HASTINGS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 6, 6 February 1908, Page 17

HASTINGS

(From our own correspondent.) r February 1 The members of the Catholic.. Young Men's Club held a general meeting last evening, when -the annual' report and balance-sheet were submitted to a "large at- 1 tendance of members. The report referred to the prosperity enjoyed by tb.3 Club during its first year -of existence, and the balance-sheet showed a credit : of £10 Is 6d. Both were .adopted. This being all the business^ for the evening-, the company then adjourned for music. A nice programme was given, which included jtems by the following,:— Messrs. T. O'Shea, J. Donovan, J. Mo G-uirfc, O. McGmirk, J. Timmons, and F. L. Vickers. Aid vantage was taken of ths occasion to mark members' a.nprecia+iom of the seriates rendered s to the Club by th° President, Rev. Farther Quin 4 n, and. to present him with a handsome souT-enir, in -t^S; form of a case of ivory- i bb l ac v e1 brushes, and a gentleman's companion. - The Very Rev. Dean of the. Club, made the presentation, and, in so doing, referred" to the st'cctss achieved by' the members of the' Club under Father/ Quinn's guidiance, /and to his u.nfla-Kr.ing zeal in tin interest of the young men°-of the parish. Mr. T. O'Shea ,(Vice-President) and Mr. J. Timmons' also spoVe of the deep interest taken by Father Ouinn in the welfare of the Club, and of the energy displayed by him 1 in furthering its interests. 1 Father Quinn, in reply, said tint anything he had done to assist the -Club was to him a labor of love, and, he could not spe anything to justify, the action of the^ members that nis?ht. He thanked them sincerely for their handsome nresen't, which he would always cherish. as a token of their esteem and respect for him. Rev. Fattier Corcoran, of Dunedin, was also pre-. s°nt and addressed a few words to the assemblage. He expressed his pleasure at being amontrst the voune; men, and said it was a source of edification to him' to see the unity existing between the young men and the priests of the parish. The Very Pev. Dean Smvth then invited the party totfc- Presbytery, where light refreshments were handed round. • Mr ",tV T ' Tiirrmm n s . who was resnonsible^ for organislsine: This little function, w?s hi°-hrv complimented by Ins menders on the success of the evening.