RUNCIMAN

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 324, 6 November 1917, Page 2

RUNCIMAN

t FARMERS' UNION SOCIAL 3 The first social under theauspice-i ■ of the Rama Rama-Runciman branch * of the Farmers' Union was held in 1 Mr Ballard's barn on Wednesday evening of last week. The commit- * tee responsible arranged an excel--1 lent programme and in fact it was i admitted that nothing previously i had approached it in the district. • Mr Logan Donald, manager of the I Trading Company in Auckland, came down, and brought a party including Miss Jessie Bartlett, Messrs Burke, Fred Raynor and Armiger. The artists were undoubtedly out to ! make the evening a success and they lavished their tdent upon the appreciative audience. The National Anthem being sung, the Chairman on bha f ' f the branch welcomed th j gitliering in a happy speech, after which the proceedings passed into th>- hands of Mr Mark Ballard. S'»n^ r and, dance came alternately untii ti.e interval when Mr Duua d a<l reused the gathering on the Tradii g Companj', its struggles, its victories, and its future. He ur.de reference to the help ho had r< ceived from Branch secretaries, especially that afforded by the lite secretary, Mr W. T. Baker, whom th°y were there that night to honour. Then the Chairman, on behalf of the Branch, present d Mr Baker with an electroplated inkstand suitably inscribe 1, and «>n behalf of Mr Donald with a silver cigarette case. In acknowledgment, Mr Baker remarked that he would cherish the evening as <>r,e of the most pleasant in his life, lie felt that the praise • bestowed on him was due to other ni* mherS <>f the branch. It had been run.oared that he hat l severed connection with the Farmers' Union but this \vt:s not the case. He still took a deep inured in it and in the Trading Company, but the only way by which lie could show the Provincial Executive that business was meant in the matter over which his resignation was tendered was to resign. He felt sure that the Trading Company had a great future before it and urged people to support it. Refreshments wi-re then served and the programme continued until the singing of Auld Lang Syne. At the last meeting of the Rama Rama-Rnneiman branch of the Far- ! mers' Union it was decided to throw the meeting open in future t > nonuiembers and to youths with a view of interesting the former in the Union, and the latter in farming! generally. Several papers are due j t-» !.e read > n matters of interest to , farm is to 'e followed by a di*u- j sion on the same, j ]