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established st. Joseph's Orphanage at Talcapuna and in 1300
·Nhen the boarding-out system was begun, an industrial school
was opened.
in the following year -~t
Fire destroyed the orphanage in 1923 and
Archbishop Cattaneo and Lord Jellicoe.
was rebuilt, and reopened by
By 1927 the original
eight orphans had given place to hundreds and a new feature,
that year, was the admission of bo·'s of the parish to the
day school.
·1896. st. Leo's, Devon12ort.: 'l'his school, called after the
gl:'eat parent-house Carlow, vVaB
opened by S.M. Peter,
S.l.I. Columba and G.l.I. Stanislaus with a roll-call of
seventy children. The present roll is 125.
1902. St •. Cather~ne's, Waihi: This, the first Mercy Convent
opened in the present century in New Zealand, had for its
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original staff four Sisters, S.M. Francesca, S.M. Ray:mond,
S.M. Frances and S.M. Stanislaus.
It has six Sisters on the
staff now and a roll of 100.
1903. Te Aroha, OUr L~ of Lourdes: From the outlying,
scattered dairy-farms of this district two Sisters, Sister
Mary Patrick and S.M. Columba, gathered. in thirty children
with whom they opened this school in 1903. The roll has
now risen to 188. In 1904 the Sisters opened St. Dominic's
Convent, Gisborne, but in 1915 this convent was talcen over
by the Sisters' of St. Joseph .
.1~ Holu: Cr'oss 2 EJ2som: Three oisters, S.M. Benignus,