PALMERSTON NORTH NOTES

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 8, 4 March 1925, Page 19

PALMERSTON NORTH NOTES

"\ (From our own Correspondent.) .;' :" • February 27. •; 'There are quite a number of Catholics in the : hospital at;. the present time. Air. Coomj.Vjj.Mr. Michael Hurley, and Mr. Morgan O'Brien, jun'., being-amongst the patients.

Auckland " recently said ‘good-bye to Mrs. Gordon Hillyer. Auckland’s loss is Palmerston’s gain, and Mrs, Hillyer has joined our choir. It’s glad we are to have her.

.The'members of the church committee are busy .folk now preparing for the opening of tho church. Palmerston is blessed with good strong, “church pillars”; and they’re burning the midnight oil these days—or nights.

v “'What comfortable-looking seats! quite arm-chair looking!” said a parishioner to his reverence last week, as two long- scats for our new •- church arrived per motor lorry r “Comfortable, did you say was the reply. “Wait until I go into the pulpit and get one of my long fits; that will be the lest.’’ But. the parishioner is convinced that even in the case of a long fit the scats will emerge victorious. '.

Our St. Patrick’s Night entertainment (his year, as last, will take the form of a euchre atyl dance. This function will he the “(bin end of the wedge” for euchres will be bold fortnightly thereafter. The social committee has brightened up its harness and slipped it on again. After last year’s strenuous campsjgn one would have thought that the members had had enough hard work to last them a. lifetime. When they went into retirement, at the close of the year their altitude was; “Ready t-o conic up if called upon.” One admires their pluck and wishes them success. Praiso and good wishes are all very well : hut it’s co-operation and shillings that count..

On Wednesday night ladies big and ladies little gathered at the presbytery for a meeting. It wasn’t open to the press; but things like; this floated out through Ihe keyhole: “Stalls, side-shows, when and where shall we hold it? and for what length of time?” and so on. One would have to he very dense not to catch the drift of the conversation. So

those ladies (aided and abetted by the clergy of the parish) have caught that awful disease “bazaaritis” ; and you may he sure they’ll leave no stone unturned until they have infested every man, woman, and child with the microbe. There’s no dodging the business ; it isn’t the slightest hit of good to talk about “precautions” and “preventives” ; because this complaint “gets’’ one in the pocket and not in tin? spine. Another bazaar —hard work, unpleasant work, worry, sacrifices many and varied —for what? For the new church of which each one speaks so glowingly I “If our appreciation is not in word only, hut in deed and in truth, we'll he amongst the bazaar workers from liovv on.