CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17605, 22 October 1931, Page 10

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

THE MONTHLY MEETING i The council of the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce held Us monthly meeting yesterday, afternoon. 1 There were present: Mr: TV R, Ball, in the chair, Messrs. T. E, Toncycliffe, A. L. Muir, B. W. J.- Edwards, James Glirisp, T. Corson, If. F. Forster, T. G. Lawless, C. G. Rloore, V. E. Sanders, and 11. H. DeCosta. Reporting on the Onchungn-Manukau chamber’s proposal, of settlepn'iit, the chairman said he did ' pot think it I practicable, t The scheme provided for the men receiving 2s a. day as going towards capital fqr the purchaseof land; in two years, the chairman commented, each man would have nearly £4O/ There had been too many eases of men starting with little or no' capital.—Correspondence on the matter was received.. The Hawaii tourist bureau forwarded publicity regarding the national and foreign trade councils’ conference,' planned for May, 1932, with a request that it be made available to members of the chamber.—-Received. In response to an inquiry from the Gisborne, chamber, the acting secretary,

of the Auckland Harbor Board wrote i as under: “I am in receipt of your s letter regarding transhipments to Gis.- < • borne ex overseas vessels, and in reply 1 beg to inform you that no separate 1 record is kept of transhipments to the j.] various ports of New Zealand. Inis jjrder to enable such a return to be made.it would be necessary to peruse < the manifests of all overseas vessels : for the 12 months and extract the nA J formation therefrom. As the board’s 1 financial yenr ends on September 30 1 ] my staff will be fully engaged during • i the next few months in completing the ! annual returns, and 1 regret therefore ; that 1 am unable to supply the infor- i niation. required.”, The secretary of the Wellington Harbor Board also ad- i ■ vised th.\t records of transhipped cargo < were not recorded in his office. —The letters were received. < The chamber received from the ( headquarters of the New Zealand Travel Corporation information as to its 'organisation and objectives, in- 1 eluding a suggestion that hotels, busi- j nesses, motor transport, railways, and shipping companies should contribute j on a settled basis to the upkeep of the association. , It is proposed by the I corporationv to have well; qualified' agents in, suitable localities overseas,'

and to specialise the publicity for respective countries and also for various types of tourists, for the promotion of tourist traffic in New-Zea-land.—The meeting agreed that the present time was inopportune to consider the matter. Notice was received from the .Associated Chambers of Commerce of *a motion to be tabled at the annual con-/ foronce in Wellington, to the effect that the executive shall consist of the president, vice-president, immediate past-president, three members of the North and South Islands respectively, aml-sevcn members resident in the city of Wellington. —Received. The Invercargill Chamber of Commerce pointed out that many overseas steamers used foreign timbers; for dunnage, and asked support to a request. that they should use New Zealand second grade timbers.—lt was decided to support the request.