MASTER PAINTERS.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15346, 9 April 1920, Page 5

MASTER PAINTERS.

TRADE HARD PRESSED TO MEET

DEMANDS.

[.Per United Press Association.]

Auckland, April 6,

The fourth annual conference of the New Zealand Federation of Master Painters, Decorators, and Signwriters was opened this morning. Fifteen delegates from various parts of New Zea-> land were present. In his report upon the year's operations the president said that^ the trade had passed through an anxious tuno owing to difficulties in securing both labour and materials. The number ot journeymen painters hacT Been much reduced by the effects of the war, and _at the same time employers were faced with much renovating work which had accumulated during the war period. They were thus hard pressed to meet the requirements of their clients. The president also referred to the unsuccessful attempt lately made to bring tl-e building trades under one big award. He expressed his satisfartion with ->he result to which he considered ihe Master Painters' Federation contributed by laying valuable information, hex ore "the Arbitration Court. During the year attempts had been made to get Ministers of the Crown to consider certain matters affecting the (notably the interior inspection of d^ell^s miH £he registration of nainte''s-), but without success. Renewed efforts would be me 1 * this year.