Palmerston North

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 12, 22 March 1906, Page 20

Palmerston North

(From our owb correspondent.) March 18. St. Patrick's Day passed off very quietly in Palmerston, numbers attending at Holy Mass at 9 o'clock in St. Patrick's Church. The usual St. Patrick's Day sports were held at Raumai and at Awahuri, and were largely attended. We are about to lose the services of Bro. Stephen John Barry, V.P. of the Hibernian Society, and delegate to the Friendly Societies' Council, who has been promoted by the Railway Department to New Plymouth. Bro. Barry was the recipient of a silver matchbox at the last meeting of the Friendly Societies' Council on severing his connection with that 'body.

At a general meeting of the men of the parish, held, in the ZealancUa Hall on Friday last, the Rev. Father Costello in the chair, the following were elected as a parish) icommarLUee : Messrs. U. A. Lougihnan, M. Kennedy, W. Devine, H. Aisher, P. Garrity, M. Hodgins, P. J. Redwood, W. Scanlon, E. Higgins, L. Hanlon, Jj. Hurley, 'J|. McLean, A. Rickard, W. 'Bro.phy, -*M. Power, Hy. Butler, M. Hickey, A. McKewan, W. Ryan, V. A. Dallow, R. Mulnooney. At the close of the meeting the rev. chairman made a few remarks as regrads the financial position of the parish, and thanked all for their attendance and the interest they had evinced in parish affainsi, and for electing such a splendid bodyi of men to assist him in the financial part 'of the wotk of the mission. He said he 'had q.uite enough to do to look after their spiritual wants in such a large and fa,st-growing parish, and that in taking their own aftairs into their own hands the various debts and liabilities of the mission would soon be a thing of the past. At a meeting of the newly elected committee Mr. C. A. Loughnan was unanimously appointed chairman, with Mr. M. Kennedy and Mr. W. Devine as secretary and treasurer respectively. The following subcommittees were set up : — Finance — Messrs. R. Mulrooney, F. Aisher, N. Hanlon, M. Hodgins, P. Garrity, and J. Hurley; hall/— 'Messrs. F. Ais'her (chairman), W. Scanlon, W. Devine, A. Rickard, and M. Hickey.