BUILDERS' & CONTRACTORS' FEDERATION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1898, 5 November 1913, Page 4

BUILDERS' & CONTRACTORS' FEDERATION.

ANNUAL MEETING. (By Teletrraph.-Presa teooiaUonJ VJanganul, November 4.. Tho fourteenth annual meeting of tiio New Zealand Federated Builders 1 and Contractors' Industrial Association o£ Employers opened this morning. Mr. J. Lindsay, of Dunedm, presnTed, and associated with bim was Mr. «. HBennett, of Wellington, of tjio executive. There were present 25 delegates, representing Auckland, Cantor burv, Dunedin, Gisboriio, Hawko s Day, Nelson, South Canterbury, Southland, TaSri Wanganui, ! Tlia annual report, which dealt w.tn afforestation and timWr Bupphw. aKtl- - tho Architects Bill, 7T<f' *»" teetion and Contractors Lien Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Aot wafr received. The showed tho iinancos to bo in a ® tt to«ac to °y condition, Jho report and baU nnofvsheot wote • adopted* exccu th'o eulogised for tho, ma.rtfcor m i.hidi tw u .»« td Federation held last week was laid on %?foi!owing remits were diseased B 'Cttntofc-"That' further efforts, be made to havo railway freigWß on fore lg n t! WemnS-HTiat the Government be \SK 01100 C ,nc6 ,? 6XP^ n duty ? all timber* shipped from the ''That to * request nro to P bo fa o n.o f' P »atli V otherwise the ordinary maximum £gs£Hv^^P ccificdlar e cßt IC S S e»-''That "ect<rf the- Plumbers Refii^ratmri Act upon tin standing of master, builders and its bearing upon tho by-laws of local boles be considered by.th* oonferonco, and that tho legal op 1 ™? 11 obtained by tho executivo be circulated to. all alhli'atcd associations." yiawkc 1 s Bay.—"That 'tho attention of the Public Worlcs Department bo drawn to tlio delay which takeß jilace in tho .return of contractors deposits. Canterbury,—"That the architects bo requested not to nsk for more than ono alternative prico for contracts.' •. WoHiujlton.—"That tho conference consider £ho advisability of adopting niodol'rules for all affiliated associations, and that tho executive bo empowered to draw up a set of ttllos to bo presented at the next oonference for consideration." v A now manifesto issued tyv tue ftow Zealand Employers' Federation in connection witii tho new forward movement was discussed at length, and it nna iie ■ that tlio Employers' Federation bo mado to protect the nvterostsotciuployors. It was ultimately decided. "That this conference strongly recommends members of tho various builders associations to become members of tho local. Employers' Association. On tho motion o tho Auckland dele■gates, it was decidedlhat tho oxecutivo be asked to approach tho Government with -(lie objecvt of having the Lien Act amended in tho ducction of reducing tiio amount of lien money ro» tftinod by architects. *