FRENCH CLUB

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 113, 9 November 1937, Page 4

FRENCH CLUB

ANNUAL MEETING

The annual general meeting of" the Cercle. .Litteraire Francais took place last week, this being the end of the 1937 session. Mr. W. F. C. Balham, president, presided. ■ . The following officers and committee were elected tor 1938:—President d'honneur, M; Edmond Meyer (Consul for France, resident in Auckland); president, Dr. , Marshall Macdonald; vicepresidents, Madame O. R. Bendall, 0.A., Professor E. J. Boyd Wilson, 0.A., Professor F. F. Miles, 0.A.; and Dr. A. D. Carbery; secretary,: Madame ■ Ernest Finlayson;: assistant-- secretary, Miss. Frances Hunting-ton; 'treasurer, Dr. A. R. F. Mackay; librarian. Miss U. Tewsley; general committee, Mesdames Leo dv Chateau and Young, Miss Mead, Miss Smythson, and Miss C. Smythson, Mr. W. F. C,Balham, .Dr. A. C. Keys, and Mr. Wynne Mason; .auditors, Messrs. Clark and Mullins. In- commenting upon -the .successful session just tended Mr. Balham thanked the officers and committees for their work, specially mentioning Madame Bendall, who had directed the conversation circle, and Miss Huntington, who (assisted by Mesdames George Kay and Leo du'Chateau and Miss Lilian Smith) had superintended supper arrangements during the .season; also all those who had assisted with the programmes, the auditors (Messrs; Clarke and Mullins), and the Press. He regretted very much that the necessity for limiting his activities prevented him frotn standing for re-election as president. _ Mr. Balham referred to the. recent death of Mrs. S. C. Mackay, mother of Miss Allison Mackay (a former' assistant. secretary), and Mrs. W. McLay, motto of ..Miss. Margaret McLay, a present course of the meeting Miss I. Smythson, 0.A., and Miss Cecily Mead (retiring secretary and treasurer respectively), were each. Presented with a handbag, accompanied by compl - mentary. remarks made by the presid6The business meeting was followed by an ■ entertainment which, included some much-appreciated music. Two, compositions by Mozart were played ..by Messrs'. G. Ayson, J. Rodgers, Dr.-Keys, ami Miss Violet' Wood"(vioUn. - flute, I viola, and 'cello). Madame Betts-Vin-, ce.nt contributed songs and selections for the piano; her numbers were "L'heure^uise," "Si mes yen avaient dcs Ailes," "Le Manage dcs Rosgs, and Friedman's, arrangement of ' °*g let dcs Ombres Heureuses"(Gluck), ataSr e¥in& as?: s PtMadSf tm Iggjjd f * me's "Theodore cherche dcs aUumettes" caused a great deal of ljaugger. the parts being taken by Dr. Keys, Professor Boyd Wilson, Mr. I. J. Hills, and Madame Finlays,on. brought the .programme to a lively Bendall received. ■' j__ ' :