TENUI NOTES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 21 December 1912, Page 5

TENUI NOTES

\ PRESENTATION TO DEAN J McKENNA. i(Our Own Correspondent.) St. Patrick's Church, Tinui, w<hs crowded on Sunday by the parishioners of the Very Rev Dean McKenna, who presented him with an address and a purse of sovereigns. Mr J. R. Brown, as chairman, referred to the manifold and sterling qualities of the Dean, who, during a quarter of a century, in fair or foul weather, never hesitated in fulfilling his duties as a clergyman and a citizen. In the .Dean the congregation had a strict, but eminently just, pastor, one quicker to comfort than to condemn, and to whom every member of the parish, young and old, rich and poor, could confidently appeal to for sympathy in his spiritual, and even temporal troubles. Bo had by his attitude of goodwill and mind endeared himself to all denominations. Mr J. MoG-ann, Annedale, in a re- > trospeet of the difficulties that had to be contended with in the matter of bad roads in the early days, paid n tribute _to tho splendid physique ■Mid tenacity of purpose which characterised tho Dean, during his mission of over a. quarter of a century in the VMa.oferton parish. Bo only echoed the wishes of the other members ->f the 'VM-isb when be said be trusted +be Dean Mould bo spa ml to them for at least another twenty-fr-e yea m. Mr Edward Collerton read the following address, signed bv a numb'?of if.b« conoregation. and presented the D<\';n with' a . purse of twenty-one sovereigns:— "TO THE VERY REV. DEAV McKENNA. P.P., MASTERTON. "Revd. and Dear Sir.—We, your I parishioners of Tinui, together with your many friends throughout tho district, caoinot allow the twenty-fifth year of your ministration to this parish to pass without expressing in a public manner, the feeling of de-y.i respect and affection we have always entertained for you ; feelings widen we assure you shall ever remain unaltered. Wo have felt that in you we have a pastor to whom all our concerns, interest?, joys and sorrows "•ere matters of personal interest. Wo now acknowledge with gratitude all the helu, -sympathy, and.-counsel von have -riven us in the various vicissitudes of life. It is due to your untirin-r ;-.>;,] imc ] ao ] e administration 'that the chr.-eh in which we are todav is in such an excellent condition, both, financially and otherwise. In /conclusion your parishioners trust J that God may spare you for many vears to come, and also that you" health and strength' will never fail that you may enjoy length of days to preside for many years over tin's little church in Tinui—(Signed) W. , T. Collerton. F. Kelly, J. McGa'm, ! John Powell. X. o'K*me, T. O'Con- | nor. ,T. R Prown W. R. Collertor, ' Pet?r K?l!y." ! . Dean McFenna, in replying, sa'd that, he would b e devoid of the finer j feeling of human nature if ho were not touched and delighted with chat .mnrrniP-'oii 4 - manifestation of a peonies affection and stood will. At-a ' "inn'hi'' in Masterton reoerr- '<- l,n i in /i -.,;.7 f Mn t there W ere times whop 'v-iivis failed to express what <;.! i« wished to eonvev, and he would civ the snmn that day. He desired to thank the good, people of Timii and surroundings for their tangible expression of good will, and instanced , the frietidshin of half a Jono: Hfe- + bnr. "j;i«tino- botweop himself and Mi- W. T. Collerton and family.