ACCOUNTANTS' SOCIETY.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17984, 30 January 1924, Page 11

ACCOUNTANTS' SOCIETY.

BRANCH FORMED EN TIMARU. (SPEOIAL TO "THE PBP.SS.") . TIMARU, January 29. A meeting of the South Canterbury Branch of the New Zealand Society of Accountants was hela this evening, Mr P. B. Foote presiding over a large attendance. A lecturette on "The Field of Economics" was "to have been given by Mr J. G. Johnston, B. Com., bus owing to illness Mr Johnston was unable to attend. The president said that the business berore the meeting was the furthering of the formation of a Students' Society and a proposal for arranging personal tuition in all law subjects. It was hoped to have suitable lectures on variious evenings during the winter. With regard to membership the society was open to all students of accounts and to all interested in enlarging their knowledge on commercial and legal matters. The election of officers resulted as follows:—President, Mr P. B. Foote; vice-presidents, Messrs. G. Johnson, S. D. Mason, and Jenkins; secretary, Sir H. Coxhead; committee, tlie president, vice-president, and secretary ex officio, and. Messrs S. Goodman, N. Wilson, and W. Allport; auditor. Mr F. Rasmussen. It was decided to make the subscription os per annum. Mr W. D. Revell, Councillor for South Canterbury on the Council of tho New Zealand Society, congratulated the students who were successful in tho recent university examinations. In the centres, he said, students had the benefit of the universities, but in districts like this they had not such advantages, and the idea of forming the society was to overcome this difficulty. The scheme was to enable students to get on with their work without extraordinarily heavy expense. They hoped to get conches for varions subjects. It was proposed to start off with coaching for an hour a week on each subject and give advice regarding reading and general matters connected with commerce and law. It was a pleasure to go into an office where the records were in order. The time had arrived when specialisation was undoubtedly necessarv. This applied to all clerics and snrns of the "bosses." If some of the "bosses'' were to attend the lectures thev would probably find them of inestimable benefit. Another great .advantage of membership of the society was personal tuition.' Writing awav to n coach in some other part of New Zealand would be done away with, and a student if donbtfnl on any particular point could immediately ask the coach. Then, a?ain, discussion was an excellent medium of advancement. Mr G. A. Hansard gave details to the meetinsr of the classes to be held at the Technical School.