New Plymouth

New Zealand Tablet, 26 August 1920, Page 23

New Plymouth

(From our own correspondent.) August 21. i■•■':"'• Rev. Father O'Connor is at present visiting the back-block district in and around Awakino. The annual concert tendered to Very Rev. Dean McKenua by the Convent, High and Parish Schools on the occasion of his feast day has again proved an unqualified success, and the Sisters are to be congratulated on the excellent programme submitted and so capably rendered. Mrs. McKean, late licensee of the Criterion Hotel, has left New Plymouth to reside in Auckland. In losing Mrs. McKean New Plymouth will lose a good friend, as she has always been very generous in her assistance towards every worthy object. Extensive alterations are impending in connection with the Rolland Hall, and it is anticipated that when completed the building will prove a more profitable venture than in the past. Mr. and Mrs. S. Hooper, who left New Plymouth last June, are at present residing in Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. Hooper have been associated with the Church in this town for many years, Mr. Hooper having held many responsible positions in connection with the various societies of the Church. Having sold their interests in New Plymouth they are at present on an extended holiday in Wellington, but intend returning here at an early date. Miss Eileen Hooper has entered the Convent of the Sisters of the Missions at Christchurch. Heartiest congratulations on her call to the religious life are tendered. Miss Gladys Vincent, the noted violinist, was the guest of the Sisters of the Missions at an "afternoon" held in her honor recently.