POLICEMEN HOSTS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 149, 21 December 1945, Page 10

POLICEMEN HOSTS

ANNUAL CHILDREN'S. PARTY

Members of the Police Force transferred their attention temporarily from older miscreants to very young mischief-makers ypsterday when they held their annual Christmas party for children in the social hall at the Central Police Station. Afternoon duty nrpsented no sterner r»roblems than *pr>nrating fo"r-year-old wrangler? •'vith eyes on the same tpfldy bear or r-npffortirfs the downtrodden in the rr^h for ice cream.-'-The narty l jhad._b < een;banned to take ninoe in the' bben\t>olic&' yard where -^nroTjripte entertainment had. been "Innned. but tb<* yovinnr guests snent a '-« less happy time in the gaily-decked hHI.

Policemen doffed official garb for the-occasion' and cheerfully, turned ice "voorn disp^np^rt;. tea waiters, and disMbutors of. gifts, assisted by policewomen. Evn Father Christmas had a novel horaldinrf v«stprrte-«\ his arrival being by the niping of thr Pnljr-.fi B?nd ■in<*ef>rl of the more usual pr'T'lmrt' of sleiVh. b^lls.

The boys and girls who wpre ryrpsent with'their mothers were all child-i-»n nf members ano1 px-m^mbprs of thp Police Force and of members who ln=t their "lives overseas. rvhery,™cr%o- wplr.om pd by S^rjprint.pndpnt. G. "R. "Edwprrj«f arid -afterward each ehil^ was ppn^d' tn receive a Christmas sift, thp pp'llip'T 'forward of comroi??ionpd nflfipptr.'inspectors, and pub-inspectors also causing much amusement.