CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Evening Star, Issue 16823, 27 August 1918, Page 4

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

The thirty-first annual report of tho Dunedin Chamber of Commerce states that I there has been little change in the memi bership, five new mantes having been ! added, while six have been removed from the register, three by death and tliree by 1 resignation, leaving a total number on the ! roll of 160. Tho three members who have \ been lost to tho chamber by death were ( Messrs William Coull, C. F. Green.slade, and J. A. Burt, all well-known men- in the I business life of the community. Mr William Coull joined tire chamber in 1909, on , the death of his brother (Mr J. P. Coull), who had represented their firm on the I membership list for some years prior to that date. Mr Greonslado had been a member of the chamber for 26 years, hav- , ing joined in 1892. Mir Burt rendered j good service to the chamber as an active I : member of the Manufacturers’ Committee ! for the tliree years ended 50th June last, | During the year the council has held 34 j ordinary and special mootings, and the various committees have been called toI gether tea occasion required to deal with i matters referred to them. The statement I of receipts and payments shows a surplus ; of receipts over expenditure amounting to I £2O 9s sd. The payments include two : Tears’ subscription to the Association of New Zealand Chambers, and a contribution of £7 7b towards the expenses of the (Public Questions Committee. The gold medals were, as usual, donated to the Otago Boys’ High School, and were prei sentod to the winners by the vice-president I (Mr J. B. Waters). The successful comi petitors were: Senior, C. B. Davis: i junior, J. S. Park. Matters which occn- ! pied the attention of the chamber during ! the year' were the annual conference at : Wellington, taxation proposals, tho ap- ; jjointment of a permanent ma-ime cargo i surveyor, suburban train services, GovernI meat wheat purchase, fire protection to wharves and snipping, land agents, bydio--1 electric energy, mail motive, the imposi- ! tion of the duty on tea, trade with bamoa, I measures for prevention of trade mis-cte-scription, the postal regulations^ re automatic stamping machines, “ flat _ rate oi freight to main ports from America, issue of priority shipment certificates lor goods of small ‘ bulk and considerable value, ; terms of Harbor Board leases, proposal to have inquiries into the origin of ah fires, terms of grain contracts, corporation luo insurance, tho cession of tho German colonies, the advisability of appointing <a_ -Minister of Commerce, tho importation or nonessential goods, daylight saving . terms of overseas mercantile contracts, pilfering of cargo, railway annual tickets, abolition, ot primage on freight, and the unreasonable rates for inspection of railway weighbridges.