MOTOR TRADE

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 229, 27 August 1929, Page 6

MOTOR TRADE

ZEALAND CONFERENCT. TO BE HELI> IN PALMERSTON NORTH. (Special to “Standard. ) FEILDING, Aug. 27. Palmerston North has this year been selected as the venue for the 12th annual conference of .the New Zealand Motor Trade Association, which will be held over a three-day period on mately 150 delegates and their wives from all parts of New Zealand will be attending 1 the conference, and the business to be discussed will be on the lines of motor taxation and matters in connection with the highways and in general connection with the trade. The proceedings will open on Tuesday, September 17, at 10 a.m. when the delegates and their wives will be accorded a civic reception by the Mayor (Mr A. J. Graham) in the Municipal Hall. The delegates will then commence their conference, and in the evening a welcoming social will be tendered to the visitors, while on Thursday a cabaret evening will be held. Among the entertainments arranged for the visitors will be a golf match between the wholesalers and retailers of the association, and complimentary tickets have been issued by the New Zealand Motor Trade Association for sight-seeing rides on the borough busses for the ladies attending the conference, and the New Zealand Association has also provided free tickets for afternoon tea at the rooms of Messrs Collinson and Cunninghame, Ltd., and the C. M. Ross Coy., Ltd. It is also proposed to take the ladies for a motor drive through the districts surrounding Palmerston North, and they will be met at Feilding by members of the local branch of the Manawatu Trade Association and entertained at afternoon tea. The Mayor of Feilding (Mr C. E. Taylor) will welcome the visitors to the town. The conference was secured for Palmerston North at the instigation of the Manawatu branch of the Motor Trade Association, and the following committee have the arrangements in hand:— Messrs L. Pierard (chairman), V. G. Clift (conference secretary), T. Edmunds, F. Cordery, and J. Selwyn. The above committee is also supplemented by a ladies’ committee to assist with the entertainments. It is interesting to recall that the New Zealand Motor Trade Association had its birth in the Manaw r atu, the first meeting of the promoters being held in Feilding on May, 1917, when the association was formed, and the first meeting of the New Zealand Motor Trade Association was held in Palmerston North in June, 1917. Among the foundation members were the late Mr J. Bett (Palmerston Nothr), Messrs J. Perry (Feilding), H. Watt (Palmerston North), E. Wackrill, H. Stewart, W. W. Andrews, W. H. Bain (all, of Feilding), O. Andrews and \V. Turner (of Palmerston North) and others. From an original membership of approximately 17 the association has grown to a body of about 1500 members with an annual income of approximately £7OOO, the affairs of the association being controlled by a council of delegates which meets monthly in Wellington. Mr V. G. Clift is the council member for the Palmerston North and Feilding branches. With the motor trade the association has grown, and to-day the association has a great bearing on matters in connection with the trade, and its considered opinion carries' no little weight in questions of importance to the motor industry in New Zealand.