FAREWELL TO PRESIDENT

Taranaki Daily News, 26 January 1934, Page 8

FAREWELL TO PRESIDENT

ELTHAM SWIMMING CLUB. DECISION TO HOLD CARNIVAL. 1 'The Eltham Swimming Club has dei aided to hold another swimming carni- ■ val and at a meeting of the committee t on Wednesday Mr. A. Bennett and Miss ■ M. Hilmer were given authority to arrange for a suitable date. I It was stated that a ladies’ polo team - had been proposed and if sufficient in- ■ terest could be aroused players would , be selected and a team entered in the I competitions. ► Mr. G. M. Kebbel donated a cup for . competition on club nights. Mr. H. N. Murray referred to the imt pending departure of the president, Mr. > J. C. Walsh, for Nelson, and paid tris bute to the valuable services he had . rendered the sport for many years. His departure would be a big loss to the . club. Mr. A. Bennett endorsed Mr. Murray’s ; remarks. In reply Mr. Walsh congratulated the . club on its progress and hoped that the baths would be made larger to the standard dimensions of 33 1-3 yards. THEFTS BY YOUTHS ON ROAD. ONE BEFORE STRATFORD COURT. Charged with the theft of a slasher valued at 12s 6d and a hedge knife valued at 8s 9d, the property of C. A. Burnett, Glenore, South Island, and a pair of boots valued at £l, the property of A. S. Peebles, Half Moon Bay, Lake Wakatipu, James Leonard Boyd, a farm labourer of Waipuku, 19 years of age, pleaded guilty at the Stratford Court yesterday before Messrs W. L. Kennedy and W. Mclnnes, J.’s.P. He was admitted to probation for 12 months and ordered to make restitution of the value of the hedge-knife and slasher. Boyd had made a statement admitting the thefts, said Constable Beal. He and two younger companions were “on the road” after leaving home at Dunedin. The pair of boots had been lent to Boyd at Half Moon Bay and as his others were useless he had taken them with him when he left. The slasher and hedge-knife had been in a haystack on Burnett’s property at Glenore, and those the boys had taken with them in order to cut their way into haystacks at night. Boyd had made restitution of the value of the boots, as he had no others. The slasher and hedge-knife had been left at a camp they called at Boyd’s two companions, said the constable, had been dealt with at the Children’s Court at Dimedin and no order for restitution had been made against them. Sergeant T. Kelly applied for probation. The boy was only 19 and if he were sent to prison now it might launch him on a career of crime. His present employer wanted to take him back again. The justices of the peace agreed to allow Boyd probation, conditional on his refunding £1 Is 3d, the value of the hedge-knife and slasher. PERSONAL ITEMS. Mr. R. Harvey, of the Eltham Post Office staff, has been transferred to Patea. GENERAL ITEMS. Military Training. The Eltham unit of the Ist. Battalion Taranaki Regiment, which is 25 strong, will attend the military camp to be held at Waipukurau from February 10 to 17. The first training parade this year was held on Wednesday, when Lewis Gun and hand grenade instruction was given. Borough Picnic Cancelled. The picnic of the Eltham Borough Council members and staff, which was to have been held at Kaupokonui yesterday, was cancelled owing to the inability of some of the members to attend. Child’s Broken Arm. Betty Slade, the 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Slade, Tahora, sustained a broken arm in a fall from a table in her home on Wednesday. She was treated by Nurse B. Birss and brought to Stratford on yesterday’s early morning train from Taumarunui, to be conveyed by ambulance to the hospital. PUBLICITY FOR TARANAKI. i i “GARDEN OF NEW ZEALAND.” i That Taranaki is receiving a measure 1 of publicity in England is indicated in a letter written to a Patea resident from • Bristol. The writer states that she at- " tended a travel talk given by Mr. Joseph 1 Feil, in December last. Over 150 colour- < ed slides were used.to illustrate the dis- 1 course, which was given in a large hall < in the centre of the city. The value of 1 such publicity, the writer considered, i should be invaluable to the Dominion. < Numerous slides in which the scenic ’ beauty and the productivity of Taranaki : were featured were shown. New Plymouth was described as the garden of 1 New Zealand and in the views, to use the writers’ words, “everything looked < beautiful.” Mount Egmont also came in for attention, excellent slides of it being : shown. 1