MEETINGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12726, 1 December 1904, Page 3

MEETINGS.

TRADES AND LABOUR COUNCIL. The usual meeting of the Trades and.Lw bour Council, held in the Tailoresses' Hall last evening, vis presided over by Mr. A. Rosser, and attended by some 25 representatives. A letter was read from the Premier intimating that th*>; council's protest against an e\tra duty' being placed on shoddy goods had been referred to the Commissioner for Customs. The Nottingham Organised Labour branch of the Tariff Reform League wrote asking the council's views on Mr. Chamberlain's proposed preferential tariff. It was decided to send a reply approving of-Mr, Chamberlain's scheme. ■ " : '' ' INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD TEMPLARS. v The usual weekly meeting of the 1.0. G.T. Lodge, Hope of Archhiil and Grey Lynn, was held on Tuesday evening in St. Peter's Presbyterian Church, Great North Road. Being an open night a large number «.? friends of the order attended. The Harmony Committee had provided a good p"<» gramme, which was gone through" ana thoroughly enjoyed by all present. -A pleasing feature of the meeting was club and dumb-bell drill by seven Beresfordstreefc schoolgirl*, dressed in white, led by Miss A. Clark; also a selection on the banjo and mandolins by two gentlemen and three ladies. Miss Hughes and Mr. W. J. Maodermott, who have both lately been at Ash-* burton, gave a very favourable report on the working of no-license in that district. UNIVERSITY DEBATING SOCIETY. On Tuesday evening. the University Students' Debating Society held their annual 011 a Podrida, when a rendering of original literary compositions was given. Dr. Dean Bamford occupied the chair, and a most enjoyable j evening was spent, '■ several of the, contributions, both prose and verse, proving of a very amusing character. At* the conclusion of .the reading a vote' was taken from the audience as to the popularity of the items. The first nlace, for which & handsome prize had been, donated, 1 was won by Mr. Howarth, with a very comical rendering in verse of the plots against Caasar by Brutus and Anthony. * The second place was taken by Miss Sylvia Dunlop, with "How I Learn French in the Vacation," and the third by Messrs. Dunlop and Hamp-' son, who united in a comic descriptive poem entitled . "Our Picknickeye." The visitors ° were entertained by the young lady students with refreshments in the j ladies' com-1 mon room, and a very pleasant evening was brought to a close by a vote of thanks to i Dr. Bamford.

MOUNT EDEN CONGREGATIONAL ■'.: SUNDAY-SCHOOL. ;

The annu.!.' tr> and entertainment in connection with ; tr--; Mount Eden Congregational Suqday-sf-aool anniversary was held ■ in the schoolroom last evening. ; The* gather* ings were both largely attended, espuciallj the entertainment, which was presided ovei by the Rev. W, Day. The programme, which was carried out in a first-class man* ner, consisted of pianoforte : solos by Misa W Irene Rathbone arid Doris Warner, violin '■ solos by Miss Eisdell Moore and Master C.' Ball, solos by Misses 'Le Bailiy and Totsie , Rathbone, recitations by Master Robert Young and Miss Totsie Rathbone, a due* by Misses Gladys Andrew and ? Muriel Rathtone, a gymnastic tixereise by Misses Wood- : ward, Jones, Bridgmah end : Seabrook, two, dialogues :by the scholars under the direc-" tion of-Messrs. A. Fisher and)B>Ewen, and - an notion song under the direction of Mrs. Woodward. * , , ,