Thanks to the zeal of the missionaries, the number of catholics was rapidly increasing, and the two Mission posts of Matjieskloof and Nababeep were no longer adequate for the needs of Western Namaqualand.
Bishop Simon applied to the Colonial Government for a property at Port Nolloth. Through an influential official of the O’okiep Copper Company, Mr. T. Crowley, a piece of ground was given free of charge to the Catholic Church of Namaqualand, with a clause that it
would be used only for the establishment of a Catholic Mission, and that it would never be sold to others.
A four-room house which would serve as the priest’s residence and a few outbuildings were immediately put up. Father Waugh, recently ordained, Started work in this Mission with the zeal and enthusiasm of youth.
Fr Dougherty osfs 
Fr hartlove osfs
Here we are in a region of contrasts.
“All around them are diamonds; all around them is poverty,” says Carel Birkby. In the midst of rich diamond fields lies the poor little shanty town of Port Nolloth, whose boom days are passed. The climate is dry and the vegetation meagre and colourless. The Crayfish canneries which did their best to keep the people alive have closed down and many families have gone elsewhere to seek work and Sustenance.
All through the years, hardship and an almost unceasing struggle of the generous missionaries, Father Joseph Marechaux, Father Leon Veillet, Sister Anne de Sales, Foundress of the Mission, and our unforgettable Sister Madelaine-Raphael who surely lives on in the heart of every Oblate Sister who knew her. Father Harlove followed zealously in the footsteps of this predecessors at this Mission.