory. The Rev. Fathers Bannon and Grogan, C.SS.R., commenced to-day a mission, which is to last a fortnight. The first week is to be devoted principally to the women of the parish, and the second to the men. This arrangement has been necessitated by the lack of accommodation in the present church. It is to be hoped that before the next mission a more commodious edifice will be erected.