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The foundation stone of the hall was laid by the
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Supper Room) with the hall also accommodates the university's music students, and other classes when absolutely necessary. Central Hall has undergone restoration in the early 2000s, and was added to the
Victorian Heritage Register in 2003.
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Saturday evening Mass that the Archdiocese had acquired a property on Brunswick Street, a former boot factory built in 1873, which had been designed by architects
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of the early 1970s. T. F. Much
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