THE OVERSEAS CLUB.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 201, 11 August 1911, Page 4

THE OVERSEAS CLUB.

Members of the Overseas Club in New Zealand will be glad to learn, of the substantial and gratifying progress of the organisation. According to the “Daily Mail” the first meeting of the Club was held in London on June 27th. Representatives were present from nearly one hundred of the 1800 branches which are formed or forming all over the world, from Teheran, the capital of Persia, to Dawson City, in the Yukon; from Valparaiso, Chili, to Limoru, British East Africa. There, were members of his Majesty’s forces present from the Diamond Fields Force. Kimberly, the Volunteers, the Imperial Light Horse, Transvaal, and the Kimberley Regiment, all in the uniforms of their corps. About half of the 300 members at the meeting w’ere ladies and nearly everyone wrore little bunches of red, white and blue sweet peas, this flower having been adopted as the-floral emblem of the club. All those members present prominently wore their badge. At the opening of the meeting the club motto, consisting of Tennyson’s four lines, were sung to the tune of the Old Hundredth. The greatest enthusiasm was displayed by all those present, and the announcement tlrat the membership of the club now reaches 50,000 was greeted with loud and prolonged cheering. There were many interesting and praiioLic spscchcs dclivoicd and the discussion of purely club matters showed that the keenest interest was being taken in the organisation.