INTERESTS UNITED
PROVINCIAL COMMERCE CHAMBERS CONFER COUNTRY MEETS TOWN For tlie purpose of engendering further cordiality between town and country, a conference for chambers of commerce throughout the province was held in Auckland yesterday. Mr. H. T. Merritt, chairman of the Auckland chamber, presided over a large assembly of delegates. In welcoming delegates the chairman said that town and country were interdependent and it was with the idea of accelerating good feeling that the conference, the first of its kind in the Dominion, was called. Visiting delegates were entertained at a theatre party last evening, and this morning they were taken on sightseeing tours. The first remit of the conference was submitted by Mr. C. G. Downes (Te Awamutu). The remit stated that as power boards were commercial concerns the franchise should be restricted to ratepayers, who were virtually in the position of shareholders, thus bringing the voting power of borough residents in the same category as those from counties. The remit was not approved by the onference, which resolved that the franchise for power board elections be extended, making it as wide as the Parliamentary franchise.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 712, 11 July 1929, Page 18
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187INTERESTS UNITED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 712, 11 July 1929, Page 18
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