DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 19 June 1919, Page 19

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.) •• June 13. Father O’Malley is now in charge of the Avondale parish. Last night at St. Benedict's Hall, Newton,- St. Benedict’s . Men’s Club held a highly successful social, the proceeds of which go to the Marist Brothers. • * His Lordship Bishop Cleary, though still a patient in the Mater Misericord ins Hospital, is making good progress towards recovery. Father Bowen, of the Mill Hill Fathers, made an appeal at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on last Sunday, on behalf of the Maori Missions. In the Rugby football contest last Saturday, at Eden Park, after a strenuous game, Sacred Heart College defeated Grammar School by 3 points to nil. On June 25 a bazaar will be opened in the Parnell parish, the object being to augment the parish funds. His Lordship the Bishop of Christchurch will be present at the opening ceremony. Father Doherty, who came temporarily to labor in New Zealand, has left Puhoi, and will shortly return to his native diocese. lie has been replaced by Father Lynch, who was recently, stationed at Te Awamutu. Very Rev. Father Carran, Adm., Church of the Sacred Heart, Ponsonby, has recovered from his recent illness sufficiently to allow of his departure from the Mater Misericordke Hospital, and is now back among Iris parishioners. Last week reference was made to a mission which is to begin in. the Church of the Sacred Heart, Ponsonby, on June 21. It is now definitely known that this mission will take the form of a Novena to the Sacred Heart, and will be conducted by the Marist Missioners, Fathers McCarthy and O’Leary. At evening devotions at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Auckland, on the four Sundays during May a very impressive procession in honor of the Blessed Virgin took place. The parish priests, preceded by the members of the Children of Mary, Guard of Honor, and Altar Boy Societies (clad in regalia), together with the convent school children (in their usual spotless white) comprised the procession, and a statue of our Lady, tastefully decorated, was carried round on a small platform by four Children of Mary—the whole presenting a very pretty spectacle. Our Lady’s altar was also beautifully decorated. ■ There has been some considerable agitation lately in Auckland concerning the-lack of sufficient accommodation in the various public schools.. Some of the Catholic schools, too, require more space for the rapidly increasing number of pupils, and to meet ; this constantly growing want two schemes of extensions, are now well advanced. The one consists of plans for the addition of two classrooms to the Dominion.,Road ; ; parish

school* and the other to increase the accommodation of the parish school of St. Benedict's by the addition of one., large classroom over the stage. :. Both schools are under the control; of the Sisters rof|! St. Joseph. The plans have been i approved by' the Education Board's i architects, and the work should be well under way in • the course of a few weeks. \.