A BIRTHDAY
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS
The United Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association celebrated its 28th birthday on Friday by an informal gathering.
Mr. E. E. Brooking, president of the Wellington association, said that September 12 was a red-letter day. because on that day 28 years ago the Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedih associations joined together* to form the united association, which had been of great benefit not only to the members of the constituent associations but ftlab lo the community in general. The USual celebration had been abandoned this year because the money could be spent better in keeping alive the subscriptions of members who were overseas with the forces. Announcing that Mr. Perry, M.L.C., a member of the club* would propose the toast of the united association, Mr. Brooking remarked on Mr. Perry's energetic activities on behalf of the soldiers of the Great War and said that the new returned soldiers could gain much by Mr. Perry's experience. At Mr, Brooking's proposal the h faith of Mr. Perry was drunk.
In commenting on the value of the United Commercial" Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association to the community, Mr. Perry said that no one institution in New Zealand had raised so much money as it had for the men of #ie Great War. Though the R6< turned Soldiers' Association generally looked askance at any body'other than the R.S.A. controlling funds that were for the' benefit of returned soldiers, it was quite content to allow the commercial travellers to control the fund for blinded soldiers, which they had raised and administered so ably. Funds set aside for the blinded of this war also would be administered by the commercial travellers. Since the present war broke out they had raised £56474 for' the benefit of the soldier*, and in doing it had contributed largely to the liveliness of the community. Everybody could emulate that spirit of getting on With the wartime job and not moaning.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 66, 15 September 1941, Page 9
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321A BIRTHDAY Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 66, 15 September 1941, Page 9
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