Oamaru Notes

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 32, 26 August 1925, Page 49

Oamaru Notes

V M HIM I M II iV/O (From our own Correspondent.) August 14. The Catholic Ladies’ Club continues its fortlarge attendance at the various Masses. Members of the sodality of Children of Mary, in regalia, approached the Holy Table. The Catholic Ladies’ Club continues its nightly gatherings, and an occasional public social is held. The last social on the 4th was well attended and everything passed off very successfully. At the fortnightly meeting Mrs. Coleman’s resignation was accepted with regret, she having removed from Oamarn. Miss..l). Meehan was elected to fill the secretaryship. At the recent Competitions the pupils of Miss Maud Cartwright, L.T.C.L., did remarkably well. Twelve firsts and one second were recorded to their credit. Father Fenelou took occasion on Sunday last, to urge upon the men of the congregation who are not already members the advisability of joining the Hibernian Society. Not only did the society foster loyalty to faith and country but its material benefits were of great value in time of sickness and accident. He referred to the financial strength of the branch in Oamaru, and urged all young men to join without delay. Dr. Kelly’s Notes of Travel in the Tablet of July 29, must prove of absorbing interest to the many Catholics of the 36th Reinforcement who did the journey so graphically described by the observant editor. How the names revive old friends and bring back familiar scenes to mind! San Remo, Ventimiglia, Bordighera, Mentone, Monte Carlo, etc., will he• familiar, and their happy/ people who gazed so curiously at the New Zealanders’ strange uniforms and tried J to make themselves understood will be I recalled. But the language prevented friendly conversa-

turn/ One little Irish-Colonial corporal/ who 7. ’ -i* at i: j , % , ■ ■., - --r evidently had once been an altar boy, how- . ever, seemed to "have solved the difficulty, ' at least to his own satisfaction, by x singing out" to the Italians, “Dominus Vobiscum”