DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 9, 1 March 1923, Page 31

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

The programme committee in connection with the national concert in celebration of St. Patrick's Day report satisfactory progress. The services of a number of our bestknown and most successful vocalists have been secured, and, in other respects also, this year's entertainment promises to be well up to the high standard now expected. The Invereargill Hibernian Band put up a very creditable record at the contest last week of the South Island Bands' Association. In the first selection of the A Grade test, in which eight bands contested, tho Hibernian Band was awarded 2nd place, being six points below the winning band, the Redfern Municipal. In the second selection the Hibernian Band was placed sth, nine points below the "Wellington Watersiders (the winning band); and secured 4th place in the aggregate. Thirteen bands participated in the Quickstep contest, the Hibernians securing first honors; and in the "own selection" competition (the concluding section of the contest) were placed sth. Children of Mary ST. JOSEPH'S CATHEDRAL SODALITY, DUNEDIN. At a recent meeting of St. Joseph's Cathedral Sodality of the Children of Mary, the following office-bearers were elected for the ensuing year:—President, Miss M. Dunn; vice-president, Miss M. Carter; first assistant. Miss E. Knott; second assistant, Miss 11. McQuillan: secretary and treasurer, Miss A. MeC ready; councillors, Misses M. Lynch, A. Brady, and E. MeKenzie ; sacristans. Misses S. McQuillan, E. Stent. S. Metcalfe, A. Thomas. L. Holden, and K. McKenzie; librarians, Misses M. Moloney and H. Dillon. The spiritual director (Rev. J. Fenton) congratulated the members elected to office, and warmly thanked the retiring" office-bearers for their assistance, especially Miss M. Carter who had so admirably carried out the duties of president of the sodality for the past few years. The Orphans' Sewing Guild, Dunedin The ladies of the Orphans' Sewing Guild resume their charitable activities on Thursday, March 8, when their first meeting for 1923 will lie held in St. Patrick's Schoolroom, South Dunedin. At their weekly meetings these selfsacrificing ladies spend the afternoon making useful garments for the boys at Mount St. Joseph and the girls in St. Vincent's Orphanage; their work is highly appreciated by the Sisters in charge of the orphans, and daily thanks are offered by the children in fervent prayers that God may shower His best blessings upon their kind benefactors. Besides the active members, there are honorary members of the O.S. Guild —ladies who are unable to come to the meetings but who are willing to contribute 5/- a year for the purpose of procuring materials to be made up at the weekly sewing meetings by the working members. It., is hoped that there will be a. large increase in the membership this year.