AUCKLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
ANNUAL DINNER
By Telegraph—Press Association.
AUCKLAND, June 24. At the annual dinner of the Chamber of Commerce, a speaker laid stress on the necessity of opening up native land 3, completing the Main Trunk line, and providing better Government buildings in the city. ' Some members urged railway connection with Jtaranaki. and Gisborne, though there was a difference of opinion on this point. Upon the Tariff question a suggestion was made to establish at each centre a Board of Reference, with the Collector of Customs as Chairman, for the interpretation of 'the tariff.
Mr Massey predicted that next census would show that the population of Auckland was little short of one hundred thousand. The Suez mail was very a poor substitute for the' San Francisco service. Something better must be provided in the near future, Jle favoured a fast service, via Vancouver.
Mr Herries warned Auckland merchants to bestir themselves to intercept the current of trade flowing from the East Coast to the South.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8472, 25 June 1907, Page 5
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167AUCKLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8472, 25 June 1907, Page 5
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