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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 284, 4 January 1930, Page 7

Mr G. T. Petersen, advance manager for Wirth's Circus, has arrived in Napier to make arrangemeAts for a one TUght's season, opening on Saturday, January 25, According to rcports received froin Wellington the launch Ruapani, hui t to the ordcr of Ihe Government at Mellington, for service on Waikaremoana, is practicallv completed and will shortJy he transported to the lake. Fatlier James Monagham M A., of Christchurch, formerlv of Napier, has cone to Australia with the lijtention of taking a 12 months' course m agriculture at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College in New South "YYales. - noted Marist educatiomst, Father Monaghan, wlio is vice-rector at bfc. Bede's College. will commence Jus studies when the college re-opens toi tlie present year in February. When Father Monaghan has completed bis course it is anticipated that lie will take charge of a Marist bigh school at Lismore, now in course of coustruction, and at whicli an agricultural course will he iucluded irt the curriculum well as the ordmary secondary subjects; The school is due to be opened in February of next year. Father Monaghan is a native of bydnev. He received bis secondary education at St. Patrick's College, \Velnngton, and studied for the pnesthood at Greenmeadows, Napier. He was ordaincd at the Basilica m 1911. He then veturned to Australia, and after a sliort period i at St. Patrick s, C'burcli Hill, was appointed to the statt of the Marist Apostolic , School, Montbell Hunter' s Hill, and then to Blessed ' Chanel's Seminary, Mittagong. While cugaged at these institutions Fatlier Monaghan studied at Sydney Universitv, and he took his M.A. degree in 1920. In 1924 Father Monaghan returned to New Zealand, and since 1925 he has been vice-rector of St. Bede's. He is regarded as one of tlie loading educ.utionists of Ihe Marist Orderln Australia and New Zealand.