ASSOCIATED CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 50, 23 November 1926, Page 13

ASSOCIATED CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE

ANNUAL CONFERENCE.

The Mayor (Mr. C. J. B. Norwood) will receive the delegates to the Associated Chambers of Commerce Conference in the Council Chamber (Town Hall) at 10 a.m. to-morrow. There will be some fifty delegates, representing twenty-five chambers, .present, and the list of remits to be considered is likely to keep the conference employed for two whole days.

On Wednesday night there will be a theatre party at the Grand Opera House. On Thursday night visiting delegates will be entertained privately by members of the local chamber. On Friday the delegates will be taken for a motor drive to the Hutt Valley. They will call in nt some of the industrial works at Petone. after which they will proceed to Day’s Bay where luncheon will be served nt the pavilion. After luncheon the party will be picked up bv the Harbour Board’s steamer, and taken for a trip round the harbour.

KILLED BY FALLING TREE

Dominion Special.

Auckland, November 22

Through being struck by a falling tree, William James. Lewis, of Eden Terrace, was killed shortly before midday on .Saturday while working with his son in a garden in Oliver Street, Remuera. Mr. Lewis was 60 years of age and was a stevedore by trade. The two men had sawn through the tree, but in falling it became entangled in the branches of a neighbouring tree and the son. Stanley Lewis, climbed up to cut it free. He shouted a warning that the tree was coming down, hut his father evidently misjudged which way it would fall, for in its descent a limb struck him on the neck, fracturing his spine and causing death almost instantaneously. Stanley Lewis was ewept from the tree at the same time and was thrown with some force against a fence, the blow rendering him unconscious. When he recovered some moments afterwards he found his father lying dead. At an inquest, a formal verdict of accidental death was returned.