DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 9 August 1917, Page 23

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.) August 2. The working bee formed to improve the presbytery property at Otahuhu has been working assiduously. When the work is completed the Rev. Father Taylor will be comfortably equipped with an up-to-date residence.

A concert is being promoted to further augment the organ fund of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and tickets are being readily disposed of. The fund has already accumulated to considerable proportions, due to the untiring efforts of the Rev. Father Murphy, Adm. References were made at the various churches on Sunday last to the conscription of the Marist Brothers for military service, and the parishioners were exhorted to support the ecclesiastical authorities in the constitutional efforts that were being made in regard to the matter. At a largely attended meeting of the parishioners of the Sacred Heart Church, Ponsonby, last week, it was proposed by Mr. J. T. Fitzgerald and seconded by Mr. P. Darby, that the meeting tender its heartfelt thanks to the Rev. Dr. Kelly, of the N.Z. Tablet, for the courageous and effective manner in which he has promoted the claims of the Marist Brothers and students for exemption, and also to express the general approval and appreciation of the manner in which he has edited the paper. The motion was very enthusiastically carried. By the kind permission of the Rev. Mother, a most enjoyable concert was given to the inmates of the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, on Saturday afternoon, July 28. It was under the auspices of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, and the immediate management of Mr. M. Moodabe. Assisting him were some thirty members of the St. Cecilia Convent Choir, and among , other items were an Irish jig and Scotch reels by pupils of Miss' Beresford. Pupils of Mr. Leo Whittaker also contributed. Miss Clark was accompanist. Every credit is due to Mr. Moodabe for his able organisation, and his successful rendering of several items on the programme. The Rev. Father Golden, on behalf of the Sisters, returned thanks in a humorous speech, which terminated a most delightful afternoon’s entertainment. s