ELTHAM.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1917, Page 3

ELTHAM.

liVo'.n Our Own Correspondent.) jCltiiii.m. Dec. -27 The Salvation Army member.:, inmates of the Boys' Home, and others fi'le:! three large motor lorries and spent a mcst enjoyable day at the Opuiuike seaside. There we.'e'loU ill the party, ami a'.l revelled in the sunshine and sen s;ray. To-day they are all riinhunit and weary, but with pleasant recollections of tin* outing. Something in the way of ccmeiitiitj.' friendship between employer and em p'.oyee is no.\v under way with C. A. Wilkinson's stafi". Af present the whole stall", with their families, are sojourning, on the sandy stretehes of Trenui, having proceeded thither yesterday, and they return on Friday rveiiintr. Tin- "boss" foots the 'bill, but who will say that the money is not well spent. Actions like these' g c a- km? way to wards fostering loyalty, and eonhl very well be followed

with hoc 1 results by other firm.-. "Our ' member" knows how to set tin- best from his Workers. and bo lias the writer''* ' lest wishes for the future on account of 1 Miis kindly action. Karely a week ;;oes by without. tTio >:ib)cs recording an Kit hum boy having ; '<;one west." The lutes* name is that i>: "Bob" Mel.eod After finishing school- ' iiif! at Kltham he entered the postal ' Wl'vicr and was transferred to Strat- ' ford, where. be gained promotion and found a wife. Willi Jive bvothfrs at the front lie heard the call, ami 14 months aao the postal officials regretfully handed ' him a wristlet watch as a toVen of their esteem, and bid him goodblye. That 'goodbye proved a final one, as the sou! has departed from a badly-wounded body, and thus "finis" is placed to the life chapter of one who fell doing bis duty. His young wife and the 'ba.be he never clasped are the centre of sympathy, whilst his father, a. grand old Hielan' roan, will have to skirl the pipes as a lament for bis youngest. Originally seven sons, the eldest. Angus, was i drowned at IV. tea, and it was Bob, who now goes under, that was able to swim ashore when Angus drowned. The latter's body was never recovered. At three o'elo-'k on Christmas morning the floor of one of the bedrooms of the Central Hotel was discovered to be on fire, but was extinguished before much damage was done.