COURTENAY- PLACE AREA ASSOCIATION

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 48, 27 February 1922, Page 8

COURTENAY- PLACE AREA ASSOCIATION

A NEW ORGANISATION.

An enthusiastic meeting of business men and women was held in. the Paramount Theatre this morning. Mr.' W. Stuart Wilson was elected to the chair. :

Mi1. Wilson in addressing the meeting stressed the necessity for. forming an association to deal with important public matters for the good of the district, and also the whole city. Among matters to be dealt with were the dust nuisance, better street lighting, and advertising. Anything that would benefit tile city of Wellington, must bo of direct benefit to Cour-tenay-place as a business centre. A matter of Dominion interest was the enormous waste in the, marketing of our butter arid other products. ,

Mr. C. B. Norwood stated that as a City Councillor, he represented the whole of the city and not one particular ward. Ho gave useful advice to those present, and predicted a brilliant future for Cour-tenay-place. The following resolution was carried unanimously:—"That this meeting of re ; presentative business people of the Cour-tenay-place area, resolves that an association be formed to be titled the Courte-tenay-place Area Association with the object of doing all that is possible to develop this portion of the City of Wellington, and assisting in other movements for the advancement of the city as a whole and the Dominion generally." It was also proposed and carried that an executivo committee be appointed to draft a constitution, draw up rules and regulations, and prepare recommendations for the working of the association. The committee's report is to be submitted to another general meeting. The following were elected to the committee:—Chairman, Mr. W. Stuart Wilspn; scretary, Mr. W. J. Cody; committee,. Messrs. N. Aitken, A. W. Duncan, F. W. Laws, J. W. Martin, A. Preston, E. Philp, B. Smith, and A. Williams.