ANNUAL MEETING

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 79, Issue 7145, 14 December 1949, Page 6

ANNUAL MEETING

JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ELECTION OF OFFICERS The annual meeting of the Te Awamutu Junior Chamber of Commerce was held in the Savoy tea-rooms last Monday night. Mr Frank Miller presided. Apologies were received from Jaycees Alf Fear, Trevor Langley, Cdxin .O’Brien, Eric V<’reed, (Arnold Patterson, Jim White, John Hogg, Harry Bundle, Paul Page, Brian Hoare and Cyril Rickett. The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted in Keith Burgess being elected president. In thanking the chamber he stated that he hoped that it would have a successful year. He could do nothing, he said, without the support of the members and he hoped that it wouid be accorded him. A healthy membership and a keen spirit were necessary for the success of the organisation.

Pat O’Brien was elected senior vicepresident, Arnold Patterson to junior vice-president, Dick Finn to secre-tary-treasurer and Frank Miller to be the National Director. Bob Goodall, Jack Dili, George Warburton and Tuffy Burchell were elected to be the Board. Mr L. Truscott was elected auditor, and John Hogg to be song leader. Mr Bill Morrison was elected sergeant-at-arms.

After some discussion on the matter, it was left in the hands of the new president, Mr Keith Burgess to approach the superintendent of the Tokanui Hospital with a view to supplying some form of entertainment to the children who are patients there. It was stated that the organisation of the next Regional Convention would devolve on the Te Awamutu Chamber and a call was made to give some idea of how many of the members would attend from the chamber. On the show of hands the quota which had been allotted to the chamber by the Board was well filled. Blood Bank Panel

Mr Ward Burchell gave a resume of a meeting which had been convened on Monday morning in an attempt to establish a blood bank panel in Te Awamutu for the use of the Waikato Hospital. Dr J. K. F. Watson, in support of the panel said that there were far too many red faced people walking around who would benefit by the donation of a pint of blood. The operation only took a few minutes and it didn’t hurt, and one never knew when a relative or a friend would have their lives saved by a transfusion of blood from the bank. He stated that there had been a lot of trouble at the Waikato Hospital in trying to obtain someone to donate blood for urgent cases. The unfortunate part was that it was never known when blood would be, needed for transfusion. A transfusion could often save life, and in the case of children who had been badly burnt, it could often save weeks in hospital. What was needed in Te Awamutu was a permanent panel, not a band of people who gave a pint of blood and thought that their job was done, but people who would subscribe regularly twice yearly. Dr Watson recommended the proposal to Junior Chamber of Commerce as being a worthy project to begin the New Year with. Old and young alike would benefit by giving and receiving blood, he concluded. The recommendation was duly noted as having priority on the list of projects for the chamber to accomplish when it comes out of recess in the New Year.