TRADING ASSOCIATIONS
SCHEME FOB AFFILIATION CONSIDERED.
Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 20.
A scheme to bring about the affiliation of various trading associations in Auckland was brought under the notice of the Farmers' Trading Association by the Auckland representative of the New Zealand Public Service Cash Purchase Association, who foreshadowed tlio enrolment of a great body of affiliated associations reaching over the whole Dominion, and eventually linking up with the great co-opera-tive associations' in the Old Country. In the course of a discussion, reference was made to the action being taken by the "Waterside Workers’ Union and Seamen’s Union to arrange for co-operative purchasing. One speaker expressed the opinion that in a short time every trades union in Auckland would be taking similar action.
The meeting confirmed the principle of affiliation, and referred the Public Service Association proposals to. the directors' to report to a special meeting to deal finally therewith.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8738, 21 May 1914, Page 5
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