A Well-Earned Holiday

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 8, 21 February 1924, Page 27

A Well-Earned Holiday

FATHER GALERNE LEAVES FOR EUROPE. After many years of strenuous labor in various parts of the Dominion, we are delightedas will be his very numerous friends throughout New Zealand—to learn that Father A. Galerne, S.M., now of Temnka, has been granted leave of absence, and, at the request of the Superior-General at Turin, Italy, leaves shortly for Europe. Father Galerne

came to New Zealand jn 1890, close on 34 years ago, and during that lengthy period, except to Fiji, his travels have not extended beyond the limits of the various districts to which duty called him. In company with Archbishop O’Shea, Father S. Mahony, the late Father Malone, and a French student (now on the mission in the New Hebridies), he studied theology at Meeanee, and the five of -them were ordained together by Bishop Grimes, on December 3, 1893. Ordained for the Marist Missions among the islands of the South Seas, Father Galerne went to Fiji, but owing to his health being affected by the trying climate, he was obliged, to his great sorrow, to return after seven weeks, to New Zealand. He subsequently spent 12 years in the extensive parish of Reefton, 5 years in the Cathedral parish of Christchurch, 6 years in Temuka, 3 years in Hastings, 2 years in Fairlie, close on 2 years in Timaru, and one year in Wellington. Father Galerne has made many sincere friends in every district in which he has so devotedly labored, and all will wish him a pleasant holiday abroad, and the enjoyment of the best of health.