MR. PRIME’S CAREER

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 910, 1 March 1930, Page 10

MR. PRIME’S CAREER

ARBITRATION EMPLOYERS’ REPRESENTATIVE INDUSTRIAL KNOWLEDGE Special to THE SUI V CHRISTCHURCH, Today. Long experience in commercial and agricultural interests is behind Mr. YV. Cecil Prime, secretary to the Canterbury Employers’ Association, who will be the new employers’ representative in the Ai'bitration Court in place of Mr. L. J. Schmitt, who is to become New Zeaeland’s commercial representative in Australia. In recent years, Mr. Prime has been closely connected with the work of the Arbitration Court and the Conciliation Council. Since he became secretary to the Canterbury Employers’ Association six years ago, he has represented employers in Conciliation Council proceedings and, as secretary to the Master Plumbers’ Federation and tlie Master Painters’ Federation, he has conducted t actions of New Zealand-wide effect. Mr. Prime was born in Napier in 1883. Ilis early commercial life was with mercantile firms and then he was connected with the National Insuranco Company at Napier. Ho joined the staff of the State Fire Insuranco Office. Wellington, in 1906, and next year came to the Auckland office, where he remained three years. Private business and secretarial work with the Napier Chamber of Commerce followed. In 1918, as secretary to tlie Hawke’s Bay Sheepowners’ Union, Mr. Prime began his study of industrial questions. v