ORGANISATION OF SCOTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12720, 15 August 1919, Page 5

ORGANISATION OF SCOTS.

formation of local CENTRE. The formation of a North Canterbury centre of the New Zealand Piping "S , aricm S Association was a subject winch occupied the attention of ■, meeting of those interested, hold in the Chamber of Commerce hall last night. Sir A le w° w lc nr al Scotfcish Society cliair A ’ Mac&ililvra y) v.dis in the n J ht ' said that the main objects of the association were to foster bagpipe playing, Highland dancing and the wearing of the national dress! Hie president of the Canterburv Caledonian Society (Mr C. S. Thomas) said that the association was strongly entrenched in Otago. Mr A. Macpherson, who was to have been one of the foremost m tho formation of a North Canterbury centre, had been detained on the West Coast, imd had sent S apology. Mr Thomas spoke disparagingly of the conduct of Highland dancing and piping during the past few years. On several occasions, he said competitions had been held bv Hiber" mans and judged by Englishmen. Ibere was negligence in the matter of HighJand dress also, and he hoped, in older that matters might be put unon a. proper footing, that the association would be formed, and that, in time one society for all Scots in New Zeal Ze “ land **“*»> On the motion of the chairman seconded by Mr Thomas it wa solved:— nf < ! I T,ln [ t this Meeting of the members v® 1 n i ul Dancing Association ot .New Zealand form themselves into a centre of tho association, to be known as tho North Canterbury Centre with headquarters at Christchurch, and tiiat all the steps necessary for affilia beffectedT’ 6 nSS ° ciation bG immediate-

I.t was further i-csolvocl, fit, the g,,*. ges ion or Mr Mealitigs, to comnuuiicatfl with South Canterbury in regard formation o? a br,wb there 3 Officers were elected as follow Jr resident, Mr Alexander Macphcrson * Measrs c - s - Thomas! A. \V. M Gilbvray and J. A. Mealing (secretary of the Kaiapoi Caledonian {society); executive, president, ,yice-n residents and Messrs W. G. Brass and A Eraser s committee, Pipe-Major J T '’r'--L k . m °/ Pipe-Major J. M’Ewcn, Messrs i bf Fraser, J - ! '- Aitkon. U. Malcolm, G. A. 1 antham (president of the Kaiapoi Caledonian Society) G Buisfc and W. Fraser; auditor, Mr J Mawson Stewart.

It was decided that for the present the offices of secretary and treasurer should lie combined, and that the appointment of secretary and treasurer and the terms of appointment bo loft to the executive, with power to act It was decided Ip refer to the committee the question of the rate of subscription.