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Dominican Sisters of Aotearoa New Zealand : Records of Dominican schools and organisations

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Reference NumberARC-0073CreatorDominican Sisters of Aotearoa New ZealandDescriptionMost of the collection relates to St Dominic's College, Dunedin. The records include admission, progress and withdrawal registers, daily attendance registers, primary school rolls, examination registers and records of surveys, as well as secondary school examination registers, examination results, prize lists, inspection reports and testimonials. Also included are financial records, school diaries, clippings books, and examples of pupils' work displayed at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibitions in 1889-1890 and 1925-1926. Publications, plans and a large collection of photographs are also included.
The collection also includes records of Catholic youth organisations consisting of the Apostleship of Prayer, Confraternity of the Scapular of the Immaculate Conception, Dominican Pupils' Junior St Vincent de Paul Work Guild, Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart, Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Sodality of the Children of Mary, St Joseph's Cathedral Branch, Dunedin. Also included is material relating to St Dominic's College Ex-Pupils Association. There are also a few miscellaneous records relating to the New Zealand Dominican Sisters.
Also contained within the collection are the records of other Catholic schools. These are St Joseph's Primary School (Dunedin), Sacred Heart School (North East Valley), Moreau College (Dunedin), St Catherine's College (Invercargill), St Patrick's School (Lawrence), Dominican Convent School (Lawrence), St Mary's School (Milton), St Dominic's School (Helensville), Holy Cross College (Mosgiel), St Mary's and St Dominic's schools (Northcote), St John's School (Cromwell), St Joseph's School (Queenstown), St Joseph's School (Invercargill) and St Joseph's School (Milton).
Only a small part of this collection is digitised and available through Digital Collections. Information about other items can be found on the Hākena catalogue, through the Library Catalogues link above.History / BiographyIn February 1871, ten Dominican nuns arrived in Dunedin to begin teaching in Roman Catholic schools. Within a few days of their arrival they establis+J86hed Dunedin's first Catholic high school for girls.

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Under 17 tennis team, St Dominic's College

Form 4 class, St Dominic's College

Junior A netball team, St Dominic's College

Prefects, St Dominic's College

Staff, St Dominic's College

Form 5L, St Dominic's College

Form 4L, St Dominic's College

Form 3A, St Dominic's College

Form 6, St Dominic's College

Boarders, St Dominic's College

Legion of Mary with Father Gosano

Debating team, St Dominic's College

Hockey team, St Dominic's College

Library club, St Dominic's College

Drama production, St Dominic's College

Bishop James Whyte with Sunday School children taught by St Vincent de Paul Guild of St Dominics

St Joseph's infants

Art group, St Dominic's College

Interior of St Dominic's Priory Chapel

Science Room, St Dominic's College, Dunedin

Standards 5 and 6, St Dominic's College, Dunedin

Group of girls, St Dominic's College

Art class, St Dominic's College

Boarders, St Dominic's College

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