ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 16, 26 April 1923, Page 27

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

(From our own correspondent.) * April 21. Mr. E. W. Gibbs has just retired from the firm of E. W. Mills and Co., after sixty years’ service. He was the recipient of a splendid presentation from the firm and the staff. Mr. Gibbs is a parishioner of Thorndon, and a generous benefactor to the Church. It was he who donated the beautiful Mosaic floor for the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. i The Rev, Father O’Shea, of the Far East Mission, was at St. Anne’s last Sunday. His next visit will be to St.. Francis’s, Island Bay. All of the clergy who could possibly go left by the mail train on Friday to be present at the funeral obsequies at Greenmeadows, of the veteran priest of the Archdiocese, the Very Rev. Dean Binsfeld, S.M. Last Wednesday was the feast day of the Rev. Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, of the Order of Our Lady of Compassion. The' Rev. Mother is in her eighty-eighth year. m