TOBACCONISTS' ASSOCIATION

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 50, 28 February 1934, Page 3

TOBACCONISTS' ASSOCIATION

At a meeting of the Wellington District Retail Tobacconists' and Hairdressers' Association, held last evening, Mr. R. W. Armit was elected president for the tenth time. Messrs. E. W. Humphrey and 6. H. Bradley were re-elected vice-presidents, and Mr. L. Paget was appointed secretary. Members of the association, who will act with the officers as an executive committee, are Messrs. A. Knowsley, H. O. Orsborn, and T. McCreary.

The AVellington Association is one of four centres under the new scheme of federation which unites all tobacconists in the Dominion, and it embraces Wellington, Hawke's Bay, Taranaki, Nelson, and Marlborough. There are several local associations working within the main Wellington Centre. At last evening's meeting the report of the delegates to the recent conference' was read and discussed. It was reported that Messrs. E. W. Humphrey, E. Armit, L. Paget, G. H. Bradley, and T. McCreaiy had been appointed members of the advisory council of the federation..

Mr. Armit explained that the principal •n-ork o£ the federation was the stabilisation of prices throughout the Dominion. He stated that there was no possibility of any immediate increase in price, despite reports to the contrary. Any variation in prices -woxM be in the direction of making them uniform in all sections of the retail trade in Xe-w Zealand, but no announcement would be possible until the whole work had been completed. This would not be for some weeks yet.