Other Brothers who laboured in Dubbo in this period were Brothers Austin McGrath (1891), Columba Reilly, John Lee, Aloysius O'Leary (1890) and Cuthbert Corbishley (novice 1889).

In 1892 the Provincial Council demanded 70 pounds per year for each Brother at Dubbo, and conveyed their intention of closing the school in the event of a refusal (July 3, 1892). As no guarantees were made, the school was closed, the reasons given being "want of staff and school not self-sufficient."

The second chapter of the Dubbo story began nearly thirty years after the first chapter concluded. In 1920, after receiving verbal sanction from Dr Dunne before his death in 1919, it was decided to accept the invitation of the parish priest, Dr Brophy, to open a school at Dubbo.

The school had a secondary department ("Sacred Heart College") and a primary department. It was opened on February 7, 1921. A large crowd of about three hundred attended an official luncheon given in honour of the first visit of the new bishop (Bishop Farrell) to the Dubbo parish and to welcome the Patrician Brothers.

The first Brothers were Benignus Kealy, Fintan O'Neill, and Norbert Phelan. The Brothers opened the school in July.

The Brothers eventually became aware that the bishop intended for Sacred Heart College to become a borading school. Neither they nor the Vincentians, who already had a boarding school in Bathurst, were happy with this. So the bishop made the temporary arrangement that the Brothers' boarding school was not to exceed thirty students for three years. He forbade the Brothers to canvass for boarders in the diocese. At the end of 1921 there were eighteen boarders and a total roll of sicty.

With the closure of the school in Bathurst in 1924, the Brothers were also withdrawn from Dubbo.

(See "Dubbo Catholic Schools 1870 - 1987" by Marie Walkowiak for further information.)