 He was Auckland's first New-Zealand-born priest.St Peter's School continued (largely, by then a primary school) until the Marist Brothers established their own school on the site in 1885.Walter Steins Bisschop S.J., third Catholic Bishop of Auckland (1879–1881) thought, that as they were a French congregation, the Marist Brothers might not be welcome in Auckland and that it would be better to invite the Irish Christian Brothers as most of the Catholics in Auckland were Irish.