CANTERBURY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
SPEECH BY MR. SEDDON. [nr TRLKahApn— frbss association.] CIIIUSTCHUKCII, 241h August. The Canterbury Chamber of Commerce held its annual luncheon and meeting today. Mr. Seddon was nmong the viaitRoplying to the toast of his health, tho Premier referred to tlio valunblc services rendered to the country by the Chambers, urging that they should work hand in hand with the Government in preserving the colony's intereata. Now Zealand, he said, must do the same as Canada, which was elbowing New Zealand out of South Africa by sending fully equipped steamers with quantities of produce from port to port of that country. ' Canada would not stop at South Africa. In the annual report epeoial reference was made to tho progress of tho Midland Railway and the Products Export Act, the Chamber ondorsing the recommendation of it* Produce Committee to oppose the adoption of a compuliory grading of grain as restrictive to tho trade. Mr. W. D. Meores, in his presidential address, »pok« with satK*faction of tho increase of exports and imports and coptinuation* of a close settlement policy. Referring to the birth-rate, he snid the Legislature made one of the greatest mistakes in abolishing assisted immigration.
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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 48, 25 August 1904, Page 5
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198CANTERBURY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 48, 25 August 1904, Page 5
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