Timaru

New Zealand Tablet, 13 April 1911, Page 667

Timaru

(From our own correspondent.) : April 10. The Timaru Dairy Company has practically ceased operations. This is the second dairy company in the district that has been unsuccessful. The members of St. John’s Tennis Club, who have had a very successful season, have accepted an invitation from the St. Mary’s Club, Ashburton, for a match on Easter Monday. The Timaru players are keenly looking forward to the outing, and are expecting a more even match than when these teams met in Timaru on December 16. A representative gathering, numbering about seventy persons, assembled in the boys’ school yesterday afternoon, at the invitation of the Rev. Father Tubman, S.M., to take steps to give the Irish delegates a fitting reception in Timaru. The Rev. Father Tubman opened the proceedings with a short explanation of the object of the gathering, and expressed the hope that the 1911 visit would be as successful as the last one -oyer three years ago. He suggested electing a committee to take charge of all the arrangements. This was at once done, with the following result; — President, Dr. Loughnan; treasurer, Mr. D. Mahoney; executive, Messrs. T. Harvey, M. Mullins, W. Gillespie, J. O’Rourke, T. Cronin, W. Angland, Kane, J. Sullivan, and the office-bearers; general •’ committee, all those present, with power to add. The secretary was instructed to write to, representative men throughout the district inviting their co-operation. A letter was received from Mr. Martin Kennedy (Wellington), stating that the delegates would address a meeting in Timaru, and enclosing subscription lists. The Rev. Father Tubman handed in the initial donation to the fund, £5 5s from the priests of the parish. At a meeting of the executive held immediately afterwards it was resolved to hold a. public meeting to go into the whole question of the delegates’ reception and the collection of funds, and also to give all interested in the movement an opportunity of being present and perhaps helping on one of the committees.