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within the reach
tr1e working class and, in necessitous
cases, boys are taken without fees, provision for them being
obtained thrcmgh an annual church collection and through a
donation from the T .G.I'.1cCarthy J?uncl.
St. Thoraas' s is
paPticularly suitable foro delicate b.ys, who after the
first two months of its bracing air, its football, svvil[lming,
cricket, boxing and gardening, feel the full vigour of boyhood
coursing thr.m~)1
their veins.
Mount Carmel, ar;
up-to-eLate primary school at Hatai tai,
was opened by the Sistc.a's in 1930 ·,
is supplied with
Sisters from Hill. Street who travel thence by tra.mcar every
day. The thickly peopled st:cict l.liramar has its
convent school, He>ly Cross, in which four Sisters from
Seatoun teach one-hundred and. forty-tlu~ee
pupils.
In 1936 the Sisters frcm1 Hill Street opened a branch
convent near the parish school in Ar'o Street to provide a
co~venient
residence for the staffs attending the Aro
Street and Brooklyn Schools.
A house in R,Dna Bay v1as purchased
this year also, to serve as a convent foP the Sisters
who teach 1
already, nearly a h1JnU.red pupils in San Antonio,
the old building in which Mass was celebrated until the
building of the present church.
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CHRISTCHURCH. N.Z.