COMMERCE CHAMBERS.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19663, 24 August 1935, Page 3

COMMERCE CHAMBERS.

FUNCTION IN COMMUNITY. MATAMATA, Friday. That In America business people paid 'lit?li fees ror the honour or becoming members or a Chamber or Commerce, was stressed by 'Mr 11. K. Schofield, president or the Matamata Chamber of Commerce, in urging greater interest in the work on tile part or business people, In bis annual report. Mr Sebonekl said that in America there were, waiting lists ror membership; in New Zealand it was the Chambers, as a rule, which did the wailing. Some business men might Teel that Hie subjects discussed were above them, but ir they attended meetings it was surprising bow much In - formation they could gain from other members.

I'dscussing tlie future the speaker said lie thought before stable conditions could be .secured that some change would have to be. made, in the currency system. This Mew was supported by ‘some or ttin great Chambers or Commerce In England and therefore be thought members should take notice or and study tlie question. They bad to realise that times were changing and that hellers which were prized in the past now bad to be discarded. History proved that great reforms never came from experts, and so it was the duty or members to study such matters intelligently and record their views along the lines or truth and justice.