AUCKLAND TRADE PROTECTION SOCIETY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12001, 25 June 1902, Page 7

AUCKLAND TRADE PROTECTION SOCIETY.

_ ; , The adjourned general meeting of the g ■ Auckland Trade Protection Society was ' | held in the Mercantile Chambers yesterday • afternoon. Mr. J. W. Hall, one of the vicepresidents of the society, presided in the ; absence of Mr. Mackie, president, who wrote stating that as he had to leave for WellingMf ton in a few days it was impossible for him

r f to be present, * The Chairman said that the membership |l of the society was increasing daily, and there -/•? was every prospect of the roll becoming a X verv large one in the near future. . As showing the interest taken in the society, , he mentioned that- the secretary (Mr. JStevenson) had received an application from Wellington for information regarding the ' " society, with a view to the formation of a similar body in that city. : The following were elected as the seven additional memuers of the committee, ' * bringing the number up to 12 : Messrs. ' John Wiseyian (J. Wiseman and Son), M. ' McCallum (Wingate and Co.). J- Choyce • (Milne and Choyce, Limited), Hodgson (iSor- . 1 thern x>oot Company), A. J. Entrican, J. [f 1 ° Henton (Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co., -A , Limited), E. Yates (Arthur Yates and bon). The five members of the committee prev * 4 ' viously elected were Messrs. J. M. Laxon , ) (Laxon, Neil, and Co.), Jas. Hume (Bycroft, l il".Limited), J. Miller (New Zealand Express ~ • Co., Limited), M. J/assmore (Donaghy s ' Rope and Twine Co., Limited), John Schiscfcka (merchant). The president is Mr. J. fpH C. Macky (Macky, Logan, Steen, and Co.), ■ and the vice-presidents Messrs. J. W. Hall • (T. H. Hall and Co.) and A. B. Pvoberton Kg; (Heather, Roberton, and Co.) It was resolved that seven form a quorum of the committee.. At a special meeting of the society, held |' J7. prior to the general meeting, the following <* resolution was carried, on the motion of Mr. I®-- A. B. Roberton, seconded by Mr. M. Mc- | 1 - Galium:"That the Auckland Trade Protection Society become incorporated under i. ) the Unclassified Societies Registration Act, 1895, by the style and title of the Auckland | Trade Protection Society." ■ : .