CORPORATION SMOKO

Evening Star, Issue 18852, 29 January 1925, Page 4

CORPORATION SMOKO

PRESENTATION TO MR H. KING. CITY INSPECTOR E AREWELLED. The smoke social of tho- City Corporation employees held in Kroon’s Hall last evening was a typical gathering of its kind in every respect. There was a big attendance, and a very lengthy programme of toasts and entertaining items. The occasion gave a fitting opportunity for the making of a presentation to Mr 11. King, chief city inspector, who has been in the Dunedin City Corporation's employ for twenty-one yea rs. Mr A. Xewstnbb (chairman) said In hoped Mr and .Mrs King would live in good health and (hie prosperity in their future home in the north. Mr J. Alford, on behalf of the many friends and fellow-workmen of Mr King, presented him with a solid gold watch, .and with a lady's companion for Mrs lying. He hoped Mr King would accept it as a token of the high esteem in which he was held among them, ami that he would Jong bo spared to use if. Mr K. Smith, machinery inspector. South Dunedin, said that Mr King had during his many years in office carried out perhaps some of the most important works of (he oily. Tie had carried out works in various quarries and subsidiary quarries, he had had the Silverstream water race harnessed, the Sullivan dam project take:; to a. successful termination, considerable work done at Waipori. and ho had thoroughly mastered the Mice, paving problem. Dersonally, the speaker land found him a manly, lesourceful. em geiie, am! truthful man, who was aGo a sport. Mr 11. E. Shiel. Mr M. Stevenson, and Mr W. Casey added a few winds of praise. Mr Si,id questioned whether Mr King’s services had been fully appreciated. and spore highly of the inspector's ability; and Mr Stevenson referred to the Hi. Clair Esplanade project that had been carried out, and to the monument that MiKing had put down to his ability in Hie streets.

.Mr King responded on behalf of his wife and himself, saying that be had always done his best- for the City Council. Ho had worked more than the eight hours a day, and in connection with tins, he said that (be ’phone in a corporation man’s house was like a red rag to a bull. He could understand ‘‘the lads.” and he appreciated the remarks about, himself. Speaking of street, paving, he staled that he had studied the subject for fourteen years. We had had Trinidad work done eventually—the first in tin; Australasian colonies —and engineers from America and elsewhere came to see the roads. Mr King was toasted, and later in the evening (he toast “ Mayor and Councillors ” was proposed. To this latter the mayor (Mr Taplcy) replied, and Crs Bogg and Douglas were present.

Mr Tapley first gave thanks for the very warm welcome he received, and expressed regret at not having lir-ard the. eulogistic references (o Mr Jvuig. Ho was pleased to bo there, he said, to add to the previous speakers’ remarks, and to say that very complimentary and flattering references had been made at the council meeting to Mr King. He congratulated him upon the splendid feeling that ho saw existed between him and tho corporation employees, Speaking on behalf of tho council, he took the opportunity of saying how very grateful members wore, to Mr King for the services he had rendered. Mr King had initiative and ability, and had carried out his duties faithfully "and well. -At tU council meeting it had been decided to give him a letter—a testomonial to carry away—in which the feelings of members had been expressed. Mr King was going to a more responsible position than he had hero, and he hoped good fortune, health, and happiness’ and prosperity in every way would follow him.

Mr King again briefly responded. The other toasts honored were “ Tire Army and Navy” and “The Visitors and the Kress.”