CITY OF MELBOURNE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 150, 31 December 1928, Page 11

CITY OF MELBOURNE

VISITING COUNCILLOR Among the, bowlers visiting Welhngton to paitiupato in tlic Dominion bowling tournament, is Counulloi Baion Maiks, JP , a niembei oi the Mclbournci City Council Couucilloi Maiks, though visiting Wellington pnmaiily ±01 thr puiposo ot the louinament, is also 011 a bight seeing toui, and has ihcady man aged to visit, since he landed at AucA laud early 111 December, many ot the places ot mteiest in the North Island, including Waitoino and the Wanganui Itiv ci An an enthusiastic bowloi, he is piesident oi the St. Kilda (Melbourne) Club, and is a. niembei of the executive of the Victoria Bowling Association. He held an executive position with the Austia hin bowling team which touied Dug hnd, Wales, and Scotland in 1922. Ji'oi the-last six ycais ho has been 1 member of the Melbourne City Council, and duung that time lias seived on tlio electric light supply committee, the public woiks committee, the licensed -v c hielos committee, and is one of the inanageis ot the Melbourne geneial cemeteiy. He is an active woiker in connection with charitable institutions, and ]S a member of the executive coun cil of the Old Colonists Boaid of Vie tona, which contiols 100 charitable m-1 btitutions in Melbourne, which now has a population of over a million. Melbourne, ho stated to a "Post' 1 re poiter, was making gieat progiebs with Jici loadways, gaidens, and playgiounds fol.,children., No, State was .doing moio ioi the benefit and the health of the joung geneiation than Melbourne was Paiticulaily did that woik have refei enco to the health of infants, who we) c caied foi at>"baby centies," whcie tieatment similar to that of the Pluu ket system was admmisteiccl