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necessity ancl llO'Ii/
that tl1ey had tasted the joys of such
travelli , they decided to relinquish them by constituting
Greymouth foundation an independent Convent b
the end
of the year 1882. At once Sisters of s new foundati
on opel}ed a p:Pimary school gir-ls, and boys up
to andarcL i , as l as a high school with bo p r:iwary
an1\ secondary depar·tments.
The present St. Lary 1 s High
School, Alexander Street,. dates 'back to those early days
anci holds an admil'able r~ecorcl
annual successes in
scholastic uusic eire Out-schools were ened
Brunnerton, Cobden a..11d Runanga a total L!-1-~5
C ic children vii:~o are ta~J.[Sht GreyElouth fli ers.
Lyttel ton, ·1890 :_
( 1 ) In 1 Sir> Prederic:·: ·:reld then Prime Lini l
New Zealand, out of l1iD orm 1Jo1.mty presented the Gat ,o' ics
of Lyttelton with a strip
ground for the erection of a
Chul'ch. St. eph' s Chui'ch, now oldest Church in
ocese Chriscchurch, and the olde stone Gimrch in
l'i. Z. vras ·built in ·J 865 a..11d the school erected
staf':i.'ecl vri th lay teachers until ·J 890 when thl'ee Si
v1as
ers of
rcy arrived from Holci tika to take chal'ge
the parish
sc On account of the diffic ties tr•av in those
days, the Lyttel ton Convent from the 1Jeginning \7as made an
independent house ;ai tl1 the of self - gover.nrnent and
s
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1 .. ChUI'Ch il) H.Z. • cit. Vol. ·) L page 104.