Charge Your Glasses.

Northern Advocate, 8 April 1916, Page 3

Charge Your Glasses.

Supper over, the Superintendent passed the cigars and the programme began. "Gentleman charge your glasses for the King." Mr Hosking sang "Reuben Ranzo," but the Superintendent excused him from the encore demanded, as he was suffering from a sore throat. Mr Hunter rendered "Mountain Lovers," and Mr Patterson "His Charity Covers his Sins," a descriptive topical song. Mr.Jolley Thomas as a raconteur was in excellent form, and gav e "Not too Good," a capital story that supplied a catch word for the evening. Fireman Thomas followed with a humorous song "Moving Day." The toast "Our Boys at the Front," proposed by the Super, intendent, was drunk with a quiet feeling, that in itself was eloquent.

The Mayor (Mr D. W. Jack), replied touching upon the deep sense of rememberance, in the background of all festivity, for our brave lads at the front. How much we owed to them, how the peace and freedom we enjoyed were purchased by their devotion to duty. They thought especially of those who had laid down their lives in far off Gallipoli. They would always look to them as men who made the supreme sacrifice not in the pursuit of pleasure, or in the enterprise of gain, but in doing their duty, and their example would always remain before us as a call to the high and honourable discharge of our own duties, whatever they might be.

Two framed enlargements were shown to the company, one, of Private Jack Carlton, a member of the Brigade who had fallen at the front, and the other of Troopers R. Burt and H. Haswell, whom, said the Mayor, they hoped to be able some day to welcome home. These pictures would be hung in the station and be a reminder of the sacrifice and devo. tion the men they represented had shown. Fireman Tollhurst sang "Your Eyes Have Told Me So," after which the Superintendent gave the toast of "the Fire Board," reminding the Brigade that the Board had taken another step forward recently in deciding to provide an electric warning bell. As it was, only four men slept at the station, and going out, they would be delayed to ring the bell. It was important to avoid all delay, and the early call of an electric bell would be a great advantage. The toast was celebrated with musical honours, Fire Brigade copyright version.