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CHAPTER V1 .
When the Hight Hev. Dr.
ran was trans rred in 1 D70
Grahcnfistown, South Africa to the new See of Dunedin,
secured a foundation of Dorninic an
sters frou Sion
Hill, Dublin wi til whose assistance he openeci the first
Catholic priuary school in the diocese on Pebruary 20th,
1 1 a school a week later. The education of
tile girls of __:une6.in re111ained in cap hands of
t[J.ese indust ous nun:3 until ·1897. In the. L:ay of 1 6
iii s Lordship,
shop Verdon, was consecrated Bishop of
Ltmeclin where he saw the need e ablishin2· an ,.,l,der,
the mern'ber•s of i would carry aut visitation of the
s poor in their· homes as 1 as in hospitals,
woc.lci. t care ox'plwno. th s object in view lle
e d to Hev. her Lo ani acl.S :'~enny \'ill a v;as then
f"3uper'ioress of the Convent of Ler·cy, Jingl on,
.. " ·-~: I''
l'i ::, •. /.
and obtained froL1 !1er already
lete6. Coumunity a group
to lay t!1e foundations af the Order in l~une6.in.
'his
i ant Community unLier leade p l,:other 1.:. t.:a
r~irby,
landed at Port Ciialmers on Sunday, Jannary '17th,
1 897, and were welc or:1ed to ir future home ·Ly IIis
Lordship, Bishop Verclon anci_ the priests of the ::a ty.
For
three days the Sisters were the gue
s of the hospitable
Dominican Sisters who oesto1.'ted on them evel'Y conce
able