CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 161, 9 July 1910, Page 8

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

1 A meeting o£ the Executive Council of the Auckland Chamber of -Commerce was, ' held at the rooms, Swanson-street, yesterday, Mr. J. H. GunsoD, preeident, in the ' chair. OVERSEA MAIDS. Letters were read from the New York Chamber of Commerce and the Oceanic S.S. Co., acknowledging receipt of coinmunica--1 tions from the Chamber in connection -with getting the San Francisco service resumed. The president said the Chamber was waiting for the result of the tenders for the alternative routes of the Vancouver service, in , one of which. Auckland was a port of call, due in November next. He thought they might at any time find themselves able to open up negotiations in connection with the San Francisco people, and fci the mean- , time they could only await results. MANUKAU HARBOUR. I A petition from, residents on the upper i shores of the Manukau Harbour, asking - ' for support for a swing bridge in the new 1 Mangere bridge, so as to allow the passage ■ of light draught vessels, was sent on to • the Shipping Committee for favourable consideration. FIJI BOATS. C 'E. C. Salmon wrote complaining that after - he had booked passages by the Navua to s Fiji, the Moura, a much, inferior vessel, 2 was put on for the trip. He was "horrified ' to find they were expected to travel in s such a vessel," and thought the matter t Rimounted to a breach of cou- - tract. The president said .the Moura r was a boat on which a number of - people would refuse to travel. The quesi tiou was really the class of vessels in this - trade, and the Moura was not suitable. . On 1 the motion of Mr. L. Myers, it was re--5 solved to ask the Union Company for an • explanation. \ NORTH ISLAND WANTS. c Mr. Peacocke, reporting on the result of .„ the delegates to the Chambers -of Coni--5 merce conference at Palmerston. to consider c the best means of getting justice for the 1 North, said it had been decided to form a f North Island Railway League, each Oham- :. ber to nominate two members, and the lirst I meeting to be held in show week, 1911. it ;. was a loose bond, but the beginning of v united action, and might lead to some effec- . tive action. It was thought they should t only act as a North Island League on a general questions, and in regard to local •_ wants about which there was bound to be c a divergence of. opinion each district should r paddle its own canoe. Mr. Peacocke was c thanked for his services. f ' . HEMP CONTRACTS. • ' On the recommendation of the Shirmln" • Committee, it was decided to support the • Wellington Cnaniber's efforts to have i c "force majeure" clause inserted in hemi) s contracts. " ° MAIN TRUNK EXPRESS. . The committee had no recommendations l to make on the proposal of the Wellington >. Cnamber that the - SouHi express should a leave Auckland at 7.45 instead of 0.15 as at present, and the matter dropped. ■-'■ ■-- ~-•:• .....

■ NE-W MEMBERS. new members were elected, bringing the-total on > the books to dot). "INQUISITORIAL."The Parliamentary Committee, reporting on the complaint of the Nelson Chamber that some of the details required by the Labour Department in the census returns were inquisitorial, stated that they agreed with the contention. Mr. M. A Clark said it practically meant that one had to give a proflt- and loss account of one's business with a detailed account of the cost^ etc., of the different lines one manufactured., mc committee's report was endorsed.