Children's Farewell to Monsignor Cahill

New Zealand Tablet, 8 May 1924, Page 17

Children's Farewell to Monsignor Cahill

On Friday, the 11th ult., the children of St. John's Convent School, Parnell, Auckland, under the charge of the Sisters of Mercy, tendered a farewell to their much beloved pastor, the Right Rev. Mgr. Cahill, prior to his departure on a holiday tour to Europe. The schoolroom was tastefully decorated for the occasion, and a varied programme of songs and dancing, also elocutionary items, was very creditably rendered by the pupils. At an interval in the entertainment, an address to the Monsignor from the children was read by one of the senior girls, after which a presentation in the form of a "gentleman's travelling set," suitably inscribed, was made to their revered departing guest. Mgr. Cahill replied very feelingly to the children and expressed., his regret at leaving them even for the short time he expected to be away. He thanked them sincerely for their beautiful and useful gift and for the sentiments conveyed in their delightfully worded address. During his absence they would be under the pastoral care of Very Rev. Father Brennan, who would take a deep interest in them and in the welfare of their school. In wishing the children good-bye he expressed the hope that the Sisters would have a very successful scholastic year.