Timaru

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 7, 18 February 1925, Page 30

Timaru

(From our own Correspondent.) February 13. The proposed tennis carnival has been postponed meantime on account of the prevailing epidemic. At tire Church of the Sacred Heart on the Bth inst., the Litany of the Saints was recited during Benediction in supplication, to preserve the children of the Dominion from the present scourge, and also in behalf of those afflicted. The members of the Glee Club have been busy for some months practising at St. Patrick’s Hall under their able conductor, Air. A. C. Alclnnes. Alost of the members are new to the' work, but arc showing an aptitude and perseverance that spells success. The club is now taking up national music, which it hopes to present at the annual concert in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. It is expected that the majority of the members will eventually join the choir, though a few sopranos and contraltos are required to balance the male voices and to bring the choir up to the desired standard cf efficiency.