CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7927, 7 October 1904, Page 4

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

The .annual meetingol^thev Chamber of Commerce /.held'v:'la'is|s/night -/disclosed"' through the.'!medium-of!.the Presidential address, 'of' business

that.comes beforea^bbdy'; ofits nature during the;year and-alsoVthe ,potentiali-. ties of such a-body.', • The record of ..business ' u^ is a j distibctly/creaitableone to the Chamber, but particularly to the members of the Council upon whom the executive work .falls. Though not obtaining, .in every instance, the desires of the Chamber in connection with the various tasks undertaken, the fact that desired alterations,! suitable to residents of both terminal towns and also to the, intermediate settlers, were secured.on the PalmerstonFoxton line,, that drainage and road matters in the. town and adjacent dis-. trict, respectively,,\vere galvanizedlife, that the milk supply of the-town came under official inspection, that, exteDsions of postal faQjlities in the Fitzherbert and Kakanga - disti'lets^were secured and many other achievements of a like nature recorded during the period prove conclusively the far-reaching effect of the Chamber in matters affecting the well being of the town and district. That the efforts of the Chamber to obtain the creation of a chief post office here, - with extra . savings bank facilities, were not : successful was no fault of the executive but. rather "the density'of a department that could not see, from the strong case placed be-, fore it, by comparison of- the business done here with other chief post offices, that the innovation', asked for. was in every way desirable and justifiable. Members :of the Council' have every reason to be satisfied with the result of their year's work, and they weil deserved the. eulogy of the President, while he,.in turn, received the warm com-mendation-of the annual meeting for his services during his term of office.