Timaru

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 9, 11 March 1925, Page 30

Timaru

(From our own correspondent.)

March 5

Devotions are being held every evening during March, in honor of St. Joseph, and the Stations of the Cross made on Wednesdays and Sundays.

The national concert, usually held about St. Patrick's Day, has been postponed to a later date on account of the infantile paralysis.

The tennis carnival has been postponed till after Easter.

A local in our Parish Magazine mentions that "Our schools are now quite ready for opening but have perforce to remain closed in obedience to the decrees of the Health Department. Experts who have visited the new boys' school pronounce the lighting and ventilation to be perfect, and there are two very essential features in a school. The heating apparatus has been tested and found quite satisfactory, so that conditions in the school should be ideal. The desks embody the latest improvements, and the blackboards attached to three sides of each room are composed of a specially prepared linoleum and are practically everlasting." The opening ceremony will probably take place just .before the schools re-open. The members of the executive of the Catholic Club were present at the church doors last Sunday to accept the annual subscriptions and donations towards the club. The club deserves the support and encouragement of every person in the parish. All the parishioners should be pleased to see it flourish, and the young men should be eager to avail themselves of its facilities for recreation and mental improvement. There is much to be done in making the club-rooms at St. Patrick's Hall more attractive, and inducing our young people to spend more of their time there. The club, generally, has made splendid progress during the "last three years, and it is earnestly hoped an increased interest will be shown in its welfare. Material improvements are being made, and in the near future the hall and appointments will be quite up-to-date.

The following results are supplied by Mr. P. W. V. Vine, local secretary of the examinations in theory of music, held in Timaru on December 9, 1924. The rudiments and art of teaching results are not yet to hand. Intermediate Division.M. Evans 89, honors (teacher, Miss G. Spring); Olive Green all 89, honors, and Mary Martin (Mips D. Mason, L.A.8.); Eileen Richardson 80

honors (Miss E. Dennehy). Advanced Junior. —Kyi a Townsend 87, honors; C. Wilson 71; M. Hale 60 (Miss D. Mason); M. Baikie 60 (Miss G. Spring). Junior Division.N. Chaplin 96, honors; M. McGrath 70 (Miss G. Spring); M. Pearce 92, honors; F. Cosgrove 66 (Miss D. Mason); V. Dewar 86, honors (Mrs M. J. Read die); M. Russell 64 (Miss E. Dennehy). Preparatory Division. —

H. Campbell 95 (Miss B. Cain); Maurice Crowe 87 (Miss Mason); N. Mcllluraith 75 0 (Miss E. Hoskins). , /Wt. The members of the British Medical Association, to the number of 100, held their annual conference at the Hermitage, where they spent a very enjoyable and profitable week.