Diocesan News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLVI, Issue 18, 1 May 1919, Page 21

Diocesan News

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON (From our own correspondent.) April 26. Father McCarthy, S.M., of the Marist Missionary Fathers, preached at St. Anne’s Church, Wellington South, on Good Friday evening. A mission for the parishioners of St. Joseph’s is being conducted by Fathers Ainsworth and McCarthy, Marist Missioners. Father Smyth, S.M., Adm., of the Thorndou parish, and an energetic committee, are busily occupied with a sale of work and tug of war tournament, which is being held at the Sydney Street Schoolroom, in order to raise funds to liquidate parish liabilities. A jumble sale was conducted this afternoon by ladies interested in the welfare of the Catholic Gilds’ Hostel, and proved most successful. The plans for the additions to the present Catholic Girls’ Hostel to provide much-needed accommodation are now ready. The additions will enable the management to cater for a much larger number, and do away with much of the disappointment now experienced by numerous applicants who are anxious to secure a good Catholic home, and who are very reluctantly refused accommodation owing to the cramped conditions at present prevailing. Funds are urgently needed for this great work, and any donation, be it small or large, will be gratefully received and acknowledged by the treasurer, Mr. J. J. L. Burke, The Rev. Brother Basil .is, in town soliciting donations; for the erection : ; pf the Marist Brothers’ Training

College and Novitiate which it is proposed 1 to establish in New Zealand. Suitable land has been acquired in the Taranaki District (Inglewood). Owing •to the New Zealand Brothers of the Order being given Home Rule instead of being ruled by Australia, the Brothers required to satisfy New Zealand needs must be supplied from the Dominion, and this cannot be done unless the Training College and Novitiate is established. The New Zealand schools are at present seriously understaffed, and Catholics, if they desire their boys to be taught in the future by Marist Brothers must make some sacrifice to assist them to supply, and train young men gifted with the vocation, for the great and noble work of Catholic education.

Mr. E. P. Bunny, solicitor, of Wellington, has gone to Auckland to meet his son, Gunner Athol Bunny, who returned by the hospital ship Maheuo, and was reported dangerously ill, suffering from nephritis. Latest reports are of a somewhat encouraging nature. Gunner Bunny, who left with the 26th Reinforcements, N.Z.F.A., is an ex-student of St. Patrick’s College, and is about 22 years of age.

Constable Patrick Minogue, who died at Palmerston North last week, joined the force on January 24, 1879, when he was a member ,of the Armed Constabulary, and had thus been in the service for 40 years at the time of his death, being due to retire on superannuation next June. The deceased officer was both popular and highly respected in the force and among all those who knew him. At the time of the epidemic, he was stricken by the influenza, and he had never quite recovered from the effects of his illness. He leaves a widow, five sous, and two daughters. The sons are : The Rev. P. J. Minogue, late of the New Zealand Forces, at present stationed at Taihape ; Mr. William J. Minogue, of the New Zealand Railways, Wellington : Mr. Joe Minogue, of the Postal Department, Wellington ; Mr. Dan Minogue, of the College Street teaching staff ; Sister Mary Paul, of St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Upper Hutt, is one of the daughters.—R.l.P.

■Easter Sunday was celebrated with great solemnity at St. Gerard’s Church. The early Masses were all well attended, and large numbers approached the Holy Table. Solemn High Mass was celebrated at 10 a.m. by the Very Rev. Rector, Father Whelan, C.SS.R., assisted by Father Mangan (deacon) and Father Langley (subdeacon). The choir, under the direction of Mr. Frank Oakes, sang Van Bree’s Mass No. 2, Tozer’s “Proper,” and Hanxxerell’s “Terra Tremuit” at the Offertory. The singing was very devotional. After Mass the members of the choir were entertained at the Monastery by the Rector, who, in a happy speech congratulated them on their very fine efforts. He said that the community of St. Gerard’s owed much to them, and he expressed his thanks for their attendances during the Holy Week services. The Tenebrae music as interpreted by the choir, including the Responses, the Boned ictus, and Miserere each evening, and the Masses on Holy Thursday and Holy Saturday ■were assisted at by the choir in a most acceptable manner. He appreciated I heir work given so unselfishly in the praise of God. After the Rosary in the evening, the choir sang the “Regina Cadi” (Witakar), “Pam's Angelicas” (Palestrina), “Terra Tremuit,” “O Salutaris” (Holloway), and “Adoremus” (Allegri). Father Mangan, C.SS.R., preached.