In Memoriam.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 3, 1 September 1923, Page 302

In Memoriam.

THOMAS ANSON CATO, PRIEST.

' " The Rev. T. A. Cato, assistant .priest: at Holy Trinity, Gisborne, (passed- ;to His "reward on Sunday, August 19th. Mr Cato had eelefirated; -kti, 3 a.m. at Te Hapara and was preparing to go to the public hospital to celebrate there at 11 a.in. nwhen he suddenly collapsed. Ordained Deacon m 1886 and priest on the F. of. St. Bartholomew, 1589, by the Bishop of Nelson, he served four years m the Nelson Diocese, four years at Wairoa, H. Bay, and for csome time at Opotiki. He then went •to Australia as Rector of Leura and, later, of Bfaidwood and of Gum- ■ niing. Returning to New Zealand 'he became assistant Priest at Holy Trinity, Gisborne. For several years 'm spite of delicate health he has served with greati faithfulness at Gisbbrne and was much beloved. As Canon Packe said m announcing to the congregation the fact of his death, • "A good man has gone to his rest, as he himself would have wished. Spared to old age and able to work up to and on the last day: m work too that was not work to him for the love he

"brought to it. "We are not : suve but was to be envied. Men of •greater, gifts than Thomas Anson Cato have lived their day and passed on forgotten. Few have surpassed him m sheer goodness, unselfish loyalty and . Christian charity: - He will lcngbe remembered m Gisborne as one who. was unsparing m his work for others, but forgot himself." Mr Cato was educated at Harrow and at Oxford %pe^sifey. On the morning of his. b^riala requiem celebj atipn \?as <hel4; at Holy trinity, and at the. burial in' the. afternoon, there was a very large attendance; of .fi;iends, priests and layman, desirous to do honor to his* 3n)?mpry. The yicar of Gisborne officiajbed. May ■'•tUp merciful Lord grant him a place of refreshment, lighj- and. peace m Hig j^ingdpm.... - . -