TRAMWAYS RECREATION ROOM.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 688, 13 December 1909, Page 7

TRAMWAYS RECREATION ROOM.

\■ : :fibst social -evening.;' \:' ■ . Some- time, ago ,'■ tije ■ tramway ■em ployeea; "came :to the conclusion tha it .would "be a.-good thing ; if-'.they,ha< Some place where they iriight enjoy themselvc: on certain lines when work was over. -'. Thcii plan for building a recreation' room or gym nasium was helped.forward by the City Conn oil,.which gave a subsidy of 40s. to the £ o the men's subscriptions. On , Friday (evening the gymnasium, which has' been erected closi to the tramway was ppene< with a smoke concert.-The Mayor (Dr. New man) presided, and there were also presen Messra. Fisher and Wright, M.P.'s,; Councillor Hindmarsh, Fletcher and' Fitzgerald,' Messrs Btuartr Eichardson (tramways'.-engineer);-' M Cable (assistant' engineer), and.G. E. Jamo: (traffio l superintendent)., Apologios for nn avoidable absence were/ received: from Messrs Wilford and M'Laren, M.P.'e, Cobricillor Shirtoliffe, CoKen, and Ballinger, and Mr, W Tnlbot (of Brooklyn). •■ ■ J; ."' . : .During the evening-Mr. Q. B. : James *as presented with a : framed photograph of thi tramways football team-as a mark of the foot ball club's appreciation of his eeryices os' man ager.' ."■ •■.;. '■■'''.■ '■ '.'■".-■ .-. .-.'■■'.'-:. ; .- • ■•'■ .-'•■ Mr. J.i"W. Catlaghan (chief accoiintant), whi for many years has acted as treasurer of thi Tramways Sick and Berielit Society, was ala presented with a purse of sovereign from thi Eocioty.'.' .'•',-•'. .-.. ■ ■•'.'■:'■: -■'.■ ■' ; :-. ■•' " ■ The following toasts were honoured durinj the evening, "The King," "'The City Coun cil," "Tramways Management," "Onr Qnosts,' "Onr Kindred Bodies,"; "The Eecrentioi Club," "The, Radios/' and "The Chairman.' Musical and other items, which made thetimi pass pleasantly, were contributed by the fol lowing: Messrs. Baker;, Swindale, Duncan teth, liillicrap, Just, .James, Samuells, Bayle and Moir. .- . ■ . ' ■" ■■'•. .i ■■■'■' -...-.i.'--.; •: : ■ •, ' ' ** ■':■■' : '. ; ■ '-. ■'