TUAKAU.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 419, 18 October 1918, Page 1

TUAKAU.

TUAEAU PATBIOTIC LEAGUE The annual general meeting of the Tuakau Patriotic League was held at the Tuakau Hall on Thursday of last week.

The balance sheet showed a credit balance of £524. Since the completion of the financial year on Sept. 30th another Jb'4o had, however, been received. That represented a credit in favour of the Bed Cross Copper Trail effort of well over £SOO. It was expected that before the campaign closed the amount collected in the Tuakau district would amount t* approximately £6OO. The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as under: President, Mr Dynes Fulton (re-elected); Vice President, Mr W. G. Graham (re-elected) ; Executive Committee, Messrs J. McFarland, E. T.Frost, W. H. Northmore, G. A. Bevell, J. H Craig, Jas. Pirret, and Mesdames Hunter, Lewis and Leaman and officers ex officio; Secretary and Treasurer, Mr J. C Quinlan (reelected); Auditors, Messrs C. M. Osborne and A. H. Tapper (reelected). In order to fittingly welcome home a number of returned soldiers it was decided to hold a social evening on October 30th at which presentations, as a mark of appreciation of services rendered, will take place. A subcommittee was deputed to make arrangements for the gathering, tb« ladies present agreeing, on behalf of the Ladies' Patriotic Committee, to provide refreshments. It wat decided to ask the Chairman of ihe Town Board to welcome the men on behalf of the town district. It was resolved to forward a letter of sympathy on behalf of the League to the relatives of deceased soldiers.

Votes of thanks were accorded the Ladies' League for the assistance rendered during the year, to Mr Bevell ithe proprietor of the hall) for the manner in which he had studied the convenience of the League, and also to the auditors, Messrs Tapper and Osborne. It was decided to hold a meeting of the Bed Cross Executive on Oct 24th, in order to wind up matters in connection with the Copper Trail campaign.