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OBITUARY

MR. FRANK McMANUS, KKETAHUNA.

(From a correspondent.)

There passed away on August 8, at his residence Eketahuna, North Wairarapa, after a short illness, Mr. Frank McManus, an old and highly respected resident of the district. He had been engaged in farming pursuits for many years. The late Mr. McManus was born in Kilnakelly, Co. Fermanagh, Ireland, and came out to New Zealand when a young man. The deceased was a fervent Catholic and true-born Irishman, and all through his life a fearless advocate of the national rights of his country. He was a subscriber to the Tablet, and looked forward every week with great eagerness to its arrival. The interment took place in the Eketahuna Cemetery, Rev. Father Kennedy (who attended him in his last illness), officiating at the graveside. The funeral was largely attended, showing the respect in which the deceased was held in the whole community. He leaves a wife and family of six to mourn their loss. The sons are Messrs. F. and L. McManus of Eketahuna, and J. K. McManus of tho Public Trust Office, Auckland, and the daughters are Miss McManus of Newtown school staff, Wellington; Nurse McManus of the New Plymouth Public Hospital, and Miss Marjorie McManus of the staff of the Eketahuna school. —R.I.P.

MR. MICHAEL MAHER, WELLINGTON.

/ (From a correspondent.) There recently passed away peacefully at his residence, Thorndon Quay, Wellington, another of the fast disappearing band of old settlers, in the person of Mr. Michael Maher. The late Mr. Maher had attained tho age of something like 87 years, and up to a short time- of his death retained mental faculties, rarely met with at his time of life. He, his mother, two brothers, and a sister, were amongst the very early settlers at Wellington, which then was very little more than a Maori village, and experienced all the hardships and vicissitudes incidental to early colonial life. The deceased was a very fine man, and a practical Catholic, and had assisted the Church in many ways, especially in the old St. Mary’s Cathedral days, then under the late Right Rev. Dr. Viard, S.M., and the early Marist Fathers. He, too, in the sixties, along with John Bowerman, Francis O’Sullivan, Robert Kane, Richard Duignan, John Sheridan, Edward Gibbs, Salvadore Cimino, Thomas Hodgins, Nicholas Reid, James Weight, Mathew Segrief, Edward McDonald, Reginald Vincent* and others assisted to establish the St. Mary’s Catholic Young Men’s Society of that time, under the presidency of the late Father M. L. Cummins, S.M., having for its object weekly Communions, a good library and weekly meetings of its members for recitations, readings, and original composition by its members. Mr. Maher’ too, was of late years a member of the Thorndon committee of the Catholic Federation. His funeral which was a private one, by desire, took place at the Basilica.—R.l.P.

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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLVIII, Issue 35, 1 September 1921, Page 13

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OBITUARY New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLVIII, Issue 35, 1 September 1921, Page 13

OBITUARY New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLVIII, Issue 35, 1 September 1921, Page 13

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