INGLEWOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1921, Page 6

INGLEWOOD.

DANGEROUS CROSSING. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Many residents and frequenters of Inglewood are of opinion, and don’t mind saying go, that it is high time something was done by the Railway Department to decrease the probability of an accident, endangering life and property, happening at the (hump-backed level) crossing at the north end of the station yard. The ever-growing volume of traffic on the railway, growing as the harbor grows, combined with the greatly increased number of vehicles and people passing over the crossing, has brought about a state of affairs that justifies a claim for attention, before some actual victim is sacrificed to demand it. It is said that representations to this effect were made by Mr. Sutherland (the .Mayor) on the occasion of the recent visit of Mr. McViliy, and doubtless that was so; nevertheless a further reminder will do no harm. The sooner steps are taken to ensure safety the safer we shall be. THE BOY SCOUTS. There was a good muster of the Inglewood Boy Scouts at the Parish Hall on hriday night, when there were present as visitors ex-Commissioner and Scoutmaster W. H. Humphrey, ex-scout L. Gibson, Mesdames Crylls, Gow and McCormick, Misses Giddy (2), and Messrs, W. Eager, McCormick and Horner. The duties of conducting the evening’s programme fell to the lot of Scoutmaster McDermott, wlio, with the willing assistance of acting-Scoutmasters Messenger and Yeates, carried matters to a successful issue. The evening’s amusements began with a three-round bout with boxing gloves between Scouts Coldwell and Cole. After this had been heartily applauded \ rious games and exercises were carried out, and apparently enjoyed as much by the onlookers as by the actual participants. One especially, called “Dogs and the Bone,” was quite a feature. Tn it Scout W. Coldwell and C. Gudgeon tied for first | place. A.s a wind-up Scout McCormick gave a creditable rendering of that old favorite recitation, "The Charge of the Light Brigade,” and was loudly applauded for his effort.

S. M. McDermott, on behalf of the Inglewood Boy Scouts, made a presentation to their former leader, Mr. W. H. Humphrey. He referred feelingly to the good work that Mr. Humphrey had done, to the pains he taken and the unselfish way he had given his time and energy to the purpose he had eventually accomplished (that was the making of the Inglewood troop of Boy Scouts a really live and efficient body of reliable lads), and he asked the ex-Commissioner to accept from them a gold “Thanks Badge,” engraved "1918-20, Inglewood Boy Scouts, W. H. Humphrey, S.M. and Commissioner.” The recipient very warmly thanked the donors and humorously assured them that if they visited him on his farm, where he now lived, he should not fail to display the badge, when they, as scouts, would be in duty bound to "offer him help in whatever he was engaged upon. He assured them that no other gift they could have offered him would have appealed to him as the “Thanks Badge” did.

An adjournment was then made to the supper room, where a repast, ably prepared by Scouts H. Grylls and C. McCormick, awaited him. When justice had been done, as it was, and fully, by the lads as well as their guests, S. M. McDermott expressed th 6 regret that all felt on account of Mrs. Gow having to retire from the position of mistress of the Wolf Cub Pack, which she had filled so faithfully and with such good results. Her services to the movement would, he could assure her, ever be held by them in grateful remembrance. Mr. L. Gibson replied on behalf of Mrs. Gow and thanked them heartily for their kind expression of goodwill and hoped they would soon find some one else to carry on the good work.