ASSOCIATED CHAMBERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22717, 1 November 1935, Page 8

ASSOCIATED CHAMBERS

RESOLUTIONS OF CONFERENCE ELECTION OF OFFICERS (Pes United Press Association) NAPIER, October 31. The Associated Chambers of Commerce Conference was continued to-day. It was decided that where a system of rating has been adopted by poll no further poll on a similar question be taken for five years, and that 25 per cent, of the ratepayers should be required to petition seeking such poll. Further resolutions were:—" That inquiry be made as to the practicability of settling commercial disputes by voluntary arbitration; that the Government be urged to reconsider the recommendations of the National Expenditure Commission to which effect has not yet been given; that the duty surtax should be abolished on all imported goods from self-governing colonics." The conference decided that it was desirable that the duty on goods imported from certain countries where the living conditions were inferior to Empire conditions should be increased. This afternoon the delegates made a tour of the district. The following officers were elected: — President, Mr Norton Francis (Christchurch) ; vice-president, Mr M. G. C. M'Caul (Wellington); immediate past president, Mr A. 11. Allen (Dunedin); executive; —Messrs H. Anderson (Napier), A. S. Burgess (YVanganui), A. G. Lunn (Auckland), C. B. Tapley (Invercargill), G. D. Virtue (South Canterbury), A. F. Wright (Canterbury), Stronaeh Paterson (Wellington), F. H. Bass (Wellington), J. Halligan (Wellington), I. J. V. James (Wellington), J. C. Morrison (Wellington), C. J. Norwood (Wellington) and C. A. L. Treadwell (Wellington). The 1930 conference of the Associated Chambers is to be held at Timaru. '.