CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 525, 23 April 1920, Page 4

CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE

AND THE "BUSY" WAN,

DRONES IN THE COMMUNITY

OUTSPOKEN CRITICISM

Resignations wore before the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, when one of the officers indulged in a little plain speaking. "It makes me heartily disgusted," he said, "to hear some people say they are too busy to give one night monthly to the'consideration of public business. As a matter of fact it is generally the really busy men who make time to woi'k for the general progress of the town. But some people are too sluggish to meet their responsibilities as citizens and although claiming to be busy, they are really drones in the community, accepting and participating in all the advantages of organised endeavour to which they contribute nothing." For the speaker's part he intended to accept the statement that they were too busy to give public service as meaning that they wene overworked in their shops or offices, and he intended to relieve them of his patronage, thus removing some of the overstrain which robbed the town of true citizenship . —Exchange. The above applies with crushing force to Pukekohe.