IMPORTERS TO MEET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1939, Page 6

IMPORTERS TO MEET

PLANS FOR CONFERENCE

ACTION BY ASSOCIATED CHAMBERS. j

DISCUSSION WITH MINISTER ARRANGED.

(P.v Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day.

In response to requests, the executive of the Associated Chambers of Commerce has decided to convene a mass meeting of importers from all parts of New Zealand who are affected by the import regulations. The Importers’ Federation is tiding in conjunction with the Associated Chambers. The conference will be held in Wellington on January 25 and 26.

Tile Hon, W. Nash, Minister of Customs, has signified his willingness to attend and will address the conference at its opening and state the case for the Government. It is hoped that sufficient progress will be made to enable a series of questions to be prepared and the Minister has' agreed, in thal case, to return to the conference on the following day and answer the questions. It is intended that the meeting should be not merely a meeting of delegates, but a massed gathering of all importers who are prepared to spare the time and expense to attend to discuss the problems raised and Chambers are asked to get into touch with local trade organisations in their respective centres, embracing even members outside their own ranks, in order to secure attendance where possible at the conference and also to arrange, where firms consider it desirable, for them to send representatives to die conference, which it is desired should be as representative as possible.