CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10215, 10 December 1898, Page 4

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

The monthly meeting of the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce took place yesterday. Mi A. H. Turnbull, president, in tke chair. Apologies were received from Messrs Gribbs, Quane, and Frostick. The report of the Sectional Committee appointed to consider the standard grain charter partywas received and'adopted. It was decided to forward the suggestions contained in the report to the Sydney Chamber of Commerce, and to ask them to keep the Canterbury Chamber advised as to action taken, so that united efforts might be made. Correspondence was read as under:—From the Railway Reform League, asking for the subscription of the Chamber, which it was agreed to forward. From the Union Steamship Company, General Post Office, Wellington, and General Manager of Railways, re detention of the Melbourne steamer at th. Bluff. The Union Steamship Company stated that it would be possible for them to carry out the suggestion during the summer, but not during the winter. The Railway' Department stated -hat the passenger traffic would not justify the running of special trains, which the detention of the steamer would involve!. The PostmasterGeneral called attention to the altered timetable service, by which a mail to Sydney would be available to the Australian colonies every week, instead of every ten days as heretofore. It was decided to communicate further with the Postmaster-General on the subject. From the Cheviot County Settlers' Association, asking che Chamber ito support the proposal for a railway to Cheviot. , It was decided that the Minister of Railways be urged to give effect as early as possible to the request of the Association that a detailed survey and estimate of the cost of extending the railway from Waipara to Cheviot should be made. The question of the Thursday half-holiday being extended to wholesale houses and offices was discussed, but no definite resolution was arrived at. It was suggested that Monday and Tuesday, 26th and 27th December, and Monday and Tuesday, 2nd and 3rd January, be observed as holidays. The meeting then adjourned.