DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 45, 12 November 1924, Page 31

DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

(From our own correspondent.) November 8. Owing to unfavorable weather the Addington garden fete had to be postponed till the first Saturday in December. i Confirmation will be administered at St. Bede’s College, and Sumner on the third Sunday of this month, and at the Cathedral on the Sunday following. A mission, conducted by Rev. Father McCarthy, S.M., at Papanui, is being very largely attended. The enlargement of St. Bede’s College is nearing completion, and the opening has been deferred until early in the New Year. The contract for the building of the school-churches at Beckenham, Riccarton, and Dallington, has been let to Mr. J. McCormick, and will be proceeded with immediately. The new church at Marshlands is nearing completion, and will be ready for opening before Christmas. The design has been finally decided for the new school for the Marist Brothers, Barbadoes Street, and tenders will be called for same in about two weeks’ time. The conference of the ex-pupils of Sacred Heart Girls’ College and their annual Communion will be held on Sunday next, the 16th inst, /