CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 9, 8 December 1937, Page 16

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

MEETING OF COUNCIL. KAPUTAIIA BEACH HOAD. The monthly meeting of the council of the. Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce was held last evening, Mr A. J. Graham presiding. Also present were Messrs A. P. Stuart, G. Clark H. L. Cunninghame, J. O. Boniface, J. A. Nash, 'I. E. Seator, H. G. Mills, l'\ G. Major, H. E. Edmunds, J. S. Hornbioiv, H. E. Townshend, A. Clark, E. E. Thwaites and E. G. Opie. In moving that Mr Graham be reelected jiresident, Mr Nash paid -warm tribute to liis services over a long period of years. Mr Graham was unanimously returned to office and expressed his desire to continue to serve the chamber. Mr K. A. Henderson was re-elected vice-president. Several committees were elected for the year. During the year the Chamber has exercised interest in the proposal to open up the Koputara Beach to the public by the provision of legal roading facilities. The chamber was in January last represented in a deputation to the Minister of Public Works (Hon. R. Semple) urging assistance, when the Minister stated that before anything could be done in this direction the requirements would have to be legalised. The meeting received a letter from Mr J. Hodgens, M.P., who drew attention to the fact that the Crown had no authority to use public funds for a proposed public road—at least it must be surveyed and dedicated as a public road, ■ and in this instance the Minister desired certain assurances from the local body which was to control the district. Mr Hodgens was personally very keen to see this beacn with a proper legal approach, and -would even go so far as to support contributions being made by the Palmerston North City Council towards the cost, knowing that citizens had a very natural right to facilities that could be brought so much nearer to them. If the chamber had any Rather suggestions to make he would be only too pleased to co-operate. Mr Hodgens enclosed a copy of a letter from Mr Semple on the lines of his own communication.

Tlie consensus of opinion was that the responsibility to take action no w lay with the Manawatu County Coun-

The International Red Cross Committee at Hankow wrote appealing for suport in ameliorating the suffering in China—Mr Graham commented that the New Zealand Red Cross Society was already active and was being fairly generously supported. It was decided to receive the letter and to point out that a general appeal had already been made. The president expressed appreciation of the gracious action of the Dannevirlce chamber in conveying congratulations on the occasion of the city’s Diamond Jubilee.