SERVICES RECOGNISED

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 233, 28 June 1922, Page 6

SERVICES RECOGNISED

SUBSTANTIAL GIFT TO MR. I. SALEK. At the annual meeting of tho Wellington Bowling Club last evening Mr. Godfrey Magnus proposed, and Mr. x±. G. Smith seconded : — “That the members of the Wellington Bowling Club authorise the directors to provide from the club funds - an amount sufficient to purchase .some appropriate token of their appreciation of the untiring efforts of their hon. treasurer (Mr. I. Salek). In ’ no^ l “S the motion Mr. Magnus made a eulogistic reference to the magnificenjl service Mr. Salek had rendered the club for ten years past. . As a guide to tho directors Mr. A. Wvlie moved as an amendment that the amount to be allocated for the purposes be a hundred guineas, to be paid to him either in cash or as a trophy of some kind. Mr. Erskine seconded the amendment. Mr. J. D. Sievwngnt thought that many members would like to personally subscribe to such an object and that £5O be paid from the club funds and £5O be voluntary subscription. Mr. Magnus said that they were aiming nt the same goal m p different wav. ■ It was his intention to ask tor a motion on the lines suggested after his motion had been passed. . Mr Wylie then withdrew his amendment,' and Mr. Magnus’s motion was unanimously carried. Mr. Wvlie then moved that the amount of a hundred guineas be allocated for the purpose mentioned from the club’s funds. When Mr. Salek returned to the room and was acquainted with what had been done, ho said that never had he felt so embarrassed in the whole of his life. It was not on account of the money, for money would not buy generosity and good feeling, it was something ho had not expected or deserved, and he could not on the spur of the moment say whether lie would accept it or not. A voice: You must I He could say, quite honestly, that it was not the first time members of the club had suggested something of the sort, but he had always persuaded them not to persist, and he quoted specific instances. On one occasion he said that if anything . was. done it would have to be by individual subscription, and no one must subsenbe more than two shillings—(laughter)— but what ho felt was the honour that was being done him by an assemblage of the members, many of them leading citizens and leaders m the commercial world, whom he could count as his friends. Many were there before him, but his glasses were blurred to eee them. He could only say that he thanked them all from the bottom of his heart—not for the hundred pounds, but for the fine feeling and spirit of comradeship behind .it. As he resumed his seat, visibly at- < fectod, cheers were given fox Air. Salek. __________