INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 690, 15 December 1909, Page 7

INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION.

,' ■. ■. : ■ ■ I. ■ ... '.: >' : .' '-■-, ' ■ ii 9PALITY FOR'jEWEIiIiBKY; ■ »; Tlip (jeijprnf ppniraittjje.. of, the . ; Wellington •?■ Provincial Industrial Association , mot /last '■ night, Mr. E. Bull presiding. ■:' ■'■■■■; i: ■.■•: Messrs.'E. Bull, J. Smith, W. Cable, and H. ■e IV; Allen, (secretary). presented an; interesting v report on a visit -to Messrs. Kouse, Black and' ■i Son's carriago factory.' Eeforring..' to ■ the 1! coasbbliilding iodustrr. -generally, ...tljey : expressed a wish that all the other industries in the Dominion: were beipg kept as bnsy. ; Mr. '£. Ballinger expressed ■■ the opinion that n the newspapers ought to publish. ■jn '• full the 1," reports of , the visits paid to ..the .Technical. :'s Soliool by committees of the assooiatipfl., Hβ il,' alluded to ftllegations that had been inade ip j- tho effeot that there was too much inachjnefy ;o used.at the sohopl. Against this the.last ron port of a visit, written by Mr. H, P, Allen, y showed that the only machinery fpr tho wpodr t- .working olassos consisted' of. a oirpnjaf saw is and on (imary \rhee], stadflfltp bftvipg to do ip overjtljini by hand. .•: : :,;../.: ;' :-.'■.., ?, Mr. Allen read;an article from a >va(chn maker?' and jewellers' trnde journal I .qn aViCT it torian lce|slatiye proposal ■ for the "qualityn 'of good 6. It vas explained that :« the stamping, of: goods laecqrding ''to quality ir would b6 carried pnt by the', makers, subject jh to strict Q6venunent : offpers. . : is Mr.' L. 8., Partridje, speaking from his own 1. eipenenoo in Anstralia, sa»4 that the yrant ; of fmoh a sjetem' had led to: rery unsatisfactofy coaditione. Ho had seen 10, 18, and 20 ( carat wedding rings opt out of' tho same strip of gold. Owing, to similar practices in connection with certain other.lines of oheap jewellery, those lines were not touched by. the best sr, firms in New Zealand; It ,was impossible to }: have halls aad hall-marks hero, or in;Anstra.' ti Ha, as tlwy existed in England, where thero S wore four halls, and jewellery had to bo ? stamped there, the' manufacturer, not being al- '&. lowed to qso !an ; o|licial-nnalitv stamp. .Hβ ! lyonW ljke to :see, legislation hko that onder |( uotioo , adopted in' New '''Zealand:-'-if thei trade 7' wu big.enpugh. Tho value which good houses '• plaood uppii their own reputations '"affordod « some proteotion to the pubjifi.'■■:■.■■"'. ':■ ■' ■

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