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A vos agendas! Mark in your diary Tuesday 14 July for our annual French celebration Fête Nationale
We are pleased to announce that this year's Fête will take place at the Hawke's Bay Club, 53A Marine Parade, Napier from 6:00pm. This is an historic and cosy venue situated opposite the Tom Parker Fountain. There will be a choice for main and there will also be allowance for other dietary requirements. There will be a three course menu(including apero and some table wine) Cost: $85 Members $100 Non-Members To register you need to fill out the "register here" form and pay into the AFHB bank account to secure our booking : "Association Francaise de Hawke's Bay Incorporated" ASB - 12-3145-0286656-00 |
The Old Church's: "French connection" - un lien avec la France
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Un peu d'histoire...
The Old Church was part of the original Marist mission before it moved to the Mission in Greenmeadows. In 1858 French missionaries of the Society of Mary (Marists) planted a small vineyard at Meeanee, Hawke’s Bay, to make table and sacramental wine. They began selling red wine to the public in 1870, and one of their wines – from a mid-1880s vintage – won a silver medal at the 1892 Paris Exhibition. After flooding in 1897, the Meeanee vineyard was abandoned and the brothers relocated to Greenmeadows – where Mission Estate was still producing wine in the early 2000s. This is the 1895 harvest at Meeanee. Sister Suzanne "Mary Joseph" Aubert in Hawke's Bay In February 1871 she responded to a request from the Marist, Father Euloge Reignier, to join his missionary work at Meeanee in Hawke's Bay. A lay assistant associated with the Third Order Regular of Mary in New Zealand, Sister Aubert worked as a teacher, catechist and nurse. She became interested in Māori herbal remedies and, in 1879, published a Māori-language prayerbook and catechism, Kō te ako me te karakia ō te hāhi Katorika Rōmana (1879). Later she was to publish her New and complete manual of Māori conversation (1885) which included general rules of grammar and an extensive vocabulary. (From Te Ara website) |
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