COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS HELP THE COMMUNITY.
(P.A.) Auckland, March 7. “Over all the years I have not known an occasion when the commercial travellers moved to their own advantage, but they have always moved to the advantage of the community,” said the Mayor, Mr. J. A. C. Allum, when he opened the annual conference of the United Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen’s Association in Auckland. Mr. Allum said the first New Zealand Association w as formed in Otago in 1884, and he became a member of that branch in 1911. The following officers were elected: Patron, the Governor-General (Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C.); president, Mr. C. O. Mathias (Otago); honorary treasurer, Mr. H. H. Wauchop; auditor, Mr. Bicknell, Board of Management of Accident and Sickness Insurance Department, third representative, Mr. S. A. Orchard; associate member, Mr. A E. Romcvil; member of the board of trustees of the Centra! Mortuary Relief Fund, Mr G. E. King. Twenty-six delegates from font associations attended a one-day conference. A concerted move to raise at least £lOOO throughout New Zealand to send more food parcels to Britain was unanimously decided upon.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 8 March 1947, Page 4
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