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";er·red for years as the first convent school hex•e.
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st. John's was opened in 1862 by S.M.
s, S.M. de
Chantal and S.M. Ignatius. The present attendance is round
1 oo.
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1 861.+. Joseph's,.Onehunga~ Here S.M. Philomena,
3 .1.!. Veronica and Sister r.larie opened a school for girls in
in 1905 b were admitted. The roll is 263
1866. st. Cecilia I ~Q_tahuhtU This school, founded by
s.J.f. s, S,I,i. Philomena and S.I.I. Scholastica ,, has now
a daily attendance of about 215.
In 1874 the ~)is ters opened
st. Thomas's, Thames, which in 1911 they gave over to the
Sister~
of St. Joseph.
1882. st. I.Iary' ~Q._ramandel__;_ The re site funds for the
bui of this convent were collect by Rev. Fathe:t:>
;,;ahoney, 0. F. M., V. G.
The first Sisters to go there were
S.M. Gabriel, S.Ivl. Barbara, S.B. Alphonsus.
When nurses were
badly needed in Coromandel, Sisters from this convent
attended the public hospital
daily~ anQ when the new public
hospital was built there, in 1896, the Sisters took temporary
charge and lived there until the opening of their
own hlater Hospital in 1900.
1894. st. Joseph's 0r2hanage, Trucapuna: On their arrival
in New Zealand in 1850 the Sisters relieved the r~rarist
Fathers of the responsibility of looking after eight
orphans, children of soldiers who had fallen in the Northern
~aori Wars. In 1894 S.M. Alphonsus and S.M. ~ildred