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21 General Sir Sheffield Dixon, and grand-daughter of the sixth Marquis of Lothian, had served in the Scutari Base Hospital and was destined to f'Dund the first convent in \Vellington in July, 1861. On ( 1) December 8th, 1861, Bishop Pompallier blessed the foundations of the present I\.fother House Mount Street, Ponsonby, and wrote the following to .B 1 ather Therry of Sydney: " ••• The Sisters of Mercy (have) a part of Diocesan ground of' eighteen ( 18) acres in extent near Auckland t t-self for religious, charitable, and educational purposes, v i"Z.: for their parent convent in the Diocese, for a Hospital, and for their vast establishments of boarding-schools in favoul' of bother races, 'whites and native' of this countl'Y• The intended establishment, not yet built, shall cost very likely between three and four thousand poUnds •••• To build it) I depend .on the charity of the faithful, and upon the assistance of God in His paternal providence. 11 In 1852 the care of native children was handed over to Dr. Pmpallier' s new· Order c ed the Holy F'ami ly. Thie Order did not survive the shop's departure, and his niece, who was its Superior returned with him to Frsnce. Yet the existence of this Order is of historical interest for tvvo reasons. Maori race who were undoubtedly take the veil. (2) It included several members of the first liaori women to In that Order also we first meet the noblehearted Suzanna Aubert who, before founding the Order of the Sisters of Compassion, spent nearly a quarter of a 1 • Ibid. p • 1 9. 2., 11 Zealandia" (M. Goulter). November 18th, 1937.
22 century among the natives, teaching the children and assisting the sick and aged. The Sisters of Mercy vvere devoted to the Maoris from the very start. ( 1) For Maori women who had to travel to Auckland in order to dispose of their vegetables and fruit, Mother Cecilia opened a house of hospitality with the idea of protecting them from dangers to which they might find themselves exposed in undesirable boardinghouses. The Sisters were often impressed with the heroic virtue of the native girls under their care: ( 2) 11 0nce," writes Mother Cecilia, 11 as our orphans and native girls were walking on the shore, one of the children clirnbed a rock overhanging the sea; hel"' foot slipped and she fell down s .~me yards, and grasping some shrubs, scPeamed for help. The·situation was terrific; a priest and a settler looked on shuddering. But one of the native children leaped like a deer down fror.1 the rock and seizing the almost breathless child, bore hel" in triumph to her companions. 11 Mother Cecilia's constant solicitude for the ~~laoris awakened in them a lively gratitude and. gave her such influence over them that a few words from her often made peace between hostile tribes. (3) On one occasion when tv1o rival tribes were on the point of attacking each other, t1other Cecilia sent them, by a friendly native, a flag on which was worked a dove beari an olive branch under which was inscribed the message .- "The sacred girls beg the 1 • 2. 3. "Leaves from the Annals" 11 Leaves fran the Annals" Ibid. p. 607. Vol. 11 .. p. 615. Vol. 11. p. 605
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