LATE DR. THOMAS CAHILL

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 55, 28 November 1921, Page 7

LATE DR. THOMAS CAHILL

TRIBUTE TO HIS MEMORY.

A tribute to the memory of the I.te Dr. Thomas Cahill, a well-known Wellington medical practitioner, was paid by his frienils on Saturday, on the occasion of the completion and consecration ot his monument at the Karon Cemetery. Tho religious service was read by the Bev. Father Smyth (Administrator of the deceased’s late parish). Air J. J. McGrath, before calling on Mr. R. A. Loughnan and Sir James Carroll two of the deceased’s oldest friends, to remove the veil, thanked the Public Trustee 'for allowing the deceaseds friends to permanently record on the monument their tribute "so richly merited by him who while hero laboured so unceasingly and with such among the poor.” And he was ripaid by their love. He was supremely a cood man, whose never-ending chanty would be recognised toriay by none more readily than the poor and afflicted Sdr. R. A. Loughman said so much real n-ood had been done by the oeceased during an all-too-short life that ,. . doubted if much could h“vo been left to inter, in this sacred spot. Deceased was what t'heir tribute said of bim-a pa riot, a distinguished member of h s profession. and a true Christian gent eman Removing the veil and Poin ing io tb° Inscription, he continued: What n.oio can I say than that three years after his death this large of Im friends were more satisfied than ever that he- was worthy of this tribute—"A lover of his country. . (> "An ornament to his profession. "A friend to the pc-or. Sir James Carroll delivered an eloquent and impressive address. ac ™ g the monument and addressing tho d ceased, he said: “Thy death was a sad blow to us but thy memory is heie enshrined ta words that are no eraggeration of thy worth What worthie example can .we emulate than the Sim nlicity honesty, and charitv which justified this tribute to thino iminorta memory. Thy life has shown how much ™od cln bo done by the profession of which thou were in the truest sense a distinguished and modest whose aims had such real value in t •mod resulting to the community. 'Among the barge gathering we e:Tlie Commissioner of Police, the Pub-ic tee tho Clerk of Parliament, repiesenst. a>l*. St T.rnWl, ■■>. n. B. Parland, IT. F. McCabe 11. Mmltana wav T. B. Dwan, P. Galvin, J. AK I ai land H. Eccles, G. Hayden E. Divan, J Coyle J. Breen, and several ladies. Tho monument .was erected by deceased's relatives m Ireland. It is in flTform of a chaste Celtic cross manufactured from Italian marble.