COMMERCE CHAMBER

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 115, 18 May 1938, Page 7

COMMERCE CHAMBER

A JUNIOR SECTION v PRINCIPLE APPROVED The principle of the formation of a junior chamber of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce similar to those operating in other parts of the Dominion was approved at the Wellington v Chamber's meeting last night. It is the intention of the executive to convene immediately a meeting of prospective junior members.

I uThe junior chamber of commerce idea had been initiated in England in 1924, said the president (Mr. P. E. Pattrick). Since then it had been adopted in South Africa and fairly generally throughout. Australia. In 1932 a junior chamber was formed in Auckland and last year or the year before another had been formed at Timaru, and v. this year one in Dunedin. The executive had met and recommended the f6rmation .of a junior chamber of the Wellington Chamber. Mr. Pattrick said that he had had the opportunity of discussing Auckland's (experience in the junior chamber movement with the secretary, who was also the secretary of the main Auckland Chamber, and the president of the Auckland Chamber, and the immediate past president of the Auckland junior chamber and he was satisfied that very good results had been achieved.' Mr. E. M. Bardsley, the secretary, said he had interviewed three young men who were in touch with the younger business men , in Wellington" and who before coming here had taken a very active part in the Auckland junior chamber movement. Mr. Bardsley said he fett confident that a junior chamber in Wellington would fill a very definite need and would be very well repeived. He submitted a plan of organisation. * ( Mr. Pattrick explained that the formation of a junior chamber would not mean the formation of another chamber. Strictly speaking it would be an integral part of the senior chamber; it would really be a junior division of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce and would not make representations of its,own initiative to butside bodies but would refer matters to the senior chamber, on which it would be represented by a member. Mr. M. G. C. McCaul said that the members of tfie junior chamber at Auckland were doing very fine work. In reply to Mr. H. W. Bothamley, ihe president said it was suggested that there be an age limit of 35 for the junior members.