HAWERA.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXII, Issue 17, 23 August 1895, Page 27

HAWERA.

« (From aa occasiooal Correspondent.) On Sunday night after Vespers the choir of St Joseph's met at tbe presbytery for the purpose of making a presentation to the organist, Miss Flynn, who has fulfilled ;the duties for the pact four yearn. Very Rev Father Mulvihill read an address which was as follows : " Hawers, 4th August. AddreßS to Miss Annie Flynn. Dear Miss Flynn,— We, tbe members of St Joseph's choir and a few friends, bare long wished to manifest in some tangible way onr appre. ciationof your services to St Joseph's choir. We thank yon most cordially for the kindness shown us. Kindly allow na to offer you the accompanying souvenir as a small token of onr gratitude. With best wishes for your success dnring life and hoping we may long have the pleasure of your assistance, we remain, mpectfully yours t the choir of St Joseph's and a few friends." Very Rev Father Mnlvibill then presented Miss Flynn with a handsome gold watch with a god fob chain and a gold chrysophare bangle of a very chaste design. The watch bears the inscription, " Presented to Miss Flynn» organist of St Joseph's, Hawera, by the choir and a few frieods August 4, 1895." Miss Flynn, who was very much affected, thanked the members in a few words for their beautiful presents. Very Her Father Mulvihill said be considered Miss Flynn deserving of anything th» choir or congregation could do for her. When he came to tbe parieh some twelve years ago she was only a little girl. He had never had to ask anything of her but she was ready and willing to do it, sometimes at great inconvenience to herself. The Rev Father then said he echoed the hope expressed in the address that they might long have the pleasure of her assistance. Mr Higbam, conductor of the choir, said no presentation could be more deserving than this one. Everyone knew ot the arduous duties of an organist, and never had those duties been more faithfully carried out than by Miss Flynn. Other members of the choir might absent themselves from practice lor from a .whole service, but tbe organist must always be there. He might say that Miss Flynn was like the one in the parable to whom the talent wag given, and who made good use of it, for she was a clever musician and used he talent to the best purpose. Mr Higham also said be hoped that when Miss Flynu's mission on earth was fu'riUed, sbe^ would receive a great reward in the next world. Mr Whitaker said he was an old member of the choir, anJ nothing could give him greater pleasure than the occasion which called them all together that evening. He wished Miss Flynn every happiness. Miss Flynn's health was then proposed by Very Bey Father Mulvihill and drunk by all present, and thus terminated a most enj >yable evening and one which will be long remembered by the choir of St Joseph's. We may add that Miss Flynn comes of a choir family, her two aunts, Mesdamea Djlan and Oonnell having previously buen organists, her mother is.still Ist soprano of tbe choir, a position she has held for the past eighteen years, and her sisters and uncle, Mr T. Hall, are also members of the caoir.