CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE CONFERENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 15 April 1909, Page 8

CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE CONFERENCE.

CPRESS ASSOCIATION.!

WELLINGTON, April 15

At the Conference of delegates from Chambers of Commerce it was proposed that it is unjustifiable to discriminate in the matter of railway freights between goods imported and those produced in the Dominion. An amendment was adopted referring the subject to the Parliament Committee.

It was also resolved that it is desirable that shippers of grain and produce should be able to obtain Government certificates for accurate railway weights on payment of a fee not more than at present charged for the certificates which the Government now issue, and which are in many cases unreliable; that further representations be made to the Railway Department to ensure that railway empties were received by the persons to whom they were consigned.

It was decided to reaffirm the trade terms in wholesale grocery and hardware adopted between the Chambers of Commerce in 1889, and to recommend Chambers to form sub-sections of the various trades for the purpose of securing unifority of terms in each section.

It was resolved to ask the Government to subsidise the Vancouver route as a mail service, so that New Zealand will have the first inward and last outward port of call.