GOOD MORNING!

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 974, 17 May 1930, Page 6

GOOD MORNING!

WILL AUCKLAND ADOPT THE NEW CLUB? SPREADING CHEERFULNESS Will Aucklanders take kindly to the Good Morning Club, an organisation which has gained an immediate footing in Wellington and Christchurch? If so, trams and ferries will ring with the sound of cheery morning greetings. Many people in Auckland have probably not heard of the club, but the idea Is very simple—and it costs nothing: to join. All one has to do is to greet everyone with a hearty “good morning!” at the first meeting of the clay—even if it’s on the telephone.

Husbands, wives, the children, the maid, the cook, the policeman, the tram conductor, the office boy, and the girl in the telephone bureau—all share in the greetings. No distinctions are made in this effort to brighten the morning for one’s fellow-workers. The club holds no meetings, and its only officers in Wellington and Christchurch are a president and a secretary. The secretary receives applications for membership cards, together with stamped envelopes for the replies, which he dispatches. The president writes letters to the papers, reporting progress.

In Wellington the movement started ten days ago, and at latest intelligence the membership was approaching the 2,000 mark. The organisation has only just been formed in Christchurch, but reports are filled with optimism, and it is stated on good authority that the Garden City is beginning to look more cheerful already. From what one knows of the frosts of Christchurch, a joyous greeting should go well in ‘the morning there. Here is what one prominent Christchurch Rotarian says of the club: “I thoroughly approve of it. A cheery ‘good morning’ often goes a long way toward making the day a success, and the practice should be adopted by everyone. All Rotarians will approve of the scheme.”