DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 11 February 1915, Page 36

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By telegraph, from our own correspondent.)

February 8. A new church-school was opened yesterday afternoon at Mount Roskill.

Rev. Fathers McDonald and Stephenson, the latter from the Armidale diocese, arrived from Sydney yesterday. They will spend some time touring the Dominion.

There was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at the Cathedral on Sunday from the last Mass until after Vespers. In the evening the usual procession, followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, took place. Rev. Father Carran preached a practical and instructive sermon.

The St. Patrick’s Day celebration committee met on Sunday afternoon at St. Benedict’s Clubroom, when Mr. Gilfedder presided over a large attendance. A large amount of detail business, connected with the celebration, was dealt with. The next meeting is fixed for Sunday afternoon, February 14. At the Holy Family Confraternity meeting on Tuesday evening, Rev. Father Ormond gave a most interesting address on the ‘Feast of the Purification of our Blessed Lady.’ He showed from the history of the Church the great respect in which this feast was held by the early Christians. The lecturer deduced many lessons from it, and urged upon members to practise constant devotion to the Blessed Virgin.

SACRED HEART COLLEGE.

(From our Auckland correspondent. All interested in the cause of the education of the

Catholic youth of New Zealand will be pleased with the brilliant scholastic results achieved by the students of the Sacred Heart College, Ponsonby, in the recent public examinations. To better equip students for professional studies, the University authorities have gradually made the entrance within its walls more exacting, and notwithstanding this fact the students of the Sacred Heart College have, year by year, asserted in the examination lists their claim to bo placed in the very first rank. Eight representatives from the college matriculated, qualifying at the same time for entrance into the law and medical schools within the University. This record speaks for itself, when we learn from the examiners’ report that only 50 per cent, of those presented for examination were successful. _ Maurice Flynn, son of Mr. D. Flynn, of this city, has, although quite young, again merited distinction for his college by practically winning the Senior Board Scholarship, as he was next in merit, his chances being decided by but one mark. Mortimer Reddington, M. Rodgers, and P. O’Connor were also placed high in the same examination, a success greatly enhanced by the fact, that the much-coveted prize is keenly competed for by scholarship holders in all the secondary schools. In the Junior Public Service Examination list were the names of M. Flynn, S. Johnston, P. O’Connor, J. Boylan, M. Reddington, M. Rodgers, M. Franklin, R. Duggan, E. Parkinsonall students of the Sacred Heart College, who have given tangible proof of the work at the institution during the past year.