ACCOUNTANTS' SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 57, 5 September 1934, Page 4

ACCOUNTANTS' SOCIETY

EXTENDING ORGANISATION

<V delegation from the Wellington branch of the Now Zealand Society o£ Accountants visited Mastertori recently to confer ■with members of the .Wairarapa district. The society's president (Mr. 11. Valentine) gave an address, in which he traced the development of the accountancy profession in Great Britain and in New /eahuul, and its increasing importance in relation to the industrial, commercial, and financial problems of modern hie. 1 feel'confident," said Mr. Valentine, that the profession in all its branches is today in a very strong position and will greatly increase and extend its influence and prestige in the course of the upward struggle to a .sounder and healthier economic state on which, during the past few years, wo have'entered. But we must maintain our standards, both ethical and technical, and we must be prepared, individually and collectively, to render a certain amount of public service without direct reward. The following interim committee was set up to consider the question of the formation of a Wairararm subdivision of the Wellington district, which would function under a local committee: —Messrs. G. W. Selliir (convener), A. B. Low, K. J. Caverhill, A. 0. Jones, and E. K. Eastwood. A similar committee was set up in Nelson recently at a meeting which was addressed by Mr. Valentine. A subdivision of the "Wellington North district has been already formed at Wanganui.

Shark skins are rapidly returning to commercial favour. A Northampton firm of leather manufacturers recently placed an order for 20,000 skins a month from United States exporters.