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T.o the newcomers, Auckland presented a noYel picture of 17 town life. Mother Cecilia describes the town of Auckland in 1850 (1) as "singular-looking, partly in a valley and partly straggling up a hill; wooden houses, streets marked, but sparsely strewn with dwellings; grass ever~rNhere. 11 (2) The European population of the Colon.:r ,then totalled about 30~000 of whom 35 per cent wePe in Aucl\:land; 22 per cent in ';'!ellington; 16. 6 per cent in Nelson; 12. 3 per cent in Canterbury; 7. 7 per cent in Otago and 6. L~. per cent in New Plymouth. (3) Of the 105,000 Maoris then in the country more than tv;o-thii'ds dwelt in Auckland while fevver than 2,000 were then to be found in the South Island. The variety of the climate, the character of the e6il, and the nature of the surface-vegetation, largely deteri11ined the distribution of the population so that, while some fortunate, fertile localities could support a fairly dense population, others - paPticularly such as were mountainous or su·bject to heavy rainfall - were c;_ui te uninhabited. The expansion o:f' Northern settlements .was difficult because of the hilly nature of the country, and it took stout hearts and broad backs to clear and burn through the dense forest in order to link by roads the various settlements, and thus enable out-settlers to carry their laboriously-procured produce to some convenient centre 1. Annals, Vol 11. op. cit. p. 607. 2. History of N.Z. (Rusden) Vol. 11 Published London 1882. 3. "The Romance of New Zealand" (Horsley. )
from which it could be exported. 18 Gradually their unflagging industry and the steady increase in population begot new c ondi tionf:~ of life throughout the };;nd, so that J:J!other Cecilia I,·laher could write frm: Auckland - ( 1) "No aristocracy here; all are comfortable. Immigrants are Irish or English." She gives the following tariff of the necessaries of life in Auckland 1850;- 11 GooJ. tea, 1 s. 6d. per pound; sugar, 3d.; beef and mutton, very inferior, 6d.; very good pork; 4d.; butter in summer 1 Od.; and in winter 2 or· 3 shillings; excellent potatoes very cheap. Servants £15 to £20 a year; washer ·women, 2s. 6d. a day; mechanics, 7s. 6d.; labour•ers, 5s. No poverty where there was industry. 11 S~ne years before the Sisters' arrival, (2)Father Petitjean had opened a schooi 11 for the children of inunigrants 11 and with the able assistance of stalwart laymen he pioneered the work of education. Hovvever, (3) it was not until the coming of the Sisters of Mercy, in 1850, that the education of Catholic youth in Auckland became an organi undertaking. In 1850 the Sisters took over Father Petitjean's school, knovm as 11 St. Patrick' s 11 and soon they opened another - a sort of secondary school - dedicated to st. Ii'rancis. Their Schools began with seventy Catholics eight of whom were war-orphans and fi:Lteen Protestants. They also improvised in the :Lirst week and orphan~ 1. "Leaves from the lmnals" Vol. 11. pp. 600-601. 2. "Auckland Times" March 9th 1843 (not signed) 3. "Seventy-fifth Anniversary" (Dr. Cleary) Page 17 •.
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Page 3 and 4: 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS page 1. PREFACE
Page 5 and 6: BIBLIOGRAPHY. 4 1. PUBLICATIONS. 1.
Page 7 and 8: 6 5. PHAf,:PHLJ:TS. Bishop Cleary:
Page 9 and 10: 8 prestige and learning. She died w
Page 11 and 12: 10 from Pope Pius V111 a Rescript o
Page 13 and 14: 12 the siege of Mefeking. The Annal
Page 15 and 16: 14 on his return joul"ney from Euro
Page 17: 16 However, in the interests of his
Page 21 and 22: 20 ( 1 ) 11 re is a specimen of a M
Page 23 and 24: 22 century among the natives, teach
Page 25 and 26: 2Lj. '-'uropean and the natives in
Page 27 and 28: HOTHER CECILIA MAHER. 26
Page 29 and 30: 28 four years later, and with her o
Page 31 and 32: had taught as well as numbers of no
Page 33 and 34: 32 of the high standard of wo:r'k m
Page 35 and 36: 34 established st. Joseph's Orphana
Page 37 and 38: 36 who so loved the orphans. 1926.
Page 39 and 40: liiother M. 38 G::mzaga and I.lothe
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Page 43 and 44: more spac,ious class-roorr.sbecaJne
Page 45 and 46: 43 is a speciality with the pupils
Page 47 and 48: such as Street Days. 45 ST. Philome
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Page 51 and 52: 49 within the reach tr1e working cl
Page 53 and 54: 51 five years ago made Reefton' s n
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M1algamation until ill-health supe1
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71 CHAPTER V1 . When the Hight Hev.
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73 a c1aily attendance of 215. this
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75 e there a convent and school, L1
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