COMMERCIAL INTERESTS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 August 1930, Page 6

COMMERCIAL INTERESTS.

MEETING OF LEVIN CHAMBER. The monthly meeting of the Levin Chamber of Commerce was held on Monday evening, iii the Whakatane Club-room, there being present: Messrs E. S. Crisp (president), N. M. Thomson, P. W. Goldsmith, S. R. Stedman, J. A. Smith, D. P. Todd, and F. P. Walklcy (secretary) Apologies for absence were received from Messrs W. Smaill, G. D. Hamilton, C. S, Keedwell and K. Aitkcn. An invitation was received to view the Wellington Harbour Board's exhibition, and the Chairman stated that it had been visited- by Cr. Parker. The Napier Chamber forwarded a copy of its 48th annual report. * With reference to the establishment of agricultural clubs in connection with the schools of the Levin district, the Chairman reported that he had attended the meeting representing various interests, at which the movement was launched. He described briefly tbo steps that had been taken, and in referring to the utility of the scheme generally in the Dominion he mentioned that in some districts as many as 900 entries had been made in the competitions. Copies were received from Mr J. Linklater, M.P., of the annual reports of the Immigration Department and the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts. STATE AND BUSINESS. The Associated, Chambers of Commerce forwarded a supply of pamphlets containing an address delivered by Mr C. M. Bowden to the Masterton Chamber, in which he gave a comprehensive survey of the establishment and activities of trio 1928 Committee and of the development of its campagu (since'taken over by the Associated Chambers of Commerce) against undue Government interference in private business. The Chairman stated that the subject was one which would probably come forward for ‘discussion at the annual meeting of the Associated Chambers, in October. ANNUAL CONFERENCE. The secretary of the Associated Chambers wrote stating that, as the annual conference would be held at Mt. Cook on October 22nd, 23rd and 24th, he would be pleased to receive copies of any remits which this Chamber mighr, wish to have discussed, in order that ‘they might be submitted to the executive meeting to be held early next month. * The Chairman invited members to bring forward any suggestions that thev might have in mind. MAIL CONTRACTS. The Chief Postmaster forwarded a poster showing the mail services in his district for which tenders were being invited for the three years froin January Ist, 1931, to December 31st 1933. EMPIRE COMMERCE CONGRESS. From the Associated Chambers was received a report by Mr C. P. Agar, their president, on his visit to the Old Country in connection with the twelfth Congress of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire, at which he was one of the eight representatives of New Zealand. The number of delegates recorded were 299, and the women 1 overseas visitors nuniberede 158. Mr Agar was leader of the New Zealand delegation. The next Congress will be held in this Dominion, in 1933. The Chairman remarked that the United Kingdom delegates to the Congress in London had been shy of expressing any very strong views on political matters, except that an Oldham delegate had argued in favour of free trade in the interests of the cotton industry. The Chairman added that the trend would be more and more for the British Empire to try to trade within itself as much as possible. The time was coming when there would be a United States of Europe, and tariffs would be directed against America. COMPANIES ACT PROPOSAL. Dealing with an official report of a meeting of the executive of the Associated Chambers, the Chairman stated that they' were working on a proposed Companies’ Act, by which means they were trying to do something on the lines of the recent English law to stop the hawking of shares of doubt : ful value. Much work was involved, and the Bill would not come before the House during this, session.