INVERCARGILL NOTES

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 52, 31 December 1924, Page 39

INVERCARGILL NOTES

(From our own Correspondent.) December 19. The news of the death by drowning at New Brighton, Christchurch, on Sunday last, of John Patrick McMullan came as a great' shock to his many friends in Invercargill. Jack was one of our most popular young men, and had spent the whole of his life in this town, having only recently been .transferred to Christchurch in his capacity as a Post-Telegraph official. Mr. McMullan was a

keen footballer, and one of the founders; of the Marist Old Boys' Club in this town, being for many years treasurer of the club and captain of the second fifteen. He was also secretary for a time of the Marist Brothers' Old Boys' Association, a keen member of the Literary and Debating Society, and- a member of the Hibernian Society. In his official duties in the Money Order branch of the Post Office he was well known as a courteous and obliging official, and by his death the department loses a very efficient servant. Jack was, above all things, an exemplary Catholic and a splendid example of the'type' of young man who has been educated in a Catholic school surrounded by Catholic influences in his home life. The sympathy of all goes out to his father, sisters. and brothers in their great loss. —R.I.P. ■ >■ A pleasant little function took place on Sunday afternoon in St. Joseph's, when the members of the sodality of Children of Mary met to make a presentation to the Sister in charge. The Very Rev. Dean Burke made the presentation of a solid leather dressing" case, and referred in his usual happy manner to the good work done by the Sister. All the girls joined in wishing Sister a pleasant holiday and hoping to have her back as directress for many more years.