YOUNG CALEDONIANS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 59, 5 April 1946, Page 5

YOUNG CALEDONIANS

formation of clans POPULAR NEW SYSTEM INAUGURATED

A fillup to Caledonianism in Whakatane should result from the latest move by the Young Peoples Club, that popular junior section of the local Caledonian Society numbering approximately 70 members which has played so prominent a part in the social life of the community

over the past two years. The club has re-cast its constitution by patterning its organisation upon the same lines as the Society itself. In effect it becomes a junior society within a society and at the last meeting it was decided to create a Junior Chief, and three Junior Chieftains who would head three divisions in the Club named after three prominent Scottish clans. Each clan will act as alternate host for the social evenings which will be held at three-weekly intervals in future and it is hoped to create that friendly rivalry between the sections which must make for an interesting series, full of new ideas in entertainment and in Scottish ideals. Last Monday evening at the first social of the new year (April Fool’s Night) a thoroughly enjoyable evening took place, with Mr Harry Mole as M.C. Mr C. F. Thomas announced the new status as agreed upon by the committee and named the clans into which the club would divide itself as the Campbells, the MacLeods and the Murrays. The greatest enthusiasm attended the division of the members into the clans above mentioned and when ..completed the Chief of the Junior Club was announced as Mr George Paterson, with the .Club Chieftainess as Miss Maureen Dines. The Chieftains of the clan sections are George Goodall (Murrays), Wm. Abbott (MacLeods) and Chieftainess Pauline Chadwick (Campbells). Each clan appears to be twenty strong and its members are tied by some link of blood relationship or of sympathy to the group. They will in turn undertake the running of future evenings the first of which will develop upon the MacLeods who we understand intend giving something really out of the bag. The event will take place in a few weeks time, and preparations are now well in hand.

The senior Society is watching with the closest interest the new development amongst the junior members and from what we hear are already becoming a little envious.