MERCHANT SERVICE GUILD.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 101, 29 April 1910, Page 4

MERCHANT SERVICE GUILD.

W_____S_TON, Thursday. Some 25 members of the New Zealand section of tha Merchant Service Guild of Australasia Attended the. -mail meet- i ing, which was held _iW<_i—agioa to-day-The president of -tie' gaild 0b Orion Stevens)."was in the chair. ■ "■'. -.:. In the report "(which was\\adopted) it was stated that"74 new member-bad ;. johted the ieetiqn during the year, thus • - bri_gi_g the membership up to 356. This number included practically *-' the' eerti- M Seated masters and ofii—js. —i. New Zealand waters. The yearhad, ago .been very successful in other' The flnanees were in a £520 had been added ttf the! reserve -fond, an achievemait gtttjßj, of that of any previous ye_r> *n - tne guild's history. Congratulatory .reference was made to the lorma6on of the Auckland -ranch of the _t_- during tha The whole of last ye_i v s ofiioerr **« re-elected, a* foßows- Mr Orton Stevens; Tice-preside_t,.Capta-i Hayward-, secretary Cap tain Watson;_ir_ltees, Messrs S. A. At- -■;■ ki-Sdn and R. Dixon; auditors, Messrs O. m S. Watkins and G. B. Hull.. ._ tee was spt up ermsistr-gof 40 members g| of I tbe guild, . I