DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 28, 2 July 1924, Page 30

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

Miss Florrie Gardner lias received notice of a transfer from Dunedin to Christchurch, and if she is pleased at the news it is more than her friends down here are. In musical circles Miss Gardner will be long missed by Dunedin Catholics. She was always ready when called on to help forward any Catholic movement, and did not spare her beautiful and cultured voice in the cause of religion or charity. On the concert platform, as in the Cathedral Choir, Miss Gardner used her talents for the glory of God and for the happiness of her neighbors, and Dunedin does not fail in appreciation of what it owes her. Is it some selfish Christchurch man that makes those P.O, appointments? One. would think it is either that or else somebody who does not like Dunedin. Not long ago this miserable wretch took away from us our star baritone, Mi. J. McGrath. Later, he made another raid and carried off one of the props of the North-east Valley parish, Mr. Julius Dunne. As if two were not enough for him, he now demands Miss Gardner, In the meantime we will try to take a charitable view of it. Maybe they want some uplifting people ,in other parts, and if they do Dunedin is of course the place to look for them. ' “Have you been to Pharoah, the Egyptian?” said an inquisitive person to a friend the other , day in Dunedin. > Holy Moses, no I haven’t,” was the answer, as the buttonholed one bolted for a tram and left the notorious inquisitor standing alone in Dunedin’s Via Sacra, which is Rattray Street, of course. All the same there are lots and lots of people going to him, as they will be going to Gypsy Smith later on. Cares? Any amount of them—just as in Hickson’s healing campaign. Just, and just so. Rub your

thumb-nail and your hair stops falling off; get an aluminum comb and prod your jaw with it and your deafness vanishes for ever and ever, amen. Notice 1 said aluminum? That’s they latest American way. Probably an aluminium comb would not cure deafness for nuts. Rumors of a bazaar to help to build a convent for the Dominican Nuns in the North-east Valley are in the air. Everybody says it is not too soon; and what everybody says must be right. The present residence is at least two thousand odd years out of date. The ruins of the Baths of Caracalla are luxurious compared with it. Whether rumor is false or true to her Dunedinites would hardly grudge giving a helping hand in such a good cause. The Dominican nuns have deserved well of the community for over fifty-three years, and not a man, woman or child could have the cheek to say that they have ever asked for anything that they did not earn a hundred times over. In fact so rarely do they appeal for outside help that only for the testimony of the school children and the music pupils a lot of people would forget that they are here at all.