CORRESPONDENCE

New Zealand Tablet, 12 August 1909, Page 1263

CORRESPONDENCE

MR. J. F. PERRIN

TO THE EDITOR. • Dear Sir, — It has become known to me that a former editor of this paper, ,J. F. Perrin, has fallen on veiy hard times in Melbourne. In fact, through old ago and the infirmity necessarily attendant on it, and the extreme delicacy of his family, he, his wife, and family are practically in want of the very necessaries of life. This is truly sad news, and doubly sad for us Catholics to have it brought home to us in this manner, that one £>f the noblest of our members — one who sacrificed much in becoming a convert to the Catholic Church, and who through dark and evil days kept the old flag .of religion and patriotism flying as the able lieutenant of the late Bishop Moran during the many years he "was editor of the New Zealand Tablet — is in such dire distress. When this sad news became known to the priests of tlie diocese of Dunedin they, and the directors of the Tablet, at once most generously subscribed; so that we have been enabled to forward to Melbourne a sufficient sum to keep the wolf from the door for the present. It has occurred to me that there are a great number of old subscribers, both lay and clerical, in other parts of New Zealand who will remember the noble fight put up in times past, and will not forget the veterans who engaged in that fight. Therefore through you I appeal to those of your subscribers, lay and clerical, whom God has blessed with means, to give a little, so that they may help to brighten the declining years of one who deserves well of them. With confidence I leave tlie matter now in their hands, 'knowing it has only to be brought under the notice of your subscribers to receive a generous response. — I am, etc., JAMES COFFEY, Adm. St. Joseph's Cathedral, Dunedin, August 11.