Oamaru

New Zealand Tablet, 5 February 1920, Page 28

Oamaru

(From our own correspondent.)

February 2.

St. Joseph's School re-opens to-day, and St. Thomas's on Tuesday, February 9. At both Masses yesterday parents were urged to send their children on the opening day, so that a good beginning might bo made for the year. Rev. Father Falvey, 0.P., who has been giving a Retreat to the Dominican Nuns at Teschemakers, went south on Friday last.

Father Gondringer, of St. Patrick's College staff, left here for the north on Saturday. A very pleasant evening, in the form of a surprise party, was spent .on Thursday last, when a number of friends of Mrs. O'Donnell and Mrs. Gleeson called upon

them for the purpose ■of making \ a presentation: on the eve of their departure for trip to the Old'Country.;: In presenting them j with handsome travelling hags, Right Rev. Mgr. Mackay, on behalf/ of ~their Oamaru .friends, wished both a pleasant holiday and a'■ safe "return ;'- ■--ivi r ; Mass will be celebrated at the following places during the month: —February 8: Kurow, at 9 ; a.m.; and Duntroon at 11 '.; a.m.; February 15: Windsor Park, at 9 a.m., Ngapara, at 11 a.m., .and Pukeuri, at; 10 a.m.; February 22: Duntroon, at 9 a.m. and Kurow, at 11 a.m. ; February 29: Ngapara, at 9- a.m., "Windsor Park, at 11 a.m., and Waitaki South, at 1 11 a.m. '■_

. JOHN JOSEPH FITZHARRIS (Convent School, Waimate) Winner of Right Rev. Dr. Brodie Scholarship, tenable at St. Bede's College, Christchurch.