PRESENTATION TO FATHER COONEY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7, 15 February 1900, Page 5

PRESENTATION TO FATHER COONEY.

\t the ( oivhision of the ordinary business at the meeting of the Asiiburuin ( .uholic Literary Society last week the members took the opportunity of saying larewell to their spiritual director, Rev. Father Cooney, und presenting him with a travelling bag as a mark of tlmr estt em. the occasion being his approaching departure for Kumiira, -Mr. L. Ilanrahan (says the Mail), who made the presentation, spoke at considerable length in regard to the sterling (]u Cities of the rev. gentleman, and also thanked him most heartily tor the assistance he had given the Society in various ways during 1 his period m Ashburton, and he felt certain that Father Cooney would be missed in Ashburton and by no one more than by the Literary Society. On behalf of the Society he wished Father Cooney long 1 life and happiness in his new home. Rev. Father Cooney, in a brief speech, thanked the members one and all for the handsome present given him. He stated that his work in connection with the Soc'ety was a labour of love, and he wa" exceedingly sorry that want of time had prevent* d him from devoting more of his services to the Society. He urged them to work together and make the Society a credit to Ashburton. The rev. gentleman again thanked them tor their present and after a ge.ieral handshaking with their beloved priest the meeting closed. The Rev. Father Cooney left on Thursday There was a large number of friends and' others at the st»tio'i to sco him off.