ACCOUNTANTS' AND AUDITORS' ASSOCIATION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1063, 28 February 1911, Page 7

ACCOUNTANTS' AND AUDITORS' ASSOCIATION.

; ' ; '■ •— —H ■ . .'' ';■ /■•■• ;■ (By, Tdcernph—Press. Association.); • ■ •'-•■ ' ■• Duncdin, February 27. .' Tlio annual mcetini? of the Now Zealand Accountants' .'and Auditor*' Association was Uolii to-night, Mr,. ll.' Shaw.•(Auckland) presiding. .Xho annual report stated tliat the. membership was 272 : The balance-sheet showed that the'association's accumulated, funds 'amounted' to .C 351. ..•.,■...-. The president, in 'moving the adoption of tlio report, said he was pleased to fiiid Ihatthtfi'o wns a forward inovcmont iii'the'matter , of biisinc.-s education, ami that' as n result., of'the proposals:-sub-mitted to (ho University-Senate, the clircreoiof litichplor of Commoice, which had wen previously purely n.aiilpmic, would in future bo 'made a .thoroughly business one, as far 'as-practical , work'was eoncenipil. Tlio association now enjoyed a passive existence, and it remained- for members to extend all possible support to thn movement for raising the standard of accountancy. ..'...

A motion by tho Southland centre in favour of winding up the'association ai thi> end of the year, or us near thecetu us possible, and that Hip .libraries hi hniulcd to the loral branches of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, met with support, 'but tilt' opinion expressed by delegates was that tho time wn.-t not opportune. It was decided' that tho next, conference bn held in Wellington. Mr. Wilberfi>=s (Wellington) was una'niuiously clcrlcd president. • ' : ■

Mr.'William Walteis, J.P-, a- former High Sheriff of Glamorgan, suddenly expired from'heart failure while nut shooting at Aberdnlais, near Ncath. He lived nt Ffynße, Swansea, and was u larse landotvncc. ' •