EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 67, 7 August 1914, Page 4

EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION.

m ANNUAL MEETING. At -jhe uunual meeting of the Taranaki Employers' Association last nigh',, Mr. T. /. very presided over a somewhat sparse Attendance of members. The balance-sheet showed an income of £2oO 1/3 9d, surplus of £29 19s lOd, and a balance of assets over iiabilities of £O3 lfii lid. The rt;.ort and balance-sheet wore adopted after a brief discussion, in which M.. C. E. Baker expressed regret ttiat members did not seem to realise the advantage of the system evolved for dealing with credit question. Mr. V. T. Bcllringer suggested thai the system might be carried still further and perhaps made to record the i number of "bad marks" on the books j of the wholesale merchants. At the same trua, he would be sorry to see the scheme administered in any arbitrary

manner, or so as to injure -the honest persons who found themselves in debt. Mr. EI. Ooodacre stated that in a previous investigation on behalf of a number of tradespeople, he had found the amount u l credit given more or less indiscriminately by New Plymouth traders to be simply astounding ELECTION Oi> OFI'ICERS. Officers were elected for the ensuing year as follows:—President. Mr. W. F. Brookiaj; vice-president, Mr. W C Weston; trustee, Mr. 0. E. Baker; secretary and treasurer, Mr. T. L. Buxton;

auditor, Mr. E. P. Webster; committee Messrs J. W. Harden, F. S. Johns, A E. Sykas, P. White, C. E. Baker. J. C. Morey, i\ 0. J., Bellringcr, A. K. Smart, [ r. Aver/, R. J. Deare, F. W. Okey, H. Goodacr-, A. Veale, and P. Lealand, with power to add. GENERAL. It was decided that five be a quorum of the general committee. On the motion of Mr. Austin, it was decided to bring before the conference of employers' associations, to be held m Wellington this year, the necessity for- provision of better means for employers tu enquire into the bona fides of trade unions.