CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 October 1930, Page 6

CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.

CONFERENCE AT MT. COOK. TO OPEN ON WEDNESDAY. The annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand will open at The Hermitage, Mt. Cook, on Wednesday. Included in the targe number of remits to be. dealt Avith is one from the Masterton Chamber of Commerce urging that every motor car purchased on the time-pay-ment plan .should be registered. A remit from Napier advocates that free trade in food products be the fiscal policy betAveen New Zealand, Australia and’ Canada. A Wanganui remit on the same question goes further and urges the Government to give sympathetic consideration to a scheme for a policy of free trade within the Empire. That the proposed additional impost of 10/- pear annum for keeping customers’ accounts by the banks is not warranted, is the tenor of a New Plymouth remit. Other remits deal 1 with land .settlement, Avhcat duties, unemployment, railways, highways, taxation, loan polls, and state tiading. The report of the executive to be presented at the Conference says inter alia: “The illness of the late Sir Joseph Ward during the latter period of his office as Prime Minister, proyed a handicap in the direction of placing the views of the Association, as expressed in the remits passed at the last annual conference, before the Government. Failing personal contact Avith the late Prime Minister, a deputation waited upon the then Acting-Prime Minister, Hon. G. W. Forbes, and placed the views of the Association before him, and the remits Avere also brought under the notice of the other Cabinet Ministers concerned. Later, Avhen the Hon. G. W. Forbes Avas elected Prime Minister, and the various portfolios were (rearranged, the remits Avere again brought under the notice of the respective Ministers, and a deputation also Availed upon the new Prime Minister. “Although the executive is disappointed at the lack of success resulting from its efforts to secure much needed reforms, notably in connection with the Board of Trade Act, it feels that the interests of the Association have been safeguarded in other directions and the weight of the collective opinion, as expressed in remits, has made an impression on the authorities. It is pleasing to note that in several instances success has followed the Association’s representations. ’ ’