BUILDERS’ CONFERENCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 February 1937, Page 10

BUILDERS’ CONFERENCE

ELECTION OF OFFICERS [PEB PEISS ASSOCIATION.] TIMARU, February 25. The annual conference of the New Zealand Federated Builders’ and Contractors’ Association was continued at Timaru to-day. The executive was instructed to watch carefully any proposals introduced by the Government for the framing of apprentices and ensure that time should be allowed to associations before passing legislation. It was decided that to reduce the cost- of- building, the Government be asked, to remove the-sales tax.

The conference agreed to press for the registration of legitimate builders and to. ask that in every case where tenders were called, all tenderers should, after the contract had been let, receive al complete list of prices submitted. t . ... ■ : ~< • It was decided to hold the next conference in Palmerston North. Mr. ,W. Petrie, of Timaru, was unanimously elected president. Other officers elected were: —Vicepresident, Mr. J. W. Andrews (Lower Hutt); executive, Messrs. W. Parkin, W. Clark, A. Fletcher, and G. Dick (Wellington); ex officio members of execiitive, Messrs. A. Fraser (Wellington), V. Coyle (Auckland), N. Webb (Christchurch), and . D. O’Connell (Dunedin); honorary auditors, Messi’s. A. B. Fraser and P. C. Watt (Wellington); trustees, Messrs. W. Parkin, and W., -.Milt, (Wellington); representative on New Zealand Employers’ Federation, advisory board, Mr, W. Mill (Wellington).,,.' . i". Tributes to the splendid work of thb retiring president were . paid by Messrs. Petrie and Andrews, Mr. Mill being accorded a vote of - thanks.