OTHER TRIBUTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 293, 11 December 1929, Page 10

OTHER TRIBUTES.

PRESBYTERY'S SYMPATHY. LOCAL BODIES' EXPRESSIONS. Tributes to the Kite Bishop Clcary were paid at meetings .tiki conferences throughout the city yesterday. Dr. Cleary'a passing was mentioned at the opening of the meeting of the Auckland Presbytery, by the moderator* the Rev. W. D.. Morrison-Sutherland. Bishop Liston, he said, had sent him a telegram informing him that tlie bishop had breathed his last and inviting him to the funeral service in St. Patrick's Cathedral. in his reply, accepting the invitation, he had expressed his sincere sympathy. The sincere and deep regret of the Presbytery at the passing of Bishop Clcary and its sympathy with Bishop Liston arid his clergy and people, was recorded in the minutes of the Presbytery. A letter of condolence to Bishop Liston was agreed upon by the Auckland Harbour Board. "Bishop Clcary was a very broad-minded man and had the respect of all denominations and classes of the community," said tlie chairman, Mr. M. H. Wynyard. Dr. Geary's death was also mentioned at the meeting last evening of the Mount Roskill Road Board, when the chairman, Mh E. F. Jones; said that Dr. Cieary had endeared himself to the people from AuCklarid to Dunediiij especially by his good Work among the poOr and needy. The late Bishop's efforts in the backblocks we're referred to by Mr. Donald. All the other itieliibers of the board spoke sympathetic*!]}'} and oh the ihotion of the chairfnaii, the sentiments of the board were expressed in a resolution to be forwarded to the authorities of the Roinah Catlidlic Chili'ch, expressing sincere regret at .the loss of the head of the Auckland Diocese.