Rangiora

New Zealand Tablet, 15 September 1921, Page 27

Rangiora

Amongst those who left New Zealand with the 27th Contingent for the great war (writes a correspondent; as ward Fitzgibbon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Fitzgibbon, of Rangiora (late of Lobnrn, North Canterbury;. , nor to his departure, he left an injunction to.his people that if he did not return, a suitable memorial of him should be placed in the Loburn church. Edward Fitzgibbon fell in the great battle which was fought on ; April 8, 1918. His wishes were fully carried out, and a magnificent chalice, the work of Bertolli Bros., of Rome (artists of repute), suitably inscribed and beautifully .ornamented with rubies, medallions and chaste filigree work, was presented by the Fitzgibbon family. This was the occasion of an impressive ceremony at St. Brigid’s Church, Loburn, on Sunday, August 28. An appropriate discourse was delivered by the Very Rev. Dean Hyland, in the presence of a largo congregation, v