COMMERCE CONGRESS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 301, 16 September 1936, Page 10

COMMERCE CONGRESS

Mr. C. J. B. Norwood’s Appeal At the Rotary Club’s luncheon yesterday the chairman of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, Mr. C. J. B. Norwood, informed members that September 29 would see the landing here of the delegates for the Empire Chambers of Commerce Congress. This was not a Wellington nor even a New Zealand congress, but was one which embraced the whole of the British Empire, one such was usually held in I London. It would be presided over by Lord Elibank, and would be attended by ■ the) largest number of distlnguished guests ever known at any such gathering in the history of New Zealand . • x , Mr. Norwood said he was not asking the club as a club to do anything; but he was appealing to its members as citizens to help the local chamber of commerce to entertain the visitors during their stay in Wellington. They would be its guests for a week. On Thursday, October 1, there would be a reception at the Hotel St. George in Ihe afternoon, and that evening there would be a function at Government House. On the Friday there would be a luncheon at the Town Hall, and on Saturday the delegates would be taken for a motor drive into the country. On the succeeding Monday there would be a civic reception at the Town Hall, which would take the form of a conversazione; and on Tuesday •evening there would be a complimentary ball in the Town Hall. Mr. Norwood said he wanted all his friends to help make the occasion one worthy of the city.