Hokitika

New Zealand Tablet, 14 March 1912, Page 29

Hokitika

(From an occasional correspondent.) ' A gloom settled on the Catholic community of this town at the sad and very depressing intelligence of the death in one week of four of its most noted and esteemed Catholic residents—viz., Mr. Janies Toomey, of, Revell street, at the age of 52'years ; Mrs. Mary Cook, of Gibsons quay, 92 years ; Mrs. Mary Murphy, 84 years, Mr. Thomas Green, Sewell street, 67 years. Mr. J. Toomey was many years a member of 'the' C.A.8., Harbor Board, and also a member of the High School committee. He had been identified with every good work of the parish, and especially during the rectorship of the late Dean Martin, his'services were practically indispensable whether lor , school, church, or other parochial institutions. Although a native of Victoria, Ids love for Ireland proved him a staunch and tried supporter of a cause for the advancement of which he was always in the forefront. The Rev. Father Clancy, commenting on the loss sustained by the parish in their demise, at the Masses on Sunday, eulogised above all' the steadfastness of their faith and devotion to the Church. He appealed to his hearers to imitate the deceased in that self-sacrificing devotion to Holy Church, the. leading mark of their lives, so that in death they might, too, have the consolation of an ever-abiding intercessor for them.—R.l.P.