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New Zealand Tablet, 15 April 1915, Page 47

The new wings and other additions to the Home fur the Aged and Infirm, conducted by the Little Sisters of the Poor at Randwick, were blessed and opened by the Archbishop of Sydney on Sunday afternoon, March 21 (says the Catholic Press'), when a very large gathering, representative of all sections of the community, showed practical evidence of the appreciation manifested by the general public in the splendid work carried on at the institution. In the course of an address Mr M. Meagher said that at the present time the Little Sisters of the Poor must find it particularly hard to find the =£23,000 which the additions to their home at Randwick cost them, as well as caring for the large number of aged poor. Before the war these devoted nuns might have looked to their mother house in France for assistance; but now all the homes of the Little Sisters in Europe had more than their share of troubles. They could imagine what troubles these self-sacrificing Sisters had to provide for the thousands of aged poor in Antwerp, Brussels, Bruges, Liege, Louvain, Mons, Namur, Ostend, in Belgium ; and in Armentiers, Cambrai, Saint Quentin, Mauberge, Roubaix, Rheims, and Lille, in France; also in Constantinople. Here v in Australia alone, not to speak of New Zealand or New Caledonia, the Little Sisters had spent £170,000..in building homes for old people, every penny of which they collected themselves, never, of course, receiving one shilling from the State.