INTERESTING PRESENTATION.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 250, 24 November 1914, Page 2

INTERESTING PRESENTATION.

During an interval iu the play on the Pukekohe Bowling Groon on Saturday Mr Barter president of the Club called tho members together in the pavilion for the purpose of presenting ou behalf of the Club two handsome travelling bags, suitably inscribed, to Messrs H. Graham and R. J. Eamos, who arc departing from the district. Mr Barter said that Mr Graham had been a member of tho club sinco its inauguration and Mr Eamos joined at the latter end of 1912. Mr Graham ha 1 gone through the hard tin.es of tho club and Mr Eames had boon most indefatigable in arranging matches. Ho onsidored Mr Graham one of the club's best skips, and suggosted to any of tho members who woro contemplating booming skips that thoy would do well to follow Mr Graham's piinciples. Mr Graham snd ho woro associated when ho (the speaker) won his only trophy* In presenting tho travelling bags, Mr Barter wished the recepieuts all success and trusted to seo them frequently visiting Pukekohe. Mr Graham suitably returnod thanks and expressed his intention of handing back to the club for competition ono of the trophies ho had won. f Mr E allies, In tile course of his reply, humorously remarked that tliero was a tinio when the only three movable trophies tho club posoessed had been won by himself but during die last week lie had been stripped ol the gold medal, robbed of the Star and finally lost tho Cock o' North, but thoro wero some things they could nut strip him of —they wero tho kind words of the president ami tho comradoship that existed between tho members and himself.