DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 23 September 1920, Page 22

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.)

September 17. Mr. ; Beard, Tablet, representative, is in Auckland, and is staying at the Thistle Hotel. Rev. Father A. Moynihan, CM., of Ashfield, Sydney, and the Redemptorist Fathers,- will conduct the various Retreats for the clergy and religious of the diocese in December and January. The children's fete and Christmas tree, organised by the Sisters and children of St. Patrick's Convent School, is being held to-day (Friday, September 17) and to-mor-row. It is to support St. Patrick's queen candidate, Miss Erina O'Connor. Mr. John Quinn, one of the old identities in the Cathedral parish, died at his residence, Nelson Street, on September 16, aged 80 years. There will be a Requiem Mass at 9 a.m. to-morrow. From the Cathedral the funeral will proceed to the Symonds Street Cemetery. Rev. Father Fordo, Adm. St. Patrick's Cathedral, will officiate at tho interment. —R.l. P. The local celebrations in honor of the Beatification of Blessed Oliver Plnnket, the martyred Archbishop of Armagh, took place in the Cathedral on Sunday, September 12. Solemn High Mass was celebrated at 11 a.m., Father Bradley being celebrant, and Fathers Forde and J. Murphy deacon and subdeacon respectively. • In the evening his Lordship the Bishop presided at Pontifical Vespers, and the occasional discourse was delivered by Very Rev. Chancellor Holbr'ook. The singing of the "Te Deum" and Pontifical Benediction brought the ceremonies to a close. The choir, under the able conductorship of Mr. Leo Whitaker, A.T.C.L., rendered a special programme of devotional music.

The first barracks to he held at the Sacred Heart College will conclude to-day, after five days of operation, during which the college was controlled by the military authorities, and a syllabus conducted as in a regular barracks. The barracks has been under the command of Captain W. Atwell, with Lieutenant A. W. Greville as Adjutant, and Lieutenant O. P. Coleman as Company Commander. The officers and non-commissioned officers slept under canvas, the main body of the hoys being housed in the college building. The physical side was the main feature of the training, excellent results being obtained by a system of “tabloid” athletics, a method of dividing the hoys into grades, by which the weakest and less efficient receive the most attention. Interest in the games is sustained by competitions between the teams designed to encourage co-operation among the players, as against a self-interested individualism." The" barracks were inspected yesterday by Colonel P. H. Potter, Officer Commanding the District, and the boys were given a lecture in the evening by Lieut. G. Avey, M.C. On the previous evening a lecture was delivered by Lieut. R. S. Judson, A .C. 'Hie success of the barracks was in no small measure due to the assistance of the director of the college (Rev. Brother Benignus) and his staff.