BENEFIT CLUB.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 4, 2 April 1842, Page 15

BENEFIT CLUB.

We beg to call the attention of our readers to the subject relative to which a letter and advertisement appeared in our first number. The advertisement gave the resolutions adopted at a meeting of the emigrants on board the barque. Mary Anne, during her voyage out, in which is recorded the opinion, of the meeting as to the advisability of .establishing a benefit club in the settlement of Nelson. The letter froni Mr. Young, who was in the chair at that meeting, and also one of the provisional committee then appointed, announces the intention of the coinjnittee to resign the office committed to them into the hands of the public, at a meeting to be held on Saturday next, the 9th " of April. The committee, in accordance with the expressed object of their appointment, have drawn up a series of regulations, which it is their intention on Saturday next' to submit either at once to the public, or to any new -committee that may/ be appointed for the purpose. We think it unnecessary to dwell upon the advantages, supposed, or real, of societies of this description. As to their operation, when properly conducted, we j hold an opinion decidedly favourable. At j the same time, we believe that, in all regards, it is better to leave such matters to the decision of the body really interested ; and our reason for now menti/onin^ the subject is to submit to that portion of the (public who may imagine themselves less immediately interested, ' the propriety of taking every opportunity of showing their good feeling, by attending all meetings which have, or appear to have, for their object the benefit of the operative classes ; and also to supply an answer to a rumour which is afloat, that the whole matter is dropped, and that tbe committee have given up the intention of performing the most important part of their duty, that of laying before the public the result of their labours.