Buildins Officials' Conlerence tVill Hold District Meetings

The Pacific Coast Building Officials' Conference announces that three two-day district meetings, to be held at Long Beach, Oakland and Tacoma, Wash., will take the place of the annual meeting which was previously announced for Vancouver, B. C., from August 22 to 27 inclusive. The Vancouver meeting will be deferred until next year. The general program will be identical for the three district meetings.

The announcement follows:

. District Meetings to Take Ptrace of Convention

"Due to the fact that present business conditions would prevent the majority of Conference members from attending the 11th Annual Meeting of the Pa,cific Coast Building Officials' Conference, previously announced for Vancouver this year, the Executive Committee has voted not to hold an annual meeting this year but to defer the Vancouver convention until next year.

"In place of the annual meeting, three two-day district meetings are being arranged, so that the.indispensable and more important activities of the Conference may be carried on. These activities may be summed up as follows: Code maintenance work, educational papers ancl discussions, and code enforcement discussions.

"The dates and locations for these district meetings are the following:

"Southern District-Long Beach, Calif., August 15 and 16-in new Municipal Auditorium-presided over by District Chairman C. D. Wailes, Jr., of Long Beach, president of the Conference.

"Central District-Oakland. Calif., August 18 and 19with District Chairman W. A. Curtis, of Stockton, Calif., vice'president of the Conference, presiding. (Meeting place to be announced later.)

' "Northern District-Tacoma, Wash., August 22 and 23presided over by District Chairman Arthur J. Bird, of Vancouver, B. C., vi'ce-president of the Conference. (Meeting place to be announced later.)

"A card reminder, giving the necessary particulars concerning each meeting, will be sent from Conference headquarters just before the meeting.

"Conference Secretary David H. Merrill is planning to meet with all three groups and assist in co-ordinating the actions taken at the several business sessions.

"The general program will be identical for each meeting. Reports of the standing and special ,committees announced elsewhere in this section will be read and suitable action, taken. The code ,changes voted as tentative at the 1931 convention, and all changes proposed since that time, will be acted upon by the Conference in general business sesl sion. Shortness of time will prevent the ,qsua,l god-e,-c.gg.;-; mittee work and.extended deliberations and will confine the consideration of code changes to several open business sessions. Changes of a controversial nature either will be thrown out entirely or held over until next year.

"The 'code dis'cussion breakfast feature, considered by most Conferen,ce members to be "the meat" of the annual gathering, will be held as usual on the morning of the second day. It will be conducted with the customary question-box and discussion on code enforcement and interpretation.

"Two papers, the same for each meeting, are scheduled. "Foundations and soil-beating values" will be discussed by O. C. Struthers, district manager, Raymond Conciete Pile Co., Los Angeles, who is president of the California state branch, Associated General Contractors of America. Mr. Struthers has had considerable experience in.soil research and explorations for foundation purposes. The second subject, "Proportioning of ,concrete mixtures from a practical standpoint," will be delivered by Samuel Hobbs, engineer, Portland Cement Association, Los Angeles.

"A Conference dinner, corresponding in idea to the annual banuet, will be held on the evening of the first day, with both delegates and their wives in attendance. Other than this event. entertainment features have been eliminated almost entirely, and no tree planting ceremonies will take place, because the emphasis at these brief district meetings will be upon the essential business of the Conference.

"The plan of substituting three short and conveniently located distri,ct meetings for the longer annual meeting, which is most convenient for the members in the district in whi,ch it is held, is in line with the economy program under which all ,cities and organizations are operating at the present time. Traveling expenses to the district meetings will ' be very nominal for all, and those planning to attend all three meetings may do so with a minimum expenditure of time and money because of the convenient arrangement of dates and locations.

"There is no conflict between the dates selected and either the Olympic Games or the conventions of the electrical inspectors' association. The Olympic Games take place in l,os Angeles ancl vi,cifrty the first two weeks in August; the Northwestern Section of the ele'ctrical inspectors convenes in Wenatchee, Wash., September 6, 7 and 8; and the Southwestern Section meets in Santa Barbara September 12, 13 and 14.

"The nominal expenditure of time and money'makes.pos-. sible a good sized attendance at each of the three district meetings as well as a 'larger combined I attendance than usual. This is in line with the-desire of Conference headQu arters to reach..and as sist. lyilb. lhgg g*yf fJ#J,F9.Ug ntgr lems as many building inspectors and material men as is possible-

"Exe,cutive committee members have expressed deep regret that it is impractical to hold the regular annual meeting this year; first, because they will miss the faces of those rvho cannot attend all three district meetings, and second, because the highly anticipated pleasures of the Vancouver trip will not be theirs until next 1's21.

"This prompts the thought that the postponelnent no doubt will only add to the enjovment of Vancouver in 1933."

British Columbia Lumber Cargo Exports

Total rvaterbourne lumlter exports from Vancouver Island, New Westminster and Vancouver during the first 5 month.s of. 1932 totaled 247,870,0rc board feet compared u'ith 233,598,000 feet the same period of 1931, an increase of 6 per cent, state reports from Consuls Nelson P. Meeks at Vancouver and Robert M. Newcomb at Victoria n.rade public by the Lumber Division of the Departn.rent of Cornlnerce.

Total waterborne exports to the principal n.rarkets during the first 5 months as compared with the same period of 1931, were as follows, 1932 compared with 1931 respectively, in board feet:-to the United States 45,752,06 compared with 88,228,000, a decline of 48 per cent; to the United Kingdom and Continent 43,969,000 ,compared rvith 27,56t,0@, an increase of nearly 6O per cent; to the Orient (Japan and China)' 107,813,000 compared with 94,960,00O, an increase of 13 per cent; to Australia and New Zealand 44,871,000 comparecl with 13,596,000, an increase of 230 per cent,

Waterborne lumber shipments from the B. C. lo'rl.er mainland to Canadian Atlantic ports,during the first four months of 1932 amounted to 9,I92,W board feet as comparecl rvith 14,603,000 in the same period of 1931.

Operating British Columbia limber mills are reporte<l to have decreased the number of working hours during May to 46.6 per cent of normal compared with 50.15 per cent in April. Shingle mill operations on the other hand increased 6.6 per 'cent over April to 4O7 per cent of normal in May. Logs scaled in B. C. during May totaled 184,293,000 board feet as compared with 165,489,000 feet in April. The May timber scale shows a rising trend in 1og production this year, being the largest this year.

On May 31, unsold log stocks in the hands of associated Ioggers (representing 7O per cent of unsold logs in B. C.) of fir, cedar and hemlock were 150,000,000 board feet ,compared with 80,500,000 feet on April 30, 1932 and 137,000,000 feet on May 3, 1931.

Carloadings of lumber in Western Canada showed a slight seasonal improvement during May,1932, and totaled 1,759 cars as coinpared rvith 1,696 in April, 1932, and rvith 2,668 in May, 1931.

AISTHORPE.SHEARIN

Fred D. Aisthorpe, of the Aisthorpe Lumber Co., Chico, rvas married to Miss Mary Shearin at Redding, July 3.

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