JUNIOR CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28130, 20 November 1956, Page 18

JUNIOR CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE

STRONGER TIES WITH BRITAIN VIEWS OF PRESIDENT OF BODY IN U.K. The congress of Junior Chamber International in Wellington had shown him how junior chambers throughout the world applied the basic ideals of the movement to local needs and this would probably result in stronger ties between’ Britain and the Dominions, said the president of the United Kingdom Junior Chambers of Commerce (Mr Mervyn Andrewes) in an interview in Christchurch. The United Kingdom organisation would like to co-operate with New Zealand and Australian representatives in London so that more information would be available to visitors to England, and so that trade conferences held there could be conducted more smoothly. Mr Andrewes said.

The English organisation existed primarily for commercial purposes and there was little of the direct community effort which junior chambers carried out in other parts of the world, he said. In an indirect way, by serving on local bodies, the English members did contribute to the community. They considered their main task to be the training of young men to study and solve business problems. The world president of Junior Chamber International (Mr A. de Oliviera Sales), who was with Mr Andrewes in Christchurch, said the congress had accomplished more than any other he had attended. Twelve new countries had been accepted as members of the organisation, three | more would probably be admitted next year. In the future, speeches and addresses at junior chamber meetings all over the world would be exchanged on tape recordings, he said. In the field of education, more and more junior chambers had implemented an international scholarship scheme begun by Junior Chamber International in 1954.

As president of the world organisation, Mr de Sales has visited more than 140 towns and cities in 60 different countries in seven months and a half.