The Daily News. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1916. THE NEW PLYMOUTH PATRIOTIC COMMITTEE.
The retirement of Mr. J. E. Wilson from the position of chairman of the New Plymouth Patriotic Committee gives u3 the opportunity .of placing on record the service he lias rendered the community during the two years he has been chairman of the committee, as well as chairman of the Taranaki Patriotic Executive and a member of the New Zealand Council, He has not spared himself in any way, his ability and time ever being at the disposal of the public. Few know the extent of the calls there have been on his time, nor the sacrifices he has cheerfully made in carrying out his duties. It must be said that his way has not always been made quite as clear as it might have been by those in a position to give valuable assistance, owing to their 1 desire to exploit the patriotic sentiment for self-advertising purposes, hut Mr. Wilson can rest assured that the general public appreciate his past work and support him in the posi* tion he has taken up that selfish pcttifoggying interests must be subservient to the control and direction of a Patriotic Committee answerable to the publis. It has been said that the local committee should show a more enterprising spirit and devise means of raising further funds, but it was no fault of the chairman that the Battle of the Bullion scheme, which probably would have raised thirty or forty thousand pounds, was not gone on with. He was keen to do so, as we believe a majority of the committee was, but it was killed outside, mainly because the public did not fully realise the working or the potentialities of the scheme. The war taxation now imposes a fresh burden on many people, which makes it difficult to launch successfully a similarly big scheme, but the new committee Bhould not rest satisfied with the present position of the fund nor regard itself as a purely administrative body. More money has to be found, and the ways and means of doing so must form on important portion of the duties of the new committee. |
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1916, Page 4
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363The Daily News. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1916. THE NEW PLYMOUTH PATRIOTIC COMMITTEE. Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1916, Page 4
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