DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 29, 26 July 1923, Page 31

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.) ; July 20. The silver jubilee of the Rev. Father O’Hara, parish, priest of Waihi, was celebrated on the 29th ult. Right Rev. Dr. Cleary and Right Rev. Dr. Liston journeyed to Waihi to take part in the celebration". The devotion of the Forty Hours’ Adoration opened at the chapel of the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor,' Ponsonby, on Friday,‘the 20th inst., with Pontifical high Mass sung by his Lordship Bishop Liston. Rev. Father Buckley was assistant priest ; Rev. Fathers O’Connor and Mansfield, deacon and subdeacon respectively; Rev. Father Bradley, Adm., St. Patrick’s, was master of ceremonies, and Father Murphy assistant master of ceremonies. The Mass was beautifully rendered in Gregorian Chant by the Sisters, assisted by some of the members of the institution. On Sunday, July 8, his Lordship Bishop Cleary presided at a , meeting held at Onehunga to consider the proposal to erect a new day school. The parishioners decided to have constructed a building to cost about £4OOO, and to accommodate about 200 pupils. Its completion is hoped for before the end of the year.