PAINTERS' CONFERENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 66, 18 March 1919, Page 10

PAINTERS' CONFERENCE.

USE OF SCRIM AND WHITE LEAD. REFERENCE TO SOLDIERS. {Bj Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. At the conference of the Federation of Master Painters of New Zealand a resolution was carried to the effect that the incoming executive be instructed to make an effort to arrange for uniform discounts throughout New Zealand, discount to be 25 per cent to members of the association and 15 per cent to the trade, and that no other discounts be allowed. It was resolved:—'"That this federation ask the New Zealand Institute of Architects, the Town-Planning Commission, and the Builders' and Contractors' Federation of New Zealand to join us in approaching the Health Department with a view to having the future use of scrim in the Dominion innde illegal; that it be a recommendation to the incoming executive to deal with the question of the proposed prohibition of the use of white lead, and that a letter be written by the executive to the Minister for Public Health asking to be notified if any action by Parliament is proposed; that this federation rake every means to oppose the Painters' Health Protection Bill as being unnecessary and against the interests of the painting trade."

The conference pledged its members to reinstate all returned men in their former positions, and to give preference of employment to returned soldiers whenever possible.

It was decided that the headquarters of the federation would be Auckland for the ensuing year.

Officers were elected as" follows :—President, Mr. P. T. Birch; vice-president, Mr. M. ,7. Bennett: auditor. Mr. G. Bradshaw; secretary. Mr. W. Taylor; treasurer. Mr. J. Hill; committee, Messrs. Tapper. Glading, and Kerkin: Parliamentary committee, Mrssrs. T. A. Well, W. Nicol and G. Godber.