ST. COLUMBA CLUB, QREYMOUTH

New Zealand Tablet, 20 May 1915, Page 53

ST. COLUMBA CLUB, QREYMOUTH

At the usual weekly meeting of the St. Columba Club, Mr. H. F. Doogan presided over a fair attendance. The social committee reported having the arrangements for the coming season well in hand. A special committee has been appointed to carry out these functions, and patrons can rely on nights of' agreeable enjoyment. Farewell was taken of one of the most diligent members of the club, in the person of Mr. W. Minehan, who leaves for Christchurch to take up a position in the Defence Department. Mr. 11. F. Doogan in an appropriate speech referred to the many sterling qualities of the departing member, both as a club member and a competitor in the elocution and debating circle. On behalf of the club members he asked Mr. Minehan to accept as a token of the good feelings and the esteem in which he was held, a travelling bag. He trusted it would always remind the recipient of the many pleasant and profitable hours he had spent in the St. Columba rooms. Rev. Father Lacroix, Messrs. F. Hargreaves and 11. Millard endorsed the remarks of the chairman... Mr. Minehan thanked the members for the kind sentiments expressed and the very useful present. He assured them that it needed little to remind him of the many happy times he had spent while a member of the club. He had been a member for six years, and was proud to admit that the influence of the club had been the turning point, of his life. He concluded by wishing the club every success in the future and bidding the members au revoir..