AUCKLAND ZIONIST SOCIETY.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 195, 16 August 1920, Page 2

AUCKLAND ZIONIST SOCIETY.

I A.VXI'AL MEETING. The annual meetin;: of the . Auckland ' Zionist Society was held in rb« Synas-ojrne | Schnolris.m yesterday afternoon. Rev. S. I -\. J .ioMdteiti. president, ocelrpied ihe .-hair. The annual report stated that the year had , been rbe most successful in tbe history of I the society. During the ypnr the society . had received two legacies for the prrrciase [of land in Palestine. Reference was made I to the inclusion in the Peace Treaty of the j .BalTour Declaration in favour of a .Tewtfiri i national home in Palestine. Every Jew felt a deep Ben.se of gratitude to Great Britain, which had so consistently shown its sympathy for Zionism and ultimately made it one of her declared war aims. The income of th** s<x-rpry diiring the past year was fioeo In . Over £1000 had been raised iin Xew Zealand for the Palestine Restoration Fuud. The meeting atnid enthusiasm j passed a resolution expressing profound I gratitude to Great Britain for i:.> recognition of Palestine as a Jewteh national home. , The Hon. A. M. Myers, M.P.. was r~-electel honorary president and Rev. S. A. Goldstein president for the ensuing year.