Galway In Days Gone By

Developing Salthill

The Galway Bazaar, to be held during Race Week, 1922, will be for the purpose of developing Salthill and rendering it an attractive tourist resort. This is a project that has been all too long delayed, and its ultimate realisation must bring considerable wealth tot the city and benefit business people accordingly.

There are some who hold that the Urban Council, having once set its hand to improving South Park, should have settled direction in the matter of reform by continuing until this project was completed before it swung to another one.

Nevertheless, it is well that body has settled upon a definite scheme. There is no reason why the Bazaar for 1922 should not prove a record. Ireland will be at peace, and in this first year of peace, money will be released, confidence will be restored, and holidaymakers will hie them to the West, provided they are given decent facilities.

In this connection it is well that a bazaar held under the auspices of the Urban Council should not be a “profiteering” bazaar and that steps should be taken to get a register of lodging-houses and the prices to be charged. The bazaar committee and the Urban Council propose inviting during the coming week a meeting of all the lady workers in Galway.

We sincerely hope there will be a good attendance, and that local pride and patriotism will impel all who take part in this year’s bazaar to work for the development of the town in which all citizens have a common interest and pride.

Relief for Connemara

Mr. Sam T. Hutchinson, grand secretary of the Irish Order of Old Segocioners, has forwarded a cheque for ten pounds to the editor of the “Connacht Tribune” towards the Connemara Distress Fund.

“We have read with very sincere regret,” the letter adds, “the accounts of the sufferings which at present prevail in this district and we hope that this small cheque may be the means of bringing a little comfort to these unfortunate people.”

Mr. F. Cormac Walsh, the Irish manager of Messrs. Dunlops, Ltd., who is well-known in the West, is one of the grand-vice Segocioners.

This cheque has been forwarded to the treasure, the Connemara Distress Fund, the Mansion House, Dublin, together with ten shillings sent by Miss Asplen, 17, Windsor-road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, who read some articles on the distress in the “Daily News”.

Miss Asplen adds the interesting suggestion that the women folk on the island might usefully be supplied with knitting wool, which would give them something to do, and enable them to provide clothing for themselves or earn a little money.

“It is best, as you say,” she adds, “that employment should be found for these poor islanders.”

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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