OAMARU NOTES

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 5, 4 February 1925, Page 49

OAMARU NOTES

(From our own Correspondent.) 4 January 29. Two of our local Catholic girls (Miss M. Cooney and Miss M. Curran) who are jiow employed at the Christchurch Hospital, pas-; sod the State nurses’ examination held re- : cently, are to be complimented on their success. His Lordship Bishop Whyte, who is becoming quite a frequent vsiitor to North Otago, no doubt attracted by its genial skies and bracing atmosphere, paid us another, visit last week. His Lordship put in a strenuous Sunday, celebrating both Masses at the Basilica, giving a brief instruction in the morning at 8.30 Mass and delivering twosermons —one at midday Mass and another in* the evening, St. Joseph’s schoolroom was pencilled for an address on “Lourdes” byBishop Whyte, on the following Monday night, but the unfortunate accident resulting in Father Marlow’s death, necessitated the lecture being abandoned for the time being, and the Bishop’s hurried return to Dunedin. , y When everything on the farm looked lovely a couple of mouths ago North Otago reckoned on a bumper harvest, but several pesky things have come along -o a cep -he farmer awake o’nights bewailing his unhappy lot. The pessimists say that what crops the heavy rain has not flattened and spoiled the caterpillars are feasting on; what;, the Hessian fly missed the rust has destroyed, and what escaped these pests, “takeall” has helped itself to. But despite all; the wailings of lugubrious individuals some; excellent yields are recorded all over the dis-; triots. , Monsignor Mackay, Fathers Fenelon and Ardagh, left during the week for the annual Retreat of the priests of the diocese. Despite his burden of years, the Monsignor continues to scorn the delights of ease and lives laborious days frequently entailing long motor journeys. Oamaru was invaded a week or so ago by some 1300 residents of Waimato and district. The picnic committee were de- : lighted with our town as a., picnic resort,’ especially with the public gardens; so, too, were the picnickers. Everything was done to make our neighbors’ sojourn pleasant. The local Friendly Societies’-(including the H.A.C.B. Society) held their annual picnic recently at the adjacent seaside town of Timaru, about 45 miles north of Oamaru. Some 1200 people made the excursion and all were delighted with Caroline. Bay and its environs.