HUTT CRICKET CLUB

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11874, 7 July 1924, Page 5

HUTT CRICKET CLUB

AN ENJOYABLE EVENING. HUTT CRICKET CLUB DINNER. A dinner was given by the Hutt District Cricket Club on Saturday night in the Lower Hutt Masonic Hall. It proved a most .enjoyable function. Letters or regret were first announced by the president from Mr Mcßain and Mr Mansell, ,the latter of Christchurch. After the dinner, toasts were drunk in honour of various people and psorts, and .musical and humorous items were rendered by Misses Bradley, Griffiths, and Noble; and also Mr Mowlney. Trophies were presented to Mr W. A. Awmsley, Mr Maokay, Mr W. G. Hughes, Mr Naezor, Mt R. Awmsley, Mr W; Elsom (the club’s secretary), Mr B. Upton, Mr F. Murphy, Mr F. Warnes, and Mr J. Lambert as winners of the various club competitions. An additional trophy from an anonymous donor was given to Miss Clarke for being, "the world’s best scorer and .afternoon tea provider."

In replying to a toast the Mayor, Mr W. T. Strand, stated that the Hutt Council had in the past done their best m the furtherance of sport, though it was not all through his agency. It was a great pleasure to him to see the children on the playing fields, “building themselves up,” for it was they who were to be the future citizens of the Lower Hutt. The council had already spent considerable sums on sport in the district, and ho thought that no one could accuse them of neglecting this important factor in the welfare of New Zealand. Another speaker humourously stated in reference to Mr Fairbairn, the club's president, that although he had always found him a good and righteous man he thought that the president’s wife should object to seeing her worthy husband goinc over to the bowling green on a Saturday acfrnoon with the definite object of endeavouring to "kiss kitty.” Among those present at the function were Mesdames Fairbairn, Teagle, W. T. Strand, Addersley, Dudding, Clarke, Hughes, Doig, Beard, Elsom, McGirr, and Jenness. Misses Prehble, Clarke. Jenness, Bradley, and Noble, Messrs W. T. Strand (Mayor of Lower Hutt), J. H. Fairbairn (club president), C. G. Wilson (chairman of Wellington Cricket Association), R. Darroch (gecretary of W.G.A.), Rev. Rowe, McGirr, Buck, Innes, Baldwin, and many others. The evening clased with the singing of "Auld Land Syne."