CARPENTERS IN CONFERENCE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 576, 3 August 1909, Page 6

CARPENTERS IN CONFERENCE.

THE'DELEGATES. A' conference of delegates' representing, th« -Now Zealand branches of 1 the. Amalgamated Society of- Carpenters '-atidy'Joinwrf , ',W«*">«'P? feiied' in the;'To\vri HaU; vestcHay 'niornuig, and-iB expect'to.sit'until Wednesday; The -delegates present arc: Meiers.* G. BlawiJi'- s wick.-.Wellington- CentralC. Auger,' Wei-'; lington North; 7 J. Stobart," Wellington; East; W. Wagstaff, Wellington South.; Jas. . Bar* ras, -Brooklyn; H;: Banfield,_ Auckland; r J, Brownj 'Dilhedin ; F., A.' Moody, ■ Christ;'AV.'Ween, l'etonb: J. Ball, Lower 'Hutt; Napier.: A; Aporley, 'Hastings;' J; 'Scottj :Gis¥orne; W;.- Bathbone,'WanganiiirF. P. Hoycs;.Rotorua; and . W.' Ch'eel,■.'Nelson. ; '. ' . ' ' Mr. 1 ' was elected.'chairman, Mr. Brown-' vice-chait-nian; 1 and' Mr. F. W'tellihgton, conference secretary. . . • /'The' business 'transacted yesterday war ' purely of a."preliminary character! "but the conference ' will cbiimenco serious \ business to-day. One of the principal objects' of ■■tho conference is to endeavour to improvo'th» conditions of the whole'.society in a'finan*. cial direction. At; present tho arrangement existing botwqen New Zealand and"thb;old ■ Country headquarters is not altogether satis, factory, and one matter to bo discussed will ' be the moans of "inking alterations in the/ rules which will improve tho general conditions. Several remits deal with 5 the work» ine conditions' of! tho trader.: and ' cover schemes for the :l«tter organisation of: tho trade in tho country districts; The /most important, questions, however,; ddal .with 1 tin management: of. tho affairs 1 of ;tho_. sioiety i in New Zealand in the direction of civing'fullei local control ■ for the District Conimittee, •which is: practically i the' Now Zealand' ei.e- ' icutivo of. the' society. .