CELTIC CLUB.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1752, 17 May 1913, Page 6

CELTIC CLUB.

THE SUBSCRIPTION RAISED. ' There was a satisfactory attendance at tho adjourned general meeting of tho Celtic Club, which was held at the Grand Hotel on Thursday evening. Mr. J. J. M'Urath presided. The previous meeting had been adjourned in order that members might cousider at leisuro a proposal- to raise the. annual subscription from 10s. to XI. Tho chairman said tiiat although the club had wound up its first year with a credit balance of about .£6, it was duo to the fact that two life-members'' subscriptions were included in last year's revenue; also two members had paid for two years in advance. Tho executive considered that the club could not carry on unless tlio subscription was raised, or there was a very large accession of members. Owing to lack of funds, it had been impossiblo so far to print two lectures delivered Inst season—ono on "Robert Burns," by Dr. Caliill, and ono on "Mr. Lloyd-George," by Mr. D. M'Laren— though ho hoped lo see them printed shortly. After somo discussion it was unanimously agreed that the subscription should bo raised from 10s. to wl. Tho chairman said that if thero was a large accession of members the club could then consider the ndvisabiGiiesS of reverting to the 10s. subscription. Mr. M'Laren suggested, as a means of making tiio club better known, that they should endeavour, to have affiliated members from the Welsh, Scottish, and Hibernian Societies. There were' a lot of Celts of the three nationalities in Wellington, and thero ought to bo moro social intercourse amongst them. Dr. Ca'hill said he had seen Professor M'Kcnzie, of Victoria College, who had expressed his willingness to deliver a lecturo: it would probably be, of a Celtic character. Mr. Galvin suggested that the club should endeavour to got a copy of a lecture delivered somo years ago on "Celtic Art," by Archbishop Carr, of Melbourne. He believed it had been printed. Several other suggestions, wero mado for widening the basis of the club, and tho chairman promised that the matters referred to would receive the careful consideration of the executivo. Ho stressed the fact that the club was non-seetarian and non-political. A man's religion or politics was no concern of theirs. That could not bo too widely mado known.