Rangiora

New Zealand Tablet, 10 March 1921, Page 28

Rangiora

(From our own correspondents

March 5.

Mrs. J. Catherwood, who has been unwell for some time past, is now convalescent. We hope to see her in her usual good cheer very soon. Miss Gerty Kennedy, who has been spending an enjoyable holiday in the sunny south, is back with us again, and feeling Very well after her trip. Rev. Father Fogarty joined Fathers Long, Shore, O'Regan, and Bonetto at Christchurch. They left for the Coast on last Tuesday morning. Many friends were on the station to wish them a kind farewell.

Rev. Father M. J. Fogarty, who has been in charge of our parish during the absence of Very Rev. Dean Hyland, and lately appointed parish priest of Ahaura, on the West Coast, left to take charge of his new parish last Monday. He was farewelled by the Rangiora people after last Mass on Sunday, and presented with a well-filled wallet, Messrs. J. Catherwood and J Fitzgibbon making the presentation on behalf of the devoted parishioners. Father Fogarty was also the recipient of a beautiful silver-mounted walking-stick from the sodality of the Children of Mary, and a splendid motoring rug from the pupils of the Convent School. He was also presented with wallets by the good people of Oxford, Loburn, and Kaiapoi. During his short stay at Rangiora Father Fogarty endeared himself to every soul, and by his kind and genial disposition Avon the affection of his parishioners, and his departure from our midst is much regretted. That every blessing may accompany him in his new sphere of labor over the hills is the sincere wish of all.