N.Z. MANUFACTURERS
CONFERENCE AT NAPIER
The annual conference of the New Zealand Manufacturers' Federation, which opens at Napier on Tuesday, will be one of the largest gatherings of commercial men ever held in New Zealand outside Wellington. Apart from Hawke's Bay district manufacturers, the conference party will comprise over 150, of whom 110 are official manufacturers' delegates coming from Invercargill. Dunedin, Timaru, Christchurch, Wellington, and Auckland. Mr. C. V. Smith, Dunedin, will, preside. The conference will be opened at 10.15 a.m. on Tuesday, by the Minister of Supply (Mr. Sullivan). The Minister of Rehabilitation (Major Skinner) will be present to give an address on rehabilitation, and to discuss matters relating to rehabilitation with the delegates. Messrs. H. L. Bockett, Controller of Man-power, and R. W. Marshall, Director of New Zealand Supply Mission, Washington, will also deliver addresses.
This year manufacturers will devote part of their discussion to questions of post-war trading policy and activities which are coming to the fore. Tho acute man-power position in industry which is stated to be materially limit* ing the possibility of supplying essential civilian goods t& well as interfering with the production of war sup« plies for the New Zealand and Allied Forces will be fully discussed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 87, 9 October 1943, Page 8
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203N.Z. MANUFACTURERS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 87, 9 October 1943, Page 8
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