WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROUP.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17098, 22 February 1916, Page 8

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROUP.

.MEETING OF EXECUTIVE. K well attended meeting of tho executive of the wholesale and retail section was held in Mr Nordon s office last evening, Mr S..A. Orchard presid- '" The hardware section wrote .with regard to overlapping in the various subsection lists, and suggesting action by the executive. It wa.s decided to ask section secretaries to meet and' compare their IS The motor and cycle travellers' section reported that sub-committees had been appointed, and many substantial promises of support wore received. The sub-committees- were as toUows:--Mo-tor-car travellers, Messrs H. J. Ranger. D. Crozier, A\ . Scott, \\. \auIhan and' J. S. Pearson; motor-eye e travellers. Messrs J. H. Suckling.-H. J. Baron, U. B. Brown and I. Jones; evele travellers, Messrs C. S. Orr, 11. Jones and T. Adnams. Ihe Coal Section l'und Committee reported having decided to close the fund on. March 21, as originally arranged. , ~ • . 'Messrs W. Strange and Co. s employee's forwarded £IOO, their first in. staimeht to the retail sections fund. " The grocers' section reported good nro'-'ros" and that the district had been subdivided for an energetic canvass.