PROMISE NOT KEPT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 730, 1 August 1929, Page 6

PROMISE NOT KEPT

RAILWAY DEPARTMENT CRITICISED COMMERCE CHAMBER MEETS Recounting the activities of the Onehunga-Manukau Chamber of Commerce during the past year, the president, Mr. D. H. Kirk-Jones, referred at the annual meeting last evening to the continued success of the additional train service between Onehunga and Penrose, which had been established by tbe railway authorities at the chamber’s suggestion. He regretted, however, that although the Borough Council had made considerable improvements to the approach to the wharves, the railway department had not yet fulfilled its promise made four years ago to fill in an unsightly dump adjacent to Mangere Bridge.

The rules were amended providing for the appointment of the immediate past president as a member, ex-officio, of the executive committee. A request for a donation toward the building fund of the Onehunga Kindergarten was deferred until later in the year.

The Onehunga Borough Council was requested to proceed as early as possible with the erection of a women’s rest-room on the site purchased for that purpose adjoining the Orphans’ Hall in Church Street. The chamber is to meet in future on the second Wednesday in each month, and the president announced that he had arranged for Mr. W. J. Jordan, M.P. for Manukau, to address members on his impressions gathered 1 during his tour abroad. The secretary was instructed to complain to the police of the rapidly increasing number of cyclists in tlie borough who endanger themselves and motor drivers by not carrying lights or rear reflectors. • Messrs. T. C. Schnackenberg, .1. Pilkington and A. G. Houldswortk were elected delegates to attend the conference of Associated Chambers of Commerce, to be held in Auckland on October 14 and 15 next. They were instructed to support any remit that might be brought forward advocating an amendment of the income tax regulations with a view to taxing shareholders' individual incomes instead of the whole profits of limited liability companies. The following officers were elected:—President, Mr. D. H. KirkJones; immediate past president, Mr, H. J. Davies; vice-president. Mr. T. S. Bassett; executive committee, Messrs. G. H. Bray, J. Pilkington. J. E. Green, J. Clarkson. F. H. Dodd, H. A. Stoupe and C. F. Milnes; auditor. Mr. W. Yeatman; secretary and treasurer, Mr. A. G. Houldsworth.