WORLD PRESIDENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26619, 15 November 1947, Page 6

WORLD PRESIDENT

JUNIOR CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE VISIT TO DUNEDIN Mr Taylor Cole, world president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce Internatipnal. will arrive in Dunedin next Tuesday. Mr Cole, who is a native of Midland, Texas, is visiting New Zealand in the course of a world tour of junior chambers during his term of office as president. Standing 6ft 3in and weighing 20 stone, Mr Cole is 34 years of age and has had a spectacular career. An oil geologist by occupation, he has bored 4000 oil wells, of which only two proved to be dry. Since being elected president of the Junior Chamber International (known as J.C.1.)), Mr Cole has visited LatinAmerican units, and last September he attended the British Chambers’ annual convention. He made an extensive tour of Europe, visiting Belgium, Holland, France, and Spain. The present visit to Australia and New Zealand will complete his world tour, the expenses of which have all been met out of his own pocket. It has been estimated that he has spent about 50,000 dollars already this year on junior chamber work. Mr Cole’s aim when taking office was to extend J.C.I. to countries which had chambers, but no international affiliations, and in this he has been most successful, five new countries having become affiliated in the past year. The world president, accompanied by two Dominion vice-presidents, Messrs S. Jacobs, of Christchurch, and H. Preston, of Timaru, will come to Dunedin by motor car on Tuesday and he will return north by air on Wednesday. During Mr Cole’s visit to Dunedin, which is as far south as he will go, a reception will be tendered to him, and members from the Junior Chambers at Gore and Invercargill have been invited to meet the distinguished visitor. Mr Cole will leave New Zealand for Australia on November 23.