IRISH NIGHT.

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1065, 1 September 1930, Page 14

IRISH NIGHT.

ONEHUNGA ORPHANS’ CLUB A strong contingent of the Tamak: Orphans’ Club, augmented by seven members of the Auckland Savage Clcr. paid an official visit to the Onehuns, Orphans’ Club on Saturday, wher Vice-president Bro. J. E. Green ha; charge of the gavel. The programme was derated entirelr to Irish music, song and »tory, an; was successfully carried through by the following artists:—Bro. Alan W, Skimming, who sang “Father O’Flynr’ and “Mother Machree” and Mr. J. Park, who recounted humorous incidents in the lives of some of the Irish residents in the early days of Orehunga. Humorous Irish recitations by Bros. George Swan. Rex Yates and E. Fort were all heartily received, as Bro. Duncan Black’s singing of ‘*Ti‘ Harp that Once.” A feature of tP programme was the spirited playing of Irish airs by the club’s orchestra, urder Bro. J. Lighton. The chairman, in a short review c: Irish history, said that a deep-root?: passion for liberty and a burning resentment of oppression had teen the bottom of Ireland’s troubles for tfc« past three centuries. Her two gr?r claims were for religious and politic: freedom and no reasonable Englishit2 today would deny that both claims wejust ones.

Britain, contended Mr. Green. been a heavy loser by her failure w sympathise with Irish aspirations. B-; showed how Irish influence had help*to sway the American colonies tow*® independence and how the politicfreedom now' enjoyed by Australia Xew Zealand had some of its roots the armed resistance to British exactions made by -die Ballarat miners, leu by Peter Lalor. an Irish gold digger in the famous tight for liberty at U* Eureka stockade on December 3. Bro. W. Osburne-Lilly, vice-rangf* tira of the Auckland Savage Clud. Bro. W. Millar, president of Tamaki Orphans’ Club, smtaoF acknowledged the welcome accord- : the visitors. The chairman announce: that the club’s next meeting WOU J“ Fr in charge of Past President Bro. T. rPardington. and the official would be the executive officers ot Otahuhu and Devonport Orpnar Clubs. It was also announced tnw * _ club’s annual ladies’ night had D® fixed for Wednesday, September i ■ Before commencing £he proceed”*: a vote of sympathy with the C 1 president, Bro. R. G. Speight, in the • of his second son was passed m alien