LATE FATHER GILBERT.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20100, 2 December 1930, Page 17

LATE FATHER GILBERT.

A WELLINGTON TRIBUTE. (PBES3 AaaOCIATIOH TBLSGBAU.) WELLINGTON, December 1. Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of the late Father T. A. Gilbert, S.M., was celebrated at the Basilica to-day. Archbishop Redwood and Archbishop O'Shea were present in the sanctuary. The celebrant was the Rev. Father P. Kane, S.M., the Deaoon Father T. Cleary, S.M., of St. Bede's College, Christchurch, the Sub-Deacon Father P. J. Smyth, S.M., and the master of ceremonies, Father J. A. Higgins, S.M. Amongst those present were Professor Rankine Brown, New Zealand University and Victoria College. Mr W. A. Armour, Wellington College, Brother Fergus, Sacred Heart College, representatives of St. Bede's College, the students of St. Patrick's Colit**e, Dr. P. F. McEvedy, president of St. Patrick's Old Boys' Association, and others. Father F. S. Bartley, S.M., said they were not met to mourn Father Gilbert, nor yet with barren words to praise him, but in friendship and gratitude they remembered him there before the Altar of God, and prayed that his soul might be vouchsafed the peace that "passeth all understanding." He waf. a great headmaster, because he threw heart and soul into his work, because he was a man of vision and explored every avenue of possible betterment. The history of education in New Zealand would know few brighter pages than those thnt told of the life work of Thomas Andrew Gilbert. The music was supplied by the choir of St. Patrick's College, and the service was concluded by the playing o f the Dead March in "Saul."