BUSINESSMEN MEET

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12611, 23 November 1926, Page 10

BUSINESSMEN MEET

CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE CONFERENCE ENTERTAINING DELEGATES. One of the most important meetings of representative businessmen held for a. long time is to take place at Wellington this week, when the annual, conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce will meet. Between forty and fifty delegates, representative of some 25 or 30 Chambers of Commerce, will be present, and during their stay matters vital to the commercial interests of the Dominion will bo discussed. The conference will commehre. aI; 10 o’clock to-morrow morning in the City Council Chamber, and will ho opened l>v the Minister for Industries and Commerce (Hon. .Mr McLeod). The «(inference will then get down in business. and the president's address will be followed by the annual report and a brief review’of the work done during the year by the executive. Elaborate arrangements have been made for the entertainment of the delegates. hi addition to the raauv friends with whom members will spend time, theatre parties will be arranged and sight-seeing trips around the district undertaken. On Wednesday evening there will be a theatre party, and after sitting all day Thursday, the delegates will be motored around tho hays and other beauty spots on Friday morning—this hv-the courtesy of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce mid members of the Automobile Union. ( Pctone industrial area and Williams Park at Day’s Bay will be visited, luncheon being arranged for at Dm Bay. In the afternoon, bv courtesy of the Wellington Harbour Board, the pnvtv will embark on the hoard’s tug and view the various spots of interest in the harbour and its precincts. Mr A. If. MfickreH (Invercargill) is president of the conference.