Invercargill

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 30, 16 July 1924, Page 31

Invercargill

(From our own correspondent.) July 11. The Bluff-Canipbclltown congregation has for some months been organising a bazaar in aid of the local Dominican Convent. It has come off with results pleasing to those engaged in the work. The mayor of the town opened the fete with congratulations to the stallholders for the manner in which they loaded their stalls with so many useful and pretty things, and asking the public who filled the hall to patronise the lady stallholders generously. He was sure this would be done as Bluff never , failed to respond to appeals of the kindno matter how often they were made. He was certain that ladies so popular as Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Butler, Mrs. Bradshaw, Mrs. - Magnell, Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. Fletcher, Mrs. Kelly, and Mrs. Heads, not to mention Mrs. Finnerty. The heroine of many such battles, now 80 years old, and still active and strenuous, would make this effort a success surpassing all previous ones. Such it turned out to be. Messrs. . Butler, Me Nish, and Gilroy supervised the heavier part - ; of the work and the entertainment, department. ;-. As for

the actors, and lady; chanteuses and daivscuses both great and small, brunettes and blondes, Maori and Pakeha — they kept the hall, with color, song, and movement, a scene of life and gaiety all the time. Mr. A. Robertson the secretary, who suspended his own work for a week and devoted his whole time and energies to the bazaar, received all-round congratulations for his attention to every detail and for, the smoothness with which the whole show went on. ~People- congratulated him on being an apt successor to Mr. Charles Tulloch in the ticklish, worrying work of managing a large number of people, old and young, male and female, of pleasing the. lot and of utilising their diverse abilities to work harmoniously for the common aim. The new school—St. Mary’s Boys’ Schoolis now completed as far as the building itself goes. The grounds require putting in order, the wet winter weather prevents much being done in that way; but when drains and walks are. finished Invercargill will have, the local newspapers say, about the best finished and most up-to-date school in the town. We have had an exceptionally fine summer and autumn in Southland; but now that winter has come Jupiter Pluvius does not forget us. In fact, his depredations on streets and roads are so aggressive that our City bathers have begun to talk of borrowing £25,000 to stop his operations. -