DEAN TUBMAN

Grey River Argus, 18 February 1920, Page 7

DEAN TUBMAN

WELCOME AT HOKITIKA

(Out Correspondent.)

A large crowd of parishioners of Hokitika Parish assembled in St. Mary's Club Rooms to welcome Very Rev. Dean Tubman, the newly-ap-pointed Parish Priest of Hokitika. The Rev. Dean has had charge of the Timaru parish for a. great number of years. Timaru was his first parish and his works there will speak to his rpeniorv as lo^rr as New Zealand i* f fountrv. Ho Tins now <wrn<? to renT?"*" * - • r Tfwr Fntlipr Otar><-y* a*. "PToVitiV?.. !>r>* extended him. Mr Win. Jeffries pvesided, and, on behnlf of the parishioners, extended a hearW West Oonst welcome to the Derm. He concluded his address hv wishintr their guest long life p.nrl happiness in the future to onrrv o? his <rood work. Rev. Father Clancy also spoke, rnrl in a, jovial manner wished Dean TnHr n^n a<? hntmv n time ns he lumsni*had spent in Hokitika.. He could wish f nr no better successor than the Rev. Dean. ' Addresses of w^lco™** xrere nlso <nvpn Tiy Messrs G. WorTnirxrfnr, 5,^ •T. Cahill (P^risliinTiPra of HoVitikaV Mi-'J. S. Ward (gt. Mark's Club nnd Hibernian Soofetv), Mr T\ OnufeW (St. Mary's Choir), pnd Mr J. Hutchison (Parishioner of Kanieri).' Dean Tubm^n. in a very hnnpv stipo^i. thanked his new no T iphioners for thpir -heurtv wflconie. He f&vp «■" JntprosWrip- ncrmint of somo of tho works vf the Timaru Parish. Tn that;'' nnvisli hi* h?<l snpnt the ccrea^rr pavr of bis life, nnd rertainlv enrflfi novotv fnrpffit it. But t]jr> warm he^Ttorlnpsc di~nlavod t-iinf fyreninrr rpa^e Tiirn fpp\ rmi+p ron*v> T i'-e< : l to rpp^pin- in TTolri*-il-'r>. and ho felt' "onviT>p/»»1 lip "hnti Innriori in «i "r\inn coft ,cr»n+.. " He pvr-i-n-i+iiioorl w-ftli Hokitik?, people in losine "Fntlrpr ninncv (1 closp pp^conal fripp^j of bis). Hp wish thnt Fa^ov fiinnp-n pould remain T"i*t]> nim, but faii'i" this, tliov wnulfl look fnrwar'l xri+li r>lesure~*o his annual visit. pronporlines wore brnustbt to n/ rloso vrvh musical honours to the gnost of the evening. Later Father Clsncy and Derm Tubmnn spent p. pleasant hour, tbe one saving a;ood-bye to old friends and the other meeting and ■making new ones.