CONFERENCE OPENED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 31, 7 February 1939, Page 8

CONFERENCE OPENED.

DOMINION PLUMBERS. KI.KCTION OF COMMITTEES. The annual conference of the New Zealand Master Plumherw' Federation was opened yesterday by the deputyMayor, Mr. J. .\. C. Allum, in the absence of the Mayor, Sir Ernest Davit*. The conference is the first to be held in Auckland for some years. Mr. Allum said the great question before the conference was not so much that of man-hour production as the maintenance of a high standard of plumbing throughout the Dominion. In that the delegate* had a high civic duty. Ho was sure that delegates would lime the co-operation of the local bodies, as they had had in the past. He could assure them, he said, of the support of the City Council in the remit urging the uniformity of local body by-laws, for that was not only in the interests of the trade but ulno of the general public. A committee consisting of the president, Mr. K. J. Bell (Wanganui) ami Messrs. (!. Fredric (Invercargili) and J. I£. (Irny (Auckland) was set up to censor the minutes of the conference before submitting them to the official journal of the federation for publication. Other committees were elected as follow:—District vice-president*)' reports committee: Mews. A. S. Quennell (Dunedin), K. H. B. Hoi ben (Mannwatu), A. P. Hart noil (Auckland), W. S. Thomson (Wellington), <). (i. Lewis (rimaru). Plumbers' Board mutters com in it tee: Messrs. F. Nicholson (Auckland), K. Wainwright (Wellington), F. L. Home (Chrwtchurch), G. Fredric (Invercargili), T. W. Knox (Dunedin), A. K. Milne (Taranaki). The annual report and balance-sheet were read and adopted.