Junior Chamber Ends Year With Social

Chronicle (Levin), 10 December 1948, Page 4

Junior Chamber Ends Year With Social

Its fifial .fuhctiofl . for „the yeUr was heid by the Levin ' Junior Chamber of Commerce in the St. Mary's Hall on Wednesday ,nigilt. The evening took 2-the form 1 of a tribute t-0 .'the "Jayceettes," "the wives of members. Ih the woras Of-the presi'defit, Mr. N. ThorhleV,it Was for members to "show their appifeciation ;of the long houfs " the w.ves had spent at home while'/ the husbahds were out . On J.& business.". * Opettirig with a serieg of filrrie, « :the fuiietiOh proved most .succeseful. ■ Mr. Thornley welcomed' thoSe present and said thaf, - lobkiflg back over the year, he couid -nOt say the organisation- liad attalned ' any speotacular achievemeiitS; but jt had laid .the foundations' for bfettet thinge ih. 1949. , - . ■; Ifl view Of the pending ,.0par!ture of.orie pf the most efi-. thusiastic members -of the chamber, Mr. C. W. Kirkwood Fyfe,- afld Mrs. Fyfe, for England, Mr. Thoriiley called.on Mr. R./ Antcli^^-lgi make a presentation to them^M'' appreciation .of. the work Mr?/E5^ had done. A finely -worked. 'hada^ sheil afidv New Zealand wood "ciga-* i'ette box was given to them. FollOWihg a most enjpyable-'.su'gr per, "Santa Claus" •appe.afed- ,dn the stage and dis'tributed. gifts ■iW the members' wives. pancihg' was tnen held, Mr. Fyfe oificiatjngy the piano. - -. \ Guests of the chamber for Jfie ■ eyehing were the president* ef/the Palmerston North . J.C., Mr; -Check, the-zOhe COUfiOillor for ;the% area, Mr. Gordon Kear, and - Mrs,. Kear, and the. . .Chairman of the! Horowhenua COUhty douhciL. " Mr. A. M. Colquhoun/ and Mrs./Cofqus: houn. ApologieS fof absetie6:''werj5 received from the . Maypr and Mayoress, Mr, and Mfs. H. B.'BuJtdekin, and MeSSrS. E. J. Stanley and L. A'bbott of the Weraroa Boys' Tfaining Centre;