THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1922. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4412, 10 May 1922, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1922. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Members of the Paeroa Chamber of Commerce yesterday received the fallowing intimation with their notices of the annual meeting:

Nominations for Office, 1922.-23 President: E. Z W. Porritt, nominated by Mr G, Buchanan and Rev. F. McDonald ; vice-president—D. Leach, nominated by Messrs G. Buchanan and E. W, Porritt. For the four vacancies on the Executive Committee, J. T. Brown, nominated by Messrs .E. W. Porritt and R. Whitten, leaving three vacancies to be filled.

Several members, are wrathful because no notice'was given calling ,for nominations, the notice abovementioned being posted by the executive committee too late to allow of any further nominations for the positions of president and vice-president being made within the time prescribed by the rules. The onlooker will, probably smile at the adroit, yet apparently legal way _in which the executive committee has again “put one over” on the general members. The situation certainly has its comical side. But from the point of view Of public interest, it was unquestionably desirable that—rules or no rules—adequate notice should have been given to general members to put in nominations for the two most important positions had they so desired. As matters stand,- there being no further nominations in to time for the presidency and vice-presidency, the nominees put forward must be duly elected. The members need to wake up, or they will be left in‘the lurch “ad infinitum.” It now seems likely either that a vote of no-confidence will be carried when the nominees are duly declared elected, or that a progressive league or something of that sort will be formed. However, it is for the dissatisfied members to take action, which, by all accounts, they 'assuredly will do. The annual meeting promises to be a distinctly interesting one; in the meantime there will be a gallant marshalling of forces for the trial of strength.