BAKERS’ CONFERENCE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20539, 14 February 1935, Page 9

BAKERS’ CONFERENCE.

Annual Meeting of Indemnity Association. The Dominion conference of the New Zealand Master Bakers' and Pastrycooks’ Association was continued this morning, the session opening with the annual meeting of the New Zealand Master Bakers' Mutual Indemnity Association, over which the chairman of directors (Mr 11. P. Burton) presided. The directors' report, the statements of the finances of the association, and the directors’ recommendation regarding the payment of a dividend were received and considered in committee. The following officers were re-elected: —Directors, Messrs H. P. Burton (chairman), G. K. Mathieson, Claude Cowan, J. M'Gregor and R. H. Montgomery; auditors, Messrs Chambers, Worth and Chambers (Auckland). Before the next business was taken, the organiser (Mr W. H. Warren) announced that Mr P. Cleverly had arrived as a delegate from Oamaru, so that Gore and Gisborne only were not represented. The meeting then went into committee to consider the question of flour and bread prices, a survey of the position being given by Mr R. K. Ireland, of Oamaru, chairman of directors of Distributors, Ltd. Before the session concluded it was decided that the annual affiliation fee should be £1 Is. This afternoon, delegates and their womenfolk were taken on a motor drive to Lyttelton, via Dyer’s Pass, as the guests of the Dominion Compressed Yeast Company. A launch trip to Diamond Harbour, and afternoon tea as the guests of J. T. Norton, Ltd., followed.