INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 73, 20 December 1918, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION

A ■ MEETING OF COMMITTEE. The general committee of the Wellington Provincial Industrial Association met yesterday afternoon. Mr. H. Mainland presided over a small attendance. Tho chairman referred regretfully, to the ravages, of the recent epidemic, but suit! that it was a splendid thing to see bow people had risen to the occasion in the assistance of their fellows. There had never before been a period in which it had been more necessary for employer and employee to work together, and be as man to man. If ever another such scourge smote the country the same snirit that had shone out recenfty would still be there to help tide the country over. He. was proud to know that members of the association had done, their best to aid the unfortunate, and had allowed their businesses to go in the meantime. The meeting decided that February 18, 1010, would be a suitable date for the annual conference of the associations. The chairman said that a most urgent question for discussion at tho conference should be the establishment of a board of industries in the Dominion,, with representation on it of lending industrial men. It was decided that a cablegram stressing the necessity for some slops being taken to project the industries of the country he sent to Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward, as representatives/of the Dominion lit the Peace Conference.