A GLOWING TRIBUTE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17157, 6 October 1926, Page 10

A GLOWING TRIBUTE

TO MOTHER MARY ALBERT FUNERAL CEREMONY (Per Pres? Association,) WELLINGTON, last night. Wellington yesterday paid a tribute to a great woman. The- many hundreds who attended the solemn, pontifieial requiem mass for the late YenRev. Mother Mary Joseph Anbert, who died on Friday afternoon last, and the many thousands who lined the streets as the funeral cortege passed on its way to the cemetery at Karon, showed plainly how greatly they appreciated the wonderful work of mercy carried out by Mother Diary Anbert over so long a. period of years. Long before 11 o’clock St. Mary of tho Angels Church in Boulcott street was crowded, and there wore hundreds who were unable to enter for the service. Those present in the church included the Chief Justice (the Hon. C. P. Skerrett), Sir Robert Stout, Sir John Husking, Sir Joseph Ward, Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M. (Senior Magistrate at Wellington), Mr. M. F. Luekie (representing tho Mayor of Wellington ami the City Council), ami Mr. H. Tail (aeting-Town Clerk). After the celebration of Mass, His Grace Archbishop Redwood paid a glowing tribute to the memory of the departed lady, and urged those present lo strive to emulate- the example which she had set.