NEW ZEALAND SHOPKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 8, 9 July 1909, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND SHOPKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION.

A meeting of the New Zeealand Shopkeepers' Association was held yesterday afternoon. The president (Mr. IE. H. Seaton) was in the chair. On the niotion of Mr. S. Ross, it was clecided not to renew affiliation with the Wellington Employers' Association. Mr. Millington seconded the motion. A member of the association wrote, complaining that he was suffering considerably, in the matter of business, from the City Council's delay in the straightening of Willis-street. As it was, his window stood right back from the path, and was of no use to the passing crowd. The chairman said that he understood that the shops in the Hotel Windsor building were taken tinder Kie impression that the council would improve that part of Willie-street. It was certainly the case with the writer of the communication. The speaker thought that the council should complete negotiations re Goodall's buildings. He considered that if the corporation came to terms in the above matter, it could obtain a much better return than at present. Again, he thought it would be only fair to shopkeepers on that side of Willis-street, where the rent ran to £6 j per week for just shop premises, that the work should be proceeded with at once. It was decided that a letter from the association be sent to the City Council to the above effect. It was also decided, on the motion of Mr. Queree, that a list be kept of those people who are not good marks, or who forget to Oviy their debts. Accounts amounting to £1 were passed for payment. Two new members were proposed and admitted.

An Auckland lady, who spends much time in visiting the poor of the city, writes to the Stur, saying that there are •so ninny charitable institutions that they overlap' each other, leaving many deserving cases unrelieved, while others are over-indulged. She mentions one woman, whor-e hu&band is in full work, and vho is receiving help at the hanoV of the Ladies' Benevolent Society. One thing she noticed was that the poor of Hie Roman Catholic community were invariably attended to, while there remain;, very much to be done among the deserving poor of the other denominations. Ihe writer advises the employmuut nt wonwn lunpectov*. JHttny motherp will nrb make their troubles knowu.