Minnie
Early Dunedin (The Evening Star) was as confused of how Catholic institutions relate to each other as I am
Otago Daily Times , Issue 4492, 12 July 1876, Page 3
ALLEGED LIBEL ON THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY OF DUNEDIN.
F. W. Petrie, architect, residing, in Dunedin inferred, from reading the
Evening Star, that it had mistaken the Dominican Order for that of the Sisters of Mercy. Substituting the Order of St Dominic for the Order of Sisters of Mercy (from which a nun had apparently defected to marry a priest)
2002 photo of priory a listed building
http://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/372Catholic Buildings are - St Josephs Cathedral - St Dominics Priory - St Dominics (now Kavanagh) College are together in the block of Smith St - Rattray St - Tennyson St - York Place. Kavanagh College buildings are above (west of) the Cathedral.
1873 seems to have been the beginning of schooling.
The Tablet was a Dunedin based Catholic Weekly
New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 60, 3 May 1873, Page 4
DOMINICAN CONVENT BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES. THE Course of Instruction comprises an English Education in all its branches, French, German, and Italian Languages and Literature Music, Singing, Plain and Fancy Work, Drawing, Painting, etc., etc. For Terms and further particulars, apply to the LADY SUPERIORESS, DOWLING STREET, DUNEDIN. Visiting hours from 2 to 4 p.m. Private Lessons in the Languages and Accomplishments are also given at the Convent.
Otago Daily Times , Issue 4574, 14 October 1876, Page 3
TENDERS are requested for the Construction, in Brick, of a CONVENT for the Sisters of St. Dominic, in Dunedin. Full particulars at the office of the undersigned. FRANK W. PETRE, Engineer aud Architect, Bond street, Dunedin
Records would be with the School or Diocese (or possibly the Hocken)
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