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a c1aily attendance of 215.
this SemirH'J.PY town the Sisters of tiercy in Lay
1898 opened t.heir first t3chaol ta which they tl'avellecl
daily by·train 1~1 Dunedin. 'rhe tr·ain sel .... Vice did n
prove satisfactory for their' wor'k ·so it '>'!as decided to
establish a Convent of the t orm. · Pro1~1 'I G u.ntil
·i 912 the c:J.ildren were taught in ·t;he Church but in ·1912,
llev. Fr.~iston then Parish Priest, ( 1 ) pur·cllaseci frol•l the
Losgi ~orough Council a btiil whicil was re ly conv
into an aCI.mirab scJ.1ool. r;U>.ib e·~· of pupils at
present in attenCJ.ance at Liosgiel Convent •3choo1 is· 60.
'.VI:le founclation stone o:L· s chm•i t e institution
vras 1 a few 1.1onths after the ~3isters arr in
Dunedin and received the
rst little orphan
July i 896.
Here ol";Jhan gir:::.a are received even in infancy
and ar•e looked after with suci1 tender solicitude that
many ti:.ern, in later• li , cheris!l ir rtJel!lOl.'ies of
St. Vincent's as .J...· vne 1
na iest their lives. These .::;i
a1·e c aref ly
ated according to the principles of
Catholic r.::1mrcl1 which l::elieves in sendi
the wll:)le child
to school - the art ns well as the mind - so that she
ac Lees ,,a taste fol~ uoins rrood", a taste for· j;~ght living.
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1. C onve Records, Dunedin.
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