ANNUAL MEETING AUCKLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3717, 14 June 1883, Page 3

ANNUAL MEETING AUCKLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Auckland, This day. Tho annual meeting of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce took place yesterday afternoon, Dr Campbell in the chair. The annual report was read. The accounts shewed that the bank overdraft was £60 odd. The Chairman then delivered his annual address, and moved the adoption of the report, which was agreed to. Mr L. D. Nathan was elected president, and Mr Graves Aicken vice-president for the ensuing year. Mr J. C. Firth moved a series of resolutions urging (1) "That tho Auckland members pres3 upon the Government the immediate construction of the railway from Te Awamutu to Taranaki." (2) "To remove the obstacles to tho construction of tho second section of the Rotoma railway." (3) "That tho Auckland members tako steps to remedy the abuses of the Native Lands Courts, and oppose the resumption of land purchase by the Crown." He hoped our members would set their faces against such a wretched fad as the nationalisation of the land, although it seemed to find favor in some quarters. Nothing but land on freehold tenure would attract bona fide settlers to the colony. Mr M'Millan seconded the resolutions. Mr J. M. Clark supported the resolutions, and stated he attributed the indisposition of tho Government to aid the Rotorua railway to an intention on their part to resume the abandoned right of sole purchase of native lands. He had good reason for believing such was the intention of the Government. The resolutions wero put and carried unanimously.