DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 8, 21 February 1924, Page 31

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

All the dignitaries from overseas are now converging on Wellington to be present at the celebration of Archbishop Redwood’s Golden Jubilee. Dunedin will be represented there by several ladies and gentlemen, while two Directors —Rev. J. Delany and Mr. J. J. Marlow —and the Editor and Manager will offer the Tablet's homage to the venerable Metropolitan. Episcopal visitors are numerous among us this week. From Queenstown arrived Archbishop Barry and Bishops Foley, Shiel, and Hayden, while from the north on the same day came Archbishops Duhig and Spence and Bishop Heavey. The visitors are delighted with New Zealand, but some of them thought the weather cold in Dunedin in midsummer. If they only knew what specimens we could show them about August! Monday last was the fifty-third of the arrival of the Sisters,'of St. Dominic in Dunedin. Her old and new friends will be pleased to learn that “Foundation Day” this year found Mother Bertrand, the solo survivor of the gifted and devoted company who arrived from Ireland in 1871, still blessed with excellent health, and that her zeal and activity seem to be unaffected by time. The Floral Carnival in aid of St. Michael’s School, Mornington, after a successful run of seven nights at the Victoria Hall, was concluded on Monday, and resulted in the aims of the promoters being more than realised. The “popular flower girl” competition resulted as follows: Pink Rose Stall, Miss McKenzie 1; White Rose Stall, Miss Dawson 2; Golden, Rose Stall, Miss Dunne 3; Red RoseStall, Miss Rodgerson 4. The Rev. Brother Hickey, from the Christian Brothers’ Novitiate, Sydney, is expected in Dunedin in a few weeks. It will he remembered that on the occasion of Brother Hickey’s last visit to Dunedin, a fine company of Dunedin boys followed him to Stratfielch Some of them are now members of the congregation,, the others are to be received in March. Visitors from New Zealand to the beautiful home of the Brothers in Stratfield say that the Dunedin boys are the pride of the Juniorate, and they look forward to the time when these young missionaries will return to New Zealand bringing with them their message of learning and Faith to their countrymen. The Superior of the y lined in community will be glad to receive the names of respectable and pious boys and youths with the desire and other requisite qualifications for the religious life in the Christian Brothers’ Institute, so that those accepted may be ready to return to Sydney with Brother Hickey in March.