MINIATURE GOLF
NAPIER COURSE OPENED. SATURDAY' S PROCEEDS FOR CHARITY. After eagerly awaiting the inception of miniature golf in Napier, residents of this city flooked to the new post offic©, on Saturday night for the opening of an 18-hole course which is nlaimed to be the finest in tha Southern Hemisphere. The fact that the proprietor, Mr O. Elliott, had stated that the whole of Saturday niglit's takings would he handed over to the Plunket Society and the Hospital Radio Fund was responsible for a generous response from the public and all through ihe evening there was quite a gathering waiting for turns at eacli hole. It was an enthusiastic reception of a new sport which promises to eapture the public fancy to an even greater extent as more people have the opportunity to sample its attr action s. With a crowd of several hundreds present, the official opening was performed hy H:-? Worsliip the Mayor, Mr J. ATigor Brown, who commented upon the attractions of the course. He complimented Mr Elliott on his enterprise and wished the venture every success. The fact that the takings were to be_ given to such worthv eliaritahle objeots was stressed as a matter for partieular gratifieation by Mr Brown, wbo publicly tbanked blr Elliott for his. action. It was a matter for general satisfaction that such an enterprise, in heing launclied, should become tlie means of such a, large vaeant space as the top floor of the new post offiee being occupied. , Thanks were expressed by Mr Treyor M. Geddis, president of tlie Napier Rotary Club, on bebalf of tlie Hosptial Rad'o Committee, for Mr Elliott' s aetion in lianding part of tbe takings of tlie night to tlie fund for wireless at the institution. * On belialf of the Napier # Tunket Society, Mrs Hector Smith, monorary secretary of the Nap'er branch, thanked Mr Elhott for the donatlon which the society^ would receive. She gave an interesting sketch of the societv's actmties and ohjects, explaining the various phaseg of the work done. She also stressed the contmual need of funds for the important work which was being done. Miss T. Brown, dnughter of the Mayor, and IUr Geddis then played the first round and tlie course was thvown open lor play. , for the night amounted to- £19 10%
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 244, 17 November 1930, Page 8
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