YOUNG FARMERS’ CLUB
WELLINGTON COUNCIL FORMED. MR W. JAMES ELECTED VICE-CHAIRMAN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N„ June 22. A well-attended meeting of delegates from district committees in the lower half of the North Island at Palmerston North today marked the inauguration of the Wellington council of the New Zealand Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs. The Council has jurisdiction for the purposes of the movement over a large area, embracing Poverty Bay, Hawke’s Bay, Wairarapa, WellingtonManawatu, Wanganui-Rangitikei and Taranaki. In this area there are 53 clubs operating with considerable success and responsible to eight district committees, who are in turn responsible to the council, which has its headquarters at Palmerston North. The Wellington council is in turn responsible to the Dominion executive of the New Zealand Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs, which has its headquarters at Wellington. The duties of the council include the co-ordination of the work of district executive committees, consideration of problems, difficulties or disputes arising in its area, making'recommendations to the Dominion body and the promotion of the welfare of the young farmers’ club "organisation generally.
The election of officers resulted as follows: Chairman, Mr H. M. Linklater (Manawatu); vice-chairman, Mr W.
James (Wairarapa); secretary and treasurer, Mr F. E. Sherwood (Department of Agriculture, Palmerston North. An emergency committee consisting of these officers and Messrs C. J. Hamblyn (Department of Agriculture, Palmerston North), J. B. Chrystall (Manawatu), V. C. Lewis (Manawatu) and D. McGregor (Wairarapa) was set up to administer the affairs of the council. Messrs H. M. Linklater and A. B. Marshall (Wanganui) and W. James (Wairarapa) were elected delegates to the Dominion executive. A considerable amount of important business was transacted at the meeting and delegates left with a feeling that another strong link had been forged in a fine movement.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1938, Page 10
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