HELPING BUSINESS COMMUNITY

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21701, 7 February 1936, Page 14

HELPING BUSINESS COMMUNITY

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CIRCULAR

In furtherance of its campaign for new members, the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce has issued an attractive folder setting out the achievements of the chamber in the interests of the business community. The membership committee of the chamber hopes by the end of February to have brought its membership from 450 to 500.

Among the recent achievements of the chamber are mentioned its successful championing of the sliding scale of wheat and flour duties; the inauguration, with the Canterbury Progress League, of an investigation of irrigation on the Canterbury Plains; the introduction by the Post and Telegraph, Department of the business reply envelope at the suggestion of the chamber, and of the "person to person" telephone call system; the establishment in 1931 of a Boys' Employment Committee; the securing in collaboration with the Canterbury Manufacturers' Association of concessions for industrial and commercial users of electricity; the drafting of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce Scheme "for farmers' finance, later incorporated in legislation; the prevention, by representations made to ministers, of much harmful legislation; and the abolition by the Post and Telegraph Department of the zone system of charging for telegrams. Projects in hand included advocacy of the tunnel road to Lyttelton, of a new railway station for Christchurch, and of internal air mail services.