OLD COLONY CLUB.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 5 January 1923, Page 4

OLD COLONY CLUB.

•— ♦ — t ITS PROGRESS AND DEVELOP- . LONDON, Nov. 24. .Business men moving about the world are realising more and more the advantages and usefulness of the work being carried on by that very valuable business men's organisation, the Old Colony Club, from its London West End branch at 68, Pall Mall. In the United States and Canada, the mem-, bership totals 17,000, while in LondohWl since Mr. J. T. Horn (Wellington) beJ^ came L European business manger, thx> I membership has increased to 600, and i the Manchester branch is well estab- , lished and has a growing list of members. The French headquarters iiv Paris is going strong, while another branch has been opened in the Unter den Linden, Berlin, under the management of Dr. yon Bebber, a man with many business qualifications, and one . thoroughly conversant with the commercial conditions m Germany. Business men, especially perhaps from America, realise that'they can trade very advantageously with Berlin, and the establishment of a branch of the club in that commercial "hub" of Europe is going to be of great value. . With the view to promoting a, good international understanding a new branch of the club has been set up. sAf \ n th* Inte™ational Trade Dinner Club, whose purpose is to get together men of every nation to discuss any trade problems. A dinner takes place 'once a mouth, and the committee who are responsible for this side, contains a member or each nation-so tar there are seventeen nations represented by this body. There are no tormal speeches at the periodic gather." I ings, but a subject i* fixed, and a chairman, elected for one evening only, » to speak for fifteen minutes. There is no idea at all of political propaganda, the sole object of the reunions being that business men shall have an opportunity of airing their gnevances, and of discussing business prospects in a purely. friendly and priltn c hay- , t^ e cnext dinner-subject d will be: "The Stabilisation of Ex-J r£TV Vltl- P, arti^lar reference to C^echo-Slovakia,," presided over by the Attache of that country, Mr Neu- . mann I n Czechoslovakia, strangely vXf h' S e mark has iJ 5& T hlle •" M^bourlig countries it has depreciated to an alarming exrf,^UQ and ln neit£ er case in *h« circumstances can business be advantageously conducted. Forty men have constitute an average attendance, but applications from ninety men of seventeen nationalities Ph£T™ nts the T6 wili be a luncheon club opened in Leadenhall Street, with jl^pacity for 200. This centi? in the / t- -j will be very much appreciated by \S J£*V 2i ld i^ging bythe gratifying resuTt vnat has followed the inJJft n/a luncheon room at 68, Pall MaJl, the venture will be a great diXrrt^Do^ the ciub n°w include Lord Rathcreedan, Sir C. Macara Bt. (the biggest nian in. the • cotton business in the North of Enc- ' Oh!2;ii Slr H',l ritti&' Viscount de fa Chapelle, and Mr. F. M. B. Fisher. All business men coming from the? Do- • minion would find it very advantageous to themselves to get in touch with the '■ Uid Colony Club, for there is no in- ■ • quiry that cannot be taken up, and the traveller is quickly put into contact with the firms here most likely to be useful to him. It is a great convenience, too, that adequate secretarial arrangements are available to any who « have business correspondence to be at- v' tonded to, while the banking facilities ,*