SERVICES TO BOROUGH

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11952, 24 May 1933, Page 4

SERVICES TO BOROUGH

. ■ t PRESENT'ATTOX TO MR i . “A PROUD’ RECORD” • MR BE A Ul'O Y ALSO HONORED .Tangible recognition of good services to ibe borough was .made at the couiicii meeting last evening, when presentations wore ’made to the exMayor, Mr.D. AY. Coleman,. ALP., and to a. retiring member of the council, Mr ft V. Reaufoy. Air Coleman Was on the council for nine years and was Alayor for. ..the latter five years, while Mr Beaufoy was' a councillor for the past four years.

The Alayor, Air John Jackson, stated that it was his pleasing duty to make a presentation to Air Coleman, who had been on the council from 191 S to 1927 and in 1928 was elected Mayor, a position he held until the poll last month- This was a record of public service of which anyone might be proud. No doubt Air Coleman had seen many changes in .that time and the town had progressed very mrfell. The past two years Or so were very strenuous and had needed all Air Coleman’s attention. It was .especially pleasing to recall that Air Coleman " had had the strongest support of the council and the speaker was sure they regretted he was no longer with them. The Alayor then presented Mr Coleman with a handsome silver tea-pot suitably inscribed, expressing the hope that it would he a memory of the days he had had with the council. AIR COLEAIAN’S REPLY

Expressing warm thanks for thskind remarks and the gift, Air Coleman stated that he had had long experience of municipal work, and bad enjoyed every moment of it. Certainly it had been strenuous at. times and occasionally, he found he was running counter to the wishes of some pbople, hurt he had always acted in the way winch seemed to him would he of greatest benefit to the town. He. was leaving the council with the feeling his had done bis duty, as he saw it. in tho best interests of the horough. Always lie had been on the best of terms with the councillors and, while the might differ at times, they always left tlie council table with good fellow-ship unimpaired.

Air Coleman stated that he was very suprised at receiving the presentation and that- it seemed to him the council, were stretching the point a littfc, for lie had already received his token of service when he left the council five years ago. He would value the gift highly, aud it- would always bring hack to him the most pleasant memories. He wished, the council every success in the future. Nobody knew better than he that times would be difficult and strenuous, but he knew also that, with the council as at present constituted, they would ho able to look hack, at thy end of the thrin, oil two years well spent, with good progress made aud duty well done. AIR BE A LTD Y HONORED Addressing Air Beaufoy, the Alayor recalled that he had . served on the council from 1929 to 1933. The speaker was sure that period had been most pleasant and that. Air Beaufoy would carry away pleasant recollections of it. Differences had arisen hut they were all quickly and pleasantly settled. Air Beaufoy could rest with the conviction that he had given his time and work for the sake of the electors and the town. Air Jackson then presented Air Beaufoy with a silver cigarette case, also suitably engraved. “I see a vacant chair over there’’, said Air Beaufoy in reply, “aud I trust that it will uot- be long before I am again sitting, in your midst. It seems rather humorous when .one comes , to think of it—two Labor candidates contested tlie election and both were defeated, but now they are hack after the hair of the dog that bit them.” Air Beaufoy went on to say that no bitter feeling existed and that he had always attempted to do his very best for the borough. He concluded with expressions of thanks for the gift. .... • , , i . -r. ;