JEWELLERS CONFER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18170, 15 February 1921, Page 4

JEWELLERS CONFER

GATHERING IN DUNEDIN. Twenty-five delegates, representing centres from Auckland and Thamep to Invercargill, attended the opening session of the fourth! annual conference of the New Zealand Association of Retail Watchmakers and Jewellers in Dunedin yesterday. Mr W. Ooltman (Auckland), tie retiring president, delivered the opening address, and Mr J. Armstrong (Dunedin), the new president, then took the chair. Office-hearers were elected as follows:—■ President-elect, Mr J. B. Gerrand (Palmerston North); hon. treasurer, Mr M.j M. Heinemann (Wellington); Executive Council (located in Wellington)—Messrs W. Crawford Young, P. N. .Denton, H. S. Hislop, H W. Lloyd, D, Gillies, and V. White. 'For the most part the agenda paper deals with matters of interest only to the trade. One proposal is that -each jeweller should . have a distinctive trade-mark .with which to mark every product of his workshop: and the possibility _of instituting some technical school classes in the craft may also be considered. It is expected that tie conference, ' J which sat both in the forenoon and in the ( evening yesterday, will occupy three days. _ Attracted by the splendid weather conditions yes'tbrday afternoon, the delegatee de- . , cided to suspend business and to devote' their attention to bowling and golf. A match North Island v. South; Island was played on the Roslyn Bowling Green, two rinks being engaged. The northerners took the honours by 4-0 to 27. Those whose fancy inclined to golf spent the\afternoon at St. Clair. ' ,