This week in history: November 14, 1924
Murray Bridge's Catholics plan a school of their own, a strawberry fete is held at East Wellington and a man is arrested for forging a cheque.
From the archives of the River Murray Advocate, November 14, 1924...
Murray Bridge Catholic Church
The annual fair in connection with the Murray Bridge Roman Catholic Chuch was opened on Thursday by the Reverend Father McNamara, who was previously priest in charge of the parish.
Father McNamara said it was essential that (the parish) should have a school of their own for the education of Catholics.
In the case of the training of the children to be good Catholics, they required their own schools where they could have that good religious atmosphere which was the keynote of their faith.
For that reason it was desirous to bring up their Catholic children in their own schools, and at their own expense, as in those schools they would drink in the tenets of their faith and imbibe in the daily life of the school.
