WITH membership coming only from people who were in the city for its 100 year anniversary in 1934, Portland’s 34 Club seemed fated to run out of numbers.

After a diminished response to her invitation to this year’s annual get together club co-ordinator Evie Douglass told the group that had gathered at the Royal Hotel on November 19 that she had made the difficult decision to call time for the club, if they all agreed.