NURSERYMEN MEET

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 58, 10 March 1937, Page 12

NURSERYMEN MEET

THE TRADE AND LABOUR

. This year's annual meeting of the New Zealand Horticultural Trades' Association was to have been held in Christchurch in January, in conjunction with the National Horticultural Week, but the infantile paralysis scare caused an abandonment of this idea, and the meeting—a purely business one—was held today instead in Wellington in the Dominion Farmers' Institute.' ■Mr. A. W. Just (Palmerston North) presided over an attendance of about twenty. ' Mr.'Just said that the labour question had been the main difficulty with ■which the trade had had to contend during the year, and it had, in fact, caused great concern to the trade. Some silly demands had been made by employees, or rather by their advisers, and, although some agreement had been arrived at, much remained to be fixed up satisfactorily. Trade in general had improved and they could, he thought, look forward to a good season. Unity was strength, and it behoved them to all work together.

Mr. H. Bennett (Dunedin), after having been presented with a past-presid-ent's badge, suggested that if every nurseryman of standing joined the association, it would be a very fine organisation, and he was optimistic enough to think that that might happen. The conference (hen proceeded to consider and ■ discuss various reports and remits affecting the conduct of

the trade