ROTORUA NEWS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 986, 31 May 1930, Page 5

ROTORUA NEWS

The annual meeting of the Rotorua Co-operative Terminating Building Society was held on Wednesday, Mr. P. Jervis presiding. The report showed profits in the first group to be £602 19s 9d, the total profits being £4,134 3s sd, equivalent to £5 3s 3d a share. The total advances to members amount to £17,400. Two sums of £2OO and £4OO were secured by ballot, and an appropriation by sale of £6OO. • Messrs. Gainsford, Pakes. and Steele were elected to the directorate. The Returned Soldiers’ Association executive met on Thursday evening to discuss conditions under which Keporoa settlers are working. Mr. C. H. Clinkard, M.P., and members of the Reporoa Settlers’ Association, were j present. ! Mr. Clinkard said he had visited the settlement, and was well acquainted with the whole facts, and offered his ! services to assist them, j All subscriptions in arrears at I March 31 were cancelled, and all rej turned men are to be requested to join the association, so that their ap- ! peals will have the weight of numbers.

j A meeting of the Rotorua Rod and Gun Club was presided over by Mr. I D. George. j A letter was received from the i Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. I P. A. de la Perrelle, advising the club i that its efforts toward the unification j of control of acclimatisation matters j in the district had been successful, and that his department would take over ! the management from the Tourist | Department in the near future, j The annual meeting of the club has 1 been arranged for Thursday, June. 26.