Fr Alphonsus Hayes January 1952 - December 1958 another lrishman, was our third Parish Priest, appointed on 25th January, 1952. The great post war immigration was well under way and the Parish was growing fast. Catholic population was now around 1000. Fr. Hayes followed his predecessor into the building site and worked long and hard with the men of the Parish on the second stage of the first school building and the tennis courts and club house. There , may have been an ulterior motive here as he was an "A" grade tennis player. Joyce Capple, his partner in the mixed doubles tennis team, was once heard to pray that if only hecould drive as well as he could play tennis. The second school building was opened in 1957, by now the Parish debt was 10,350 pounds and income around 1000 pounds.

The debt was quite a worry tor Fr. Hayes especially as a new church would soon be needed. A combined funds canvass was started in the late fifties. Volunteers were sent to every home to sign up occupants for the envelope collection. The ladies of the Parish ran the Parish dinner at the Epping School of Arts. The menu is now a collectors item and features something called "Barrington Moulds". Hostess Chairman Mrs K. McGuiness wrote "For sake of the work of God, for the sake of our children, we stand squarely by the men-folk of our Parish in this great movement." How could anyone refuse?