BEER AND WATER

NZ Truth, Issue 1108, 24 February 1927, Page 6

BEER AND WATER

IT may be that Con Welspn, of Auckland, has had so much to do with' water that he was glad to get away from it—at all events as a beverage — for after having to deal with the Queen . City's wrongdoers'for eight years _s_a..y member .of the police force he has now . become a publican. ". i ■ , Con first represented Auckland hv • the New Zealand swimming ' chain-; pionships as long ago as 1909, and/; since then he has competed m practi- ; cally every imaginable, swimming event from the 50yds.\to the five-mile. From 1915 10 1920 -Y'*r .

he . held the N.Z. quarter-mile! halfmile '.;: and mile championships, to say nothing of earning for himself the distinction of being the best diver the Dominion could produce m the latter year. Con's collection of honor certificates for emulating the

finny ' fish make quite a healthy pile, and the fact that he is by no means a back number m the swimming game is a good indica-r tin of his chance of adding to them;;, He is an, active member of the Waitemata Swimming Cup and .a Kellerman Cup winner. ._ Conrad John Welson, to give him his full name, is not unknown as a. boxing trainer; Shaw, Lasher and Gleeson are some of the glove gladiators who have . . passed through his hands. As a policeman .Con made few—if • any—enemies, either as a member of the water police or as a traffic cop, and as the licensee of the Shamrock Hotel he is m a position to add considerably to his list of friends, especially among the sporting fraternity.. .