BUILDERS' CONFERENCE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1286, 15 November 1911, Page 6

BUILDERS' CONFERENCE.

OUR TJMHKIt SUPPLIES. <B/ Tclrgr»,ph~l'rcss Association.) Auckland, November H. Tho t.TT'iiffh annual conference, of the Uc.-'i //-.aland Federated Builders' Association opened in flio Chamber of Comment this afternoon, tho president f.\fr. rf. I. Clarke) cxxuiiyirie the chair. Many delegat/w from wmthern cctnlres wi-re pre(Afii. fn hi« pr«tidentia.l address, the eliaimian said their presence iviw a proof that they rW'jrnJW tho n(«I for mutual help and combined iiffort. Unionism was only another name for associated btrcnfjth, M,ii whether they liked the principle or liked it not, it was a iircMmt-day fact, and a f.v;tor which mnst not bo met with by d'nuinciation and complaint. Tbyj only thing to do w;ia to meet organised effort by equal or suiierior organisation. Inferring to the timber supplies of the ])ominion, ho Kw'd that r«c«it and pn«mt exjienenco was conclusively proving the correctness of tho position taken ui> bv tho federation in respect of the urgent necessity for a mere complete control of the natural resources of our forests, and the need Cor a moro extensivo and SVfi. tomatic scheme for tho afforestation 'of waste lands.

Ihe executive committee, in their annual report, express**! Die oninion that tho revised conditions of contract wcro proving eminently satisfactory to tho trade, and were in manv respects an improvement on tboso they superseded. Reforenco was also made to tno quostion of the registration of builders. "Tho treatment of this matter by tho New ikaland Federation is being keonlv watched by builders' associations in other countries, tho committee remarks.