THE LABOUR CONFERENCE
TRESS ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN, April 6. At the Trades and Labour Conference this morning, Mr Betts (Westland) moved that the Wellington Trades and Labour. Council bo the executive committee for the ensuing year. Mr Breen (Otago) moved an amendment in favour of tho Canterbury Council being tho executive. The amendment wns carried by nine votes to eight. Auckland, Nelson and Westland delegates voted in favour of Wellington, while Wellington, Otago and Canterbury, with three votes each, favoured Canterbury. It was resolved that the next conference be held in Wellington during tho first week of the 1908 session of Parliament, an amendment in favour of Nelson, being lost. The Wellington Council, in conjunction with a delegate from'the Westland Council, was empowered to present Ministers with the decisions of the conference. The executive was instructed to have printed reports of the conference furnished to members of Parliament and to the trades councils in Australia, America, and European countries. It was decided to recommend the various councils to confer with members of Parliament for their respective districts for the purpose of urging on them the necessity of giving effect to the conference's resolutions.
Tho conference made its customary complimentary votes.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6177, 8 April 1907, Page 5
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