CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 23 June 1923, Page 11

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

MONTHLY MEETING OF COUNCIL

Thei*e was a small attendance only of the council of tne Chamber of Comraeroe at cue monthly meeting held last aiight, iue&yrs Uougias, Jiennett, Sellar ana the.secretary (Mr.i Sage) being the only attendants. Messrs Murdoch, Mills, and McCarthy were absent from town, and an apoiogy was received from Air. Sutton. Matters m connection with the railivay' tune-table and the half-holiday question are dealt with in other columns. « The Wellington District Committee for the lirxush Empire Exhibition "wrote explaining that, being one of four similar committees set up, the Wellington Committee had jurisdiction 'over the district between Wellington

avid New l-'lyniouth., and it was asked that the secretary of the Hawera Chamber should act as the honorary representative for the "Welling.. 4on Committee.

It was resolved that the Chamber "would be pleased to receive and supply information on benalf of the Committee.

A circular letter was received from the Hamilton Chamber in further protest against the increased telephone «harges as unwarranted.—No action ±akeu.

A number of formal official and jjeneral notifications and communications received were duly noted or ignored as met the case. - Mr. Bennett, referring to the Week ior the Empire effort, voiced his ©pinion that the banks doing business in Hawera were not doing what thej phould in refraining from contributing to the funds when appealed to. He -4id not blame the managers personally, hat considered that headquarters should lave responded to such an appeal. He could not see why the banks, which were in business as much as anyone nsise. and got their business more easily, -should fail to support such a local effort. Mr. Douglas pointed out that the Franks usually gave nationally, and the replies from headquarters had been that the object did not come within the scope of their donations. He also referred to the numbers of applications which would be made if the practice was initiated. •

Mr. Bennett stuck to his point, but as the matter did not come within the .scope of the Chamber's charter, the net result was that- the protestant and the banker smiled amiably at one another and the subject dropped.