REPRESENTATIVE OP EMPLOYERS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21972, 22 December 1936, Page 6

REPRESENTATIVE OP EMPLOYERS

RECOMMENDATION FOR -.'-*- GENEVA -CONFERENCE^***

-Mr "William'E. Anderson, secretari of the Auckland Employers' Association, has been recommended for nomination «s .employers' representative #t the .next International Labour Conference at Gerie.va by the president;',vics? treasurer of the New Zealand Employers' Federation. Tbe-rer, commendation is being made to industrial unions of employers, which have received circulars from the Labour Det>srtment: asking for nominations. In a circular giving notice of the recommendation, the secretary of the federation, Mr T. O. Bishop, states that it has not been possible to call a meeting of the advisory board to consider the matter, but that the ' president, vice-president, and treasurer are of the opinion that the discussion at each of the two'last annual conferences is a sufficient;, authority for confining selection to secretaries of employers associations. In conveying a strong recommendation from the executive officers in favour of Mr Anderson's nomination, the circular from the federa-y Jion states that he was acting-secretary,, :t>f the federation for seven months during Mr Bishop's absence in < IWfcrf that he has- long experience of the work of the Auckland association, and that he-is thoroughly Well versed in. industrial legislation and the indgff ; trial conditions of New Zealand. Th3,= office of the federation undertakes t<£obtain Mr Anderson's consent for any* nominations, that are forwarded. J