OBITUARY

New Zealand Tablet, 28 December 1911, Page 2667

OBITUARY

MR. PATRICK NOLAN, MAORI HILL.

Sincere regret was felt on December 17 when it became known that Mr. Patrick Nolan had passed away at his residence, Cunnington road. Mr. Nolan had been in declining health for many months, and endured his sufferings with true Christian fortitude and resignation. During his long illness he was attended by the Rev. Fathers O'Neill and Corcoran, and he died fortified by all the rites of the Church. A Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of the deceased was celebrated at St. Joseph's Cathedral on Tuesday morning, after which the remains were interred in the Southern Cemetery. The Rev. Father O'Neill officiated at the graveside, and two old comrades, Messrs. Brennan and. Mulholland, acted as pall-bearers. The late Mr. Nolan was a native of Athy, County Kildare, and in early manhood spent some years in the Royal Irish Constabulary, where so many able and respected colonial police officers received their early training. He was attracted to Victoria, and before joining the police force of that colony, he engaged for some time in gold-mining. He left the Victorian police to join the New Zealand force, in which his upright character and thorough knowledge of his duty soon secured him the charge of stations far from headquarters. He had charge at Clyde, and afterwards at Naseby, but he will be best remembered for his many years of service at Woodhaugh, in the north end of Dunedin, from which he retired some years ago on superannuation. The late Mr. Nolan leaves a widow and grown-up family to mourn their loss.—R.l.P.