Ponsonby

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 4 June 1908, Page 14

Ponsonby

(From an occasional correspondent.) At the close of the service in the Sacred Heart Church, Ponsonby, last Sunday evening, the members of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, Newmarket, presented the Rev. Father O'Donnell with a valuable souvenir, suitably inscribed, as a mark of gra.titude for his generous donation of the proceeds of his recent lecture on ' Ireland.' Later, Father O'Donnell received the following letter from the president of the society :—: — ' Dear Rev. Father O'Donnell, — Through the kind offices of Rev. Father Doyle, I received your letter and your very generous donation to the funds 'of our society. I thank you sincerely for your most open-handed gift, and I can only say that the great interest you have taken in our Conference and its work shall give us additional courage to persevere in striving to carry out the good .works laid down by the rules of our society. I am, dear Rev. Father, yours sincerely, William Fallon (president).'