TAIHAPE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 624, 29 September 1909, Page 8

TAIHAPE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

rrRST ANNUAL DINNL'K. v : t .(By TelcKraph.-Special Eoporter.) : r* l rr n m i. Taihape, September 28 Gretna Hall, Taihape, was prettily decorated *or -thft -.first ;anriTi&l .dinner under , tho, ( auspices of the local,.ChamKcr : 'of Comii';raerce,''^i^ftKeV.Tiatdb'Xww^ihevActiik-; Prime Minister (Hon J Carroll), Mr Nathan, '^.Messrs:';Jerinuigs,-'• Hogan,"'atiS -Smith,. MiP.'s,. :■ mejritete of- tho ,Wanganm, Ohakune, Marton: 1 Coriirterca,-the' iiii- ; '0-d' «Mdidaf<s /.in- coaiie'cticn ' inthCtKe ; tfe'Ra-" vi :"?P"Mi-Connty',Wun'cil,'.ahd otherdocal bodied- :- i 'A'-'James'UJresideht),'.occupied 'the chair'.' : y 1 - toa^-; of the' -.'"red to tho .■ fact,that his term 'of ;.pffico''as. was'-; about''to./ expire/ • Ho had, "ho tlie able ' the,position: - r9of.lnstability. .■:All..tho-rmombors -of> ■ I y/'hO'C&binet:, had,/worked,- ■ hard darinir ;( ; Si^ ; : V.«<>j*Ptt 'Ward's, absence; they had-;work«s : ,-.K?' they 'had-not- . / : P a Mded th'eiKw'brk. . (Applause.) '-He'fflrijflf : V:-.' when hohanded over; ' the.' reins' '. .of-.'office to ! the' Prime Minister, on Thursday l -, . .ilext. Sir JoMph Wotold; have noreason, to con- ' iClude. that .things had been' otherwise than well :^iM^^Whed;; ! hisiabsence. ;/Mr/ Carroll-' ! ''*:; , 'HSOVMpr?ss?dUiis<rcgMt>at:.thW:Meath : of the; : • .- '..late. Mr. Remington; - and. said .thafrvini^his ! ®P ll ' l Pn,V,hiScsnccessor,--Mr.. Smith,-wosra 'mdn'- ; . .•:. of/promise, and would,i-reflect', credit on :?his, ■ .::/.:-./ v: constituents.• Av the/'gathering l was. rioii-pdli- , tical, 'Mr. ;Carroll eaid that ho '/would, only : J c \brpadly:'pn:;;the;/Tarious* questions which • - were; agitating-' tho minds of -tho' people,'-and, l ' ' "f'or these'(as reported'elsewhere) '- , VO"''v'l l ft*'P ,:, *'! 6^»dM.-ct6- i *«ajr.vtliat*'- th'ore' wfis ■ no' m'ore : s intelligent community ih any part of tho ' . . ..' '.vorld thanJn-New: Zealand, 'and, l>y inference, ..... JtsyParliameni lwas not surpassed.'anywhere. l : .Wo i hayo,", ho added,, "a high standard of / Jwaticai -morality/arid -;tho keenness with; which, : . oiiembers'Cin'' all sidos watch;flTery>movement "of - I" 0 ' Party;ih; poivef:is;;a-'euarahtee 'to tho poo-'. ' r : abbve board."-:- (loud v P ;;■;//',;ftjH>!auso.)' ; ;-y -..'vr- ; '-, lbastsjhpn6ured' ; woh! ai foilow:-J''K6ar : !;'''^ : ::'v;®?3'«V#opns6d4yafr;:JerininKsV ; .J[.P.;vahd: : : /tvvTespond^-tO'TbyyMn.-Nathan'; "Tho'-Mayor-of , yaihape," proposed Hun-- - ■ ' , , ,ten*illo ) ';'and Mr. "Beechey,- ofßaunniu; "Ra-. - r ; ngitikei.'Electorate,"-proposed by Mr'. Hogan, . - - M.P., and responded • lb. by Mr. R. W.: Smith, : . /v'M.P: i'.'.'Sistbr -Chambers-'' of-.iQ.ommbrce," pro:I - '-. Pp'sed:by Slj'. T. A. ,Garratt; and -responded to .by; ; .'■l ■'a'i^v^.V;jlTarUne,|^f; ; 'Ayanganuj ) ' ; :and Mrj F.'.: >Piirriell .of .Marton; "Local' Industries," ipro- ' j.-jr.WnoSiil '•'.!)'..Cldrkson; '.'-"Taihapo ' : f'X<:.:(,'ChamMr .Of^Comme'rco, "-proposed,by;Jtr. : W. : i;:.l'.K-i-W^d^i : '--6^'®nhtßi i vfll«} "FarinersV -Union," •' ;'.- : .;-.;;> !J.*' Geoi^getti;' of Mangaweka; !^-.-i-' : "The;'ladies,'V.-. and.'"The