“Kindly Remember a Christmas Box for Puhoi.”

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 52, 31 December 1924, Page 38

“Kindly Remember a Christmas Box for Puhoi.”

Work Accomplished and Expenditure since 1922. —Painting and refurnishing presbytery; painting and repairing church ;• purchasing a parish hearse and erection of its garage; erecting of new school and convent, etc., at ; i a total cost of £3260. To this enormous sum | those within a ten-mile radius of the Puhoi | church contributed no less than £3090. Out- j side assistance amounted to only £l7O. Now the parishioners are called upon to enlarge jJ\ ; ) their church at a cost of £SOO, as it is hone-/' lessly inadequate to seat more than half the - \ congregation'. In view, then, of the heavy expenditure incurred here within ’.he lost two years, and hearing in mind the enormous havoc wrought in this district by the , recent floods, I, on behalf of the parishioners and i on my own behalf, appeal to the generosity j and charity of your ' readers to assist those I people who have given such ample proof that J they are prepared to assist themselves. All donations gratefully received and kindly acknowledged. Donors of one pound or upwards shall receive a copy of the history of this Bohemian settlement with the author’s compliments. Donations to lb© forwarded to the parish priest, Rev. D. V. Silk, or to the secretary, Mr. W. J. Scholium, Puhoi North Auckland. *