BAKERS IN CONFERENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 59, 10 March 1926, Page 11

BAKERS IN CONFERENCE

- (By Telegraph.—Prrii Association.) DUNEDIN, 9th March,

, The twenty-sixth annual conference'/ of \%o New Zealand Master Bakers.and. Pastrycooks' Association opened tonight. There was a large attendance of delegates from >all parts of the Dominion. The business was purely formal, and tin conference adjourned to attend a reception by the Exhibition directors. To-morrow morning a comn;onci nent will bo made oh the business, and the annual* report and balancesheet will b-> discussed in* the afternoon. The visitors will be taken for a harbour trip by the Dunedin Association. Tub conference will sit all' day on Thursday, and on Friday the delegates will be the guests of Distributors Ltd. on a visit to Waijori.

DJJNEDIN, This Day. The Master Bakers and Fh^ ■ .-•-vii-- ' Conference was continued to-day. A !$• solution that the scale weight o- Luv.v.;. bread bo the game as for white or wholemeal was defeated by an amendn.ent reforring the m.it.ter to a special committee. . .

Mr. J.-T. Morton, retiring president, delivered'an address in which he an T nounced his resignation after being a memberfor twenty-five years. A motion placing his valuable services on record wag passed. ' ■ ■

The following officers were elected: —President, Mr. G. K. Mathiesori (Auckland); vice-presidents, Messrs. A. J. Gold (Balelutha) and A. F. Tonics (Wellington), Mr. Bo.pn (Christclmrch,) to act during:: Mr. Gold's absonco in England; executive committee, Messrs. Burton, Cowan, Montgomery, Connor, M'Gregor, Buchanan,'and Kent. A re» mit regarding the definition of ftney bread was referred to a committee.