EMPLOYERS' FEDERATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 104, 29 October 1913, Page 8

EMPLOYERS' FEDERATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE.

The annual conference of the Now Zealand Employers' Federation commenced its deliberations this morning under' tho presidency of Mr. W. Hopkirk. Delefates present, representing the associate ranches of the federation, were as follow: Auckland, Messrs. E. lA. Craig, G. A. Coles, W. J. Jaggs, and Hi WJ Hudson; Poverty Bay, Mr. Jame« Brown; Hawkes Bay, Messrs. P. Barry, H. J. Bull, S. E. Wright (secretary); Wairarapa, Mr. C. At Tabutoau , (secretary); Wanganui, Messrs. G. Caiman and J. W. Williams (secretary) ; Manawatu, Messrs. C. F. Johnston, F. J. Nathan, and W. M'Kenzie (secretary) ; Feilding, Mi 1 . F. Pirani ; Wellington,' Messro. T. Ballinger, J. Godber, W. J. Thompson, and W. A. W. Grenfell (secretary) terbury, Messrs. H. D. Acland, J. A. Fwwfcick, F-. W. Hobbs, K. F. England, and J. R. HaywaTd; South Canterbury, Messrs. R. R. Bowie and W. G. Irwinj Otago, Messrs. J. W. Henton, G. Simpson, and W. Scott (secretary) ; and South, land, Messrs. S. Craig and A. S. Cookson (secretary). Other assoctaiions were represented fts follow : Now Zealand Coal Mine Owners' Ae&ociation, Messrs. W. A. Flavell and G. G. Townseitd ; Now Zealand Gold Mine Owners' Association, Dr. C. P. Knight; New Zealand Shipowners' Federation, Mr. T. Mose; New Zealand Builders' Federation, Messrs. J. H. Maynard and J. Lindsay; Now Zealand Licensed Victuallers' Association, Mr. J. Bevetidge ; Gas Companies' Association of N|w Zealand, Mr. W. Ferguson ; Now Zealand Plumbers' Association, 1 Messrs. G. Remington and H. Hawin ; New ' Zealand Master Printers' Assocla^ tion, Mr. H. Coull; New Zealand Boot Manufacturers' Association, Mr. G. A. Coles; Now Zealand Warehousemen 'a Association, Mr. W. J. Hueston; New, Zealand Shipowners' Federation,' Mr. W. E. Fuller; and tho freezing companies by Mr. W. G. Foster. Messrs. W. H. Bennett and W. A. Flavell (trustees), Mr. R. A. Scott (treasurer), Mr. W. Pryor (general secretary), Mr. N., M'Kobie (assistant secretary), and Miv R. A. Armstrong (organiser)' were also in attendance. In welcoming the delegates the president expressed the hop© that the conference would result in benefiting mem* bers of the Federation and the Do« minion as a whole. In moving adoption of the annual ro« port and balatice^Bheet, which waa carried, the president congratulated the Federation on the results secured in connection with the organising and defence fund campaign. He appealed for further assistance and hoped that there would be no 'going back. With regard to Parliamentary industrial legislation, the president said that the time had' more than come for a cessation of tho burdena thai, were being placed on employers of labour. A sub-committee consisting of Messrs. W. J. Jaggs, W. H. Bennett, H. D. Acland, G. Simpson, and W. Scott was set up to consider the question of the nomination of employers' representative* on tho Arbitration Court and report U the meeting as early as possible. (Proceeding. )