COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 58, 10 March 1937, Page 6

COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY

PROBLEMS OF TO-DAY BUSINESSMEN ADDRESSED CHAMBER OF COMMERCE LEADERS VISIT CITY The chairman of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand, Mr. G. C. McCaul, of Wellington, and the secretary, Mr. A. O. Heany, were visitors to Wanganui yesterday during the course of a tour of the various Chambers of Commerce throughout the North Island. The visitors were entertained at lunch at Foster’s Hotel by the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce, a number of businessmen also being present. The president, Mr. E. M. Silk, presided and extended a welcome to ’Mr. McCaul and Mr. Heany. An address on the problems facing industry and commerce to-day as a result of the introduction of Socialistic legislation was given by Mr. McCaul, who was accorded a hearty vote of thanks on the motion of the chairman. A tribute to the valuable work performed by Mr. A. O. Heany for the Associated Chambers of Commerce and for the individual Chambers of Commerce was paid by Mr. H. Hague Smith. Mr. McCaul said that the president ot the Associated Chambers of Commerce received all the bouquets for the work carried out whereas it was the secretary on whom the success of the organisation depended. Mr. Heany was undoubtedly the finest secretary the Associated Chambers of Commerce could secure and he had carried out a tremendous amount of valuable work for the organisation. Rifle-Shooting Interest. Keen interest is being displayed in Wanganui in the progress of the National Rifle Association’s annual championship meeting at Trentham, mainly because a Wanganui marksman, Mr. F. J. Soler, shares third place in the King’s Fifty. The final, to be fired this afternoon, is to be broadcast by the National Broadcasting Board from 2YA. To Prevent Election Farces. Apparently somewhere in the South Island a candidate has withdrawn from a local body election at the last moment, so making the election a farce, for it had to be held, under present legislation, though in fact only the required number of candidates remained. There are two remits for the annual Municiple Association conference on this point, the second of which proposes that any candidate who retires from an election after noon on the day fixed for the nominations should forfeit his deposit. To that remit there is this note: —“A candidate who puts a municipality to the exepense of printing and other expenditure in connection with an election should pay therefore, if he withdraws after the nomination day. If he is subject to no such penalty there would be no deterrent to a candidate leaving his withdrawal until the last moment merely for the purposes of embarrassing his opponent and heedless of the work and trouble entailed on the Returning Officer, his assistants, and all concerned.”