MEETINGS Etc.

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 March 1925, Page 7

MEETINGS Etc.

W.C.T.U. CONVENTION. ... j (Per Press Association.) ’ DUNEDIN, March 25. The fortieth annual Dominion Con- ( vention of the W.C.T.U. will open here < to-morrow morning. To-night about ] 100 delegates were welcomed at a 1 largely-attended meeting., The cordial greetings of a number of kindred 1 societies were acknowledged by Mrs T. 1 E. Taylor (Christchurch) on behalf of 1 the visiting delegates. DUNEDIN, March 26. The W.C.T.U. Convention opened this morning, Mrs T. E. Taylor (vicepresident) presiding over a record number of delegates. The corresponding secretary’s report, which was'adopted, showed that many unions neglected to collect subscriptions, and many members were unlinancial. A welcome will be extended tjiis evening to Mrs Don (president)', who with Miss Henderson (corresponding secretary) have just returned (from a visit to America. RADIO CONFERENCE. WELLINGTON, March 26. The Dominion Conference of Radio Societies’ representatives was hold here, at the suggestion of the New Zealand Radio Institute' of Christchurch. Mr Slade (Christchurch) presided, and suggested that' radto societies should affiliate with the institute. Mr Marklew, institute’delegate, replying to a question, said that no society had affiliated with the institute at present. The delegates then became in/ terested in the institute’s right to nominate a member .to the proposed Broadcast Control Board, since the institute, whose, membership is only seven, did not provide for broadcast listeners, who now number seven thousand in the Dominion, ’ whereof eleven hundred are in Auckland, which is not represented at the conference. Dlr Slade, who is a member of ImtTi

the institute and the Christchurch Radio Society, was nominated as the Broadcast listeners’ representative on the Board. As, however, the arrangement was not considered satisfactory, the nomination is only good for a month. The delegates subsequently discussed the formation of a new Broadcasting Company, but the matter at present is in conference pending the completion of certain formalities. It was stated that it was impossible to say when the first high-power broadcast station was likely to be in operation.