INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 122, 17 February 1920, Page 10

INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION

Mr. S. Mainland presided over a meetini.' of the General Committee of tlio Wellinirton Industrial Association hold last ovonimr. There were iu all ten members nresent. , \ The chairman stated that it would 1)9 necessary to keep an eye on the Mangahao livdro-elcctrie works. About sixty men were employed, but very little procress, ho said, was being made. Ho pointed out that the wages were low, beiim only 12s. a day, and they all knew that men could got better wages in the o.it.v. He referred to the fact i that the Government was in favour of the worts boine under the•control tt a i»n-poM - cal bodv. and said that tlio tronblo now was to-Bet'such a body constituted. As one of tlio debates to the Indus, trial Conference at Duncdin, Mr. Mainland stated' that the report of thaUon. fnrenco would be issued m P"»W« form. He spoke in Blowing terms of tlio visit made l>v the delegates to the Wainori Falls to see the hydro-electric works there. There were very many useful papers read, and these would be circuTed as soon as printed.. The 'Megata from everywhere had worked most ,u----mouiouslv with the one desire to benefit tlio industries of New Zealand. lh suit, of the conference was that a com mittee of three members from cacti c ntro wis to. bo elected, and t is committee was chnrßed with tbe. duty ot suraestine tlio work of the. corporation, "d would endeavourtc .bring the new ideas as iar as possible to fmion. ine of the association would also be considered by the commit.

0 ,T Ward, who was another delewto to the Dmiedin Conference, said -th«t he irooosed change of -name arose n ? of his remarks on the organisation institution, of tta ; a.Pad.nn Mnnu. ficturors' Association. ' Mr. Haiti ex nla ned at some length the forking of 1 1 Tnnclian Association, whoso mem. ,n cdMOO. There ttm officers wed heir whole time to the work of tho JWcmtion. They were all experts. The oS of the Dmiedin Conference m inSofotimr the committee was to endearnnr to brimr the Now Zealand Akocw?i"« nito lino, as far as possible, with the Canadian organisation. Mr O. C. Hel.h. the third delegate. „lso 'sixikc in eulogistic terms of tw wrk .lone at the conference in Dunolin. The ddesntes were, thanked for their services. (