Canadian grocer April-June 1918 . ming year,after the election of your next present executive hefore laying downtheir office woul dtake the liberty of sug-gesting that their successors might begreatly helped by some further division ofduties and responsibilities. Your association is growing, not onlyin numbers but in influence. We are be-ine called into conference in connectionwith increasingly numerous phases of p-lic plans and these avenues of effort willno doubt multiply. War problems and re-construction rjlans will also add their quotato the obligations of this organization


Canadian grocer April-June 1918 . ming year,after the election of your next present executive hefore laying downtheir office woul dtake the liberty of sug-gesting that their successors might begreatly helped by some further division ofduties and responsibilities. Your association is growing, not onlyin numbers but in influence. We are be-ine called into conference in connectionwith increasingly numerous phases of p-lic plans and these avenues of effort willno doubt multiply. War problems and re-construction rjlans will also add their quotato the obligations of this organization andthe load of the executive wil lincrease. Even in th nast year, the individualson your board have given to associationmatters time to the extent of at least threeweeks in the aggregate and some of ushave spent over six weeks actual timeon your business. Ev°ry one of us areglad to have been able to do what wecould for the association and you are un-der no obligation to us if we have servedthe common good. If in the future there. h. d. Mcpherson Regina, Sask. be a corresponding increase of activity,the point must soon be reached wheremany of you, competent to do your shareon the executive, will be forced to declinebecause you simply cannot give the timewhich the work will demand. Such a stateof affairs would be unfortunate and oughtto be avoided if possible. May we askyou to consider this problem to the end thatsome plan may be evolved in which manyhands may make light work? Mr. Poison, in elaborating on the abovereport, pointed out that the surplus fromthe general funds was only $ Thefact is, he added, that it cost us $ of each membership fee of $12 toonerate the business. The larger sur-plus shown in the statement was due toobtainine. revenue from other sources. Hesu2,-eested that later on a discussionwould take ^lace in regard to a slight in-crease in the annual fee. THE ACORNS PRODUCE THE OAKS While in Reeina last w»k CAN-ADIAN GROCER representative cameacro


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