COMING-OF-AGE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 899, 17 February 1930, Page 8

COMING-OF-AGE

CELEBRATION ARRANGED BY ACCOUNTANTS

The "coming-of-age” of the > Zealand Society of Accountants will 8* celebrated at a convention to be he * in Wellington from Tuesday. FebruaD 25. This is the second convention o the society, the first having been five years ago. The Auckland branch will be repre sen ted by Mr. J. M. Elliffe, a rnem of the council, and by Messrs. A. •_■ Seaman, H. C. Robinson. W. Crawtoij Young. E. M. Edgar. F. T. Eyre. Armstrong and H. R. Newman. r convention will be opened officially - the Mayor of Wellington, Mr. b. * • Troup, in the Town Hall at 8 P-nj-P" Tuesday, February 25. An will be given by the president, Air.L. Griffin. A theatre party has & arranged for delegates’ wives. Business will begin in earnest i following morning when ProfessorE. Murphy will speak on “Princip i of Public Expenditure.” Visits to • match factory and motor drives set down for the afternoon, ana 1 will be a social function in trie * ing. Addresses by Mr. E. W. F. and by Mr. W. H- Nicb*g A.P.A.N.Z., on Thursday morning ** be followed by the official dinner. The final day’s programme on . day. February 28, will include a by Mr. M. S. Spence, F.P.A.N.Z., reci’eation in the afternoon. . The society has now a member- • of nearly 3.900, including both P ‘ and registered accountants. In J ■ last there were 3.824 members, whom 457 were in the Auckland - trict. At the annual meeting neia * Dunedin reports were presented sne ing that many candidates are PJ* e - «. ing themselves yearly at the acc P v of ancy examinations of the Universi j New Zealand.