THE EVENING POST

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 135, 7 June 1912, Page 8

THE EVENING POST

ANNUAL DINNER. , The E**ening Post employees' eighth annual reunion was held at the Burlington, Wiffis^sfcreet, last night, and was /unanimously, .voted as being tho most euecesslol that has yet been, held.' Mr. 3?. Jones, m&mtger of the jobbing department, presided over the gathering, which numbered nearly eighty, all the various departments being well represented. 'Apologies for unavoidable - absence Iwere reccriwed from Mr., L. P. Biundell and Mr. Gres4ey Lukin. A •very pleasant feature of the affair was itbe large number of "old hands'' apresent — men whose term of employment extends over periods ranging from twenty tto forty yeaae. After an excellent supper ffcwo. 01' three emjoyable hours were spent in toast, song, and story. Reminiscences of the early da.)B of The Post are" a 1 way* «, pleasant feature of these gathering*, and last night's 6upply went to show ithat the mins is practically inexhaustible. The toast of the evening, " The Evening Post," was proposed, by Mr. J. Parker (chief sub-ediii>r^, who remarked on the i'air and considerate .treatment that IMessrs. Blundlell Brothers had always shown to their •employees, -whose appreciation of it wae clearly evidenced by lie presence at th« gathering of men who ihad grown, old in the firm's employ. Tlie toast, which, wae drunk vjith entthusiaam, "reas rresponded to by Messrs. John and W.^ J. Biundell, the former stating that it had always been, the policy of the firm to do tha fair thm^ hy their employees, and it was hie strong desire that that policy should bo followed so long as tlift iinn existed. (Applause.) Mr. F. K. Reeves proposed the health of "The Old Hands,"" coupled •with the names of Meters. P. Ceorgeson '(who has been over thirty-one years on Ahe commercial staff), Mr. George Barnard ,(who was apprenticed to tho firm forty years ago), and Mr. J. R. Gibbons. Those gentlemen responded, Mr. Goorgeson indulging in come reminisceEces of the early days and the old hands which greatly interested and amused those present. Other toast« were: "Literary Department," proposed by Mr. A. .Wnitelaw, and responded to by Messrs. \v". J. Guerin and F. J. Esrle; "The Editor, Mr. Gresley Lukin," proposed by Mr. J. Biundell ; "The Commercial Staff," proposed by Mt. 3. Grealish and responded to tby Messrs. W. Harrington and M. Beck ; " The Mechanical Staff/ proposed 'by Mr. Percy Biundell and responded to toy Messrs. Wynne and Alexander; "The Stone Hands," proposed by the chairman and responded to by Mr. C. Currie ; " The Ladies." proposed by Mr. 'A. Chorlton and responded to by Messrs. K. -Ross and Len. Biundell; "The Chairman," proposed by Mr. W. J. Blundejl; and "The Committee" — Messrs. T. Jones, G. Clarke, J. R. Gibbons, T. Hodges, S. Hall, V. Clifford-Roberts, 'A. Wbitelaw, L. Brown (secretary), and ftV. Harrington (treasui'.sr). Mr. D. Kenny presided at the piano, and ' an excellent programme was provided by Messrs. P. Fitzgerald, G. Osfoome, E. BlundeH, T. Hodges, M. Beck, J). "Kenny, and W. Hill. The gathering Concluded -with the singing of "Auld Cgßßg Syne."

offices which have just been 'Srected afc Johnsonville for the u«e of the Town Board are to be formally opened to-morrow "afternoon by Mr. W. H. D. Jell, M.B I