LOCAL BODIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 68, 17 September 1936, Page 5

LOCAL BODIES

OFFICERS FOREGATHER

History, music, and dancing were enjoyed by members of the Local Bodies' Officers' Guild, who, with their wives and friends, attended one of the guild's usual gatherings in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall last evening. The main item of the programme was an instructive address by the Town Clerk (Mr. E. P. Norman) on glimpses of the life of the Duke of Wellington, after whom the city is named.

Mr. Norman, with the assistance of a series of lantern slides consisting mainly of maps, traced the Duke's military career, describing tactics and fortunes in battles fought by the great soldier in India, Spain, Portugal, and France, culminating with the routing of Napoleon on the field of Waterloo. Reference also was made to the distinguished but stormy political career of the Duke, who scorned party politics and pledged himself to the service of his country.

It *was a great honour that the city should be named after such a man, said Mr. Norman, a man of outstanding ability not only in the military world, but as an administrator. His character, resourcefulness, and indomitable pluck against all the forces he had to face were something that ought to inspire citizens to put their best foot forward.

■ At the.close of Mr. Norman's address several items were given, and the evening closed with dancing.