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Early History of St Rita's Early History of St Rita’s 1885 - 1960 Version 1 – 2013 PART IV – coming to Australia and the establishment of St Rita’s College, Clayfield. AUSTRALIA In 1866 a group of four professed sisters and five postulants came from Fermoy in Ireland to Richmond in Tasmania to establish the first presentation convent and school in the southern hemisphere. The first Presentation school in WAGGA WAGGA Australia, located at Richmond, Tasmania In 1874 four sisters from Kildare volunteered for the new mission in http://presentationsociety.org.au/about/our- WAGGA WAGGA, New South Wales, at the request of the Bishop of history/ Goulbourn. Wagga means crow. And Wagga Wagga means plenty of crows! The journey was long and hazardous. They sailed in a steamship called The Northumberland. Five beech trees were planted to their memory in the grounds of the Convent, Kildare. Two of these still stand. KILDARE to WAGGA WAGGA In the early 1870s Father McAlroy was commissioned by Bishop Lanigan of Goulburn to recruit teaching nuns from Ireland for the schools in the Diocese of Goulburn, which then included Wagga Wagga. Father McAlroy visited the Presentation Sisters in Kildare, where they spoke so eloquently on behalf of the Catholic population of the Riverina that some volunteers offered their services for the distant mission. Five Sisters were chosen to bring Christian education to the children of the early settlers, many of whom had left their native oppressed land, so that they might be free to bring up their children in the Catholic faith. M M John Byrne Sr M Xavier Byrne Sr M Paul Fay Sr M Evangelist Sr Stanislaus Kelly Dunne Before leaving for the colony of New South Wales, the Sisters sought an indult (a dispensation granted by the Pope for a deviation in church law) from the Pope to teach not only the poor, but also the children of the wealthier classes. In the country districts of New South Wales the children of the pioneering landowners were often far removed from Catholic, or any education. 1 On 10 March 1874 the five Sisters left Kildare, Ireland. They travelled to Georges Hill Convent, Dublin, where they stayed a couple of days. From Dublin they set off for London to embark from Gravesend on the SS Northumberland for Melbourne and then to Wagga Wagga. On 12 March 1874 they sailed along with some 85 saloon passengers and a little over two hundred second and third class passengers. It was reported that the voyage was “rapid and prosperous”. Some 6500 of the 19,000 km were under sail, so good was the weather. The Northumberland arrived at Sandridge Pier, Melbourne on 6 May 1874. The Sisters spent some time at the Presentation Convent Windsor in Melbourne. The five Sisters left for Albury on 16 May 1874 and whilst there stayed with the Sisters of Mercy for a rest period. On 28 May, they departed in Mr John Cox’s horse carriage for his Mangoplah station home, a journey of some 60 miles. At Mangoplah they were greeted by the Cox family with hearty Irish welcome. Leaving the next morning, 29 May, the Sisters headed for Wagga. They were met twenty miles out of town by a large number of the leading inhabitants of the district, together with the first parish priest, who escorted them into town. They went to St Michael’s Church where the Te Deum was sung and God fervently thanked for the Sisters’ safe arrival. In 1870 Wagga Wagga had been established as a municipality. There were some 2,500 people within its boundaries and about 7,000 in the surrounding districts with about 7,000 acres under agriculture. Initially the five Sisters lived in the presbytery, two small, ill-ventilated cramped rooms, vacated for their use by the priests. The priests found temporary lodging in a hotel until a very kind protestant lady, Mrs Jackson, placed at their disposal, rent free, a house which 2 later became the first Calvary Hospital, Wagga Wagga. The stables were converted into a school for over 130 children. Each day a horse-drawn cab took the Sisters to the stable school where they first taught. This school became known as Saint Mary’s. After many years of persistent ongoing requests from the people of the area, the Bishop finally gave approval for a boarding school to be built. It was ready for its first boarders on 26 January 1890. Applications for admission to the boarding school soon exceeded the accommodation available. New additions were completed and opened in 1892. As part of this extension the High School was named St Eugene’s in place of St Brigid’s as it had formerly been known. (Children of the more affluent citizens attended St Brigid’s upstairs above the original St Mary’s to make it possible for those less well-off to attend school.)With the growth in numbers and requirements of modern facilities, e.g. library and science, the new Mount Erin High School was opened and blessed on 12 September 1938 and extended in 1962 and again in 1972. (http://www.presentation- sisters.ie/content/view/96/121/) 3 WAGGA WAGGA TO QUEENSLAND Foundations in Queensland First in Longreach in 1900 Foundations in Brisbane Herston 1924 Clayfield 1925 Graceville 1937 Manly 1941 Cannon Hill 1947 Norman Park 1948 Wavell Heights 1950 Northgate 1952 Ekibin 1958 Wishart 1973 Rochedale 1975 LONGREACH The Sisters in Wagga were soon known as excellent educators, not only in primary schools but also in the convent high schools they were asked to establish. In 1899 Bishop Higgins from the Rockhampton diocese in Central Queensland, asked the Wagga Sisters to staff a parish school and open a high school, as well as a boarding, school in Longreach. This small town, as it then was, situated 700 km inland and was not marked on any map available to the Wagga community. It was, however, the centre of a very large grazing district at a time when wool was Australia’s chief export. Longreach was developing as a local capital and this new Presentation foundation, independent of its founding house in Wagga, was seen as a Catholic venture both needed and appropriate on the pioneering frontier. Bales of wool drawn by a team of bullocks on dirt road 4 The archives of the Presentation Sisters regarding this venture read as follows: In the late 1800s, the Catholic Diocese of Rockhampton covered a large area of Central and Western Queensland. A railway line was being built out from Rockhampton and those building it, along with their families, would live in tents near where they were working. As the line grew longer, they would move their tents further inland. Sometimes other people would settle near the railway line, set up businesses and a town would spring up. This happened when the line reached a place they named Longreach, and a town grew up near the Thompson River. At that time there were about two thousand people in the town, but many more lived on the stations in the surrounding countryside. 5 There were not many Catholic Priests in Western Queensland in those days and most of them spent a lot of time riding through the countryside on their horses, visiting the people wherever they could find them, saying Mass, celebrating Weddings and Baptising children. In 1898 the Bishop of the Diocese of Rockhampton died and Rev Joseph Higgins was chosen to take his place. At that time there was a Priest stationed in Longreach, Father Hanley and a very active group of Parishioners who helped raise funds to build first a small Church and then a Presbytery. After that they started planning for a school but wanted a community of Sisters who would come to teach the children. Father Hanley contacted Bishop Higgins and he contacted the Bishop of Goulburn who suggested the Presentation Sisters of Wagga Wagga. In 1899 a letter was sent to the Wagga Wagga Congregation, asking if any sisters would volunteer to go to Longreach. From those, five were chosen to go. They tried to find Longreach in the Atlas but it was not marked as it was still quite a new town, just thirteen years old. The five sisters who had volunteered to go to Longreach, left Wagga Wagga on February 1, 1900. The Parish Priest, Father Slattery, accompanied the sisters to help in any way he could. They were farewelled by the other sisters and by the children they had been teaching. While they may have been excited to be going to those who needed them, they knew they would not come back to visit Wagga for a very long time, if at all. They would become Presentation Sisters of Queensland. The journey of about three thousand kilometres began by coal train from Wagga Wagga to Sydney. In Sydney they had to wait for a few days until the steamer was ready to leave. Then on February 5, 1900 they left Sydney in the “Arawatta” and headed for Brisbane. They had to wait in Brisbane for a few hours so a carriage was made available to take them to All Hallows, where the Sisters of Mercy made them welcome. The railway line between Brisbane and Rockhampton was not completed at that time, so the sisters continued their journey up the Queensland coast on the “Arawatta”. On the afternoon of February 11, 1900 they reached Keppel Bay w here they were transferred to a smaller boat for the forty mile journey up the Fitzroy River to Rockhampton. Each passenger was given a cushion as they had to sit on benches for the entire journey.
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