LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 18335, 24 July 1923, Page 8

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

MEETING OF PROPAGANDA COMMITTEE.

1 A meeting of the Propaganda Committee of the League of Nations Union was held to receive a report of tho past two months’ work and also to meet Dr Gibb, passing through Dunedin. Dr Gibb is a member of the Dominion Union, and also tho president of tho Wellington branch, and he wished to certain matters in which tho co-operation of Dunedin, Union is desired. The Chairwoman (Mrs Cnrmalt Jones) welcomed a new member of committee, the Rev. H. E. Bellhouse, now resident in Dunedin. Correspondence was read from the Hon. Downio Stewart, the Rev. C. B. Jordan, and Sir Francis. Bell, the latter accepting the invitation to be present at the luncheon on August 6 arranged by the local branch to be tendered to the leaders of commerce in this city. Mr Pi/. Newton Vanes reported on his visits to the Methodist Church courts in Dunedin and neighborhood, at which he had pleaded for to the League of Nations Union, and with considerable success, for while three courts have yet to decide three have definitely become corporate members. In the absence of Miss Mercer, Mrs Leech reported as follows ; —The number of fully paid-up subscribers is 554, with eleven corporate members (not including those reported by Mr Vanes). Of these eleven there are nine trade unions. Thus these corporate members represent many thousands of sympathetic adherents. Prom all parts of New Zealand come requests and' orders for tho booklets and pamphlets issued by the London Union, of t which Dunedin keeps a stock. A local gentlemen, a member, has just compiled and published an excellent pamphlet entitled ‘Trades Unionists and the War. Tho routine business being completed, the Chairwoman invited Dr Gibb to bring forward his business. _ Dr Gibb explained that he was commissioned by bis union, as well as by the Dominion Executive, to approach tho Dunedin branch on the need for an organising secretary for tho whole of New Zealand, one who can carry out the duties of an organiser and lecturer, and who, by his enthusiasm, would help the smaller brandies. Dr Gibb asked for favorable consideration of this proposition. Ho congratulated the branch on its flourishing condition and the members of tho committee on the vitality and earnestness of their work. He was particularly struck by the propaganda carried on.