Pacific Cdast Hardwood Flooring Dealers' Ass'n Holds Annual Meeting

The Pacific Coast Hardrvood Iilooring Dealers' Association held their annual meeting at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on August 12, 1933.

Kenneth Smith of Los Angeles r,vas the main speaker on the program. He told the convention of the action taken up to that date by the Maple and Oak Flooring Associations, each of which had set up separate codes, and expressed his opinion that the logical thing for the California group to do was to prepare a code under the State recovery act. Mr. Sn.rith's informative talk gave convention members a good background for their discussion on the matter of a code.

The following standing code comrnittee rvas appointed : Frank Connolly,'Western llardnood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, chairman; Jerry Sullivan, San Diego; Grover Gearhart, Los Angeles; B. E. Bryan, Oakland ; James Ahearn, Portland, Ore., and K. L. Bates, Seattle.

The meeting was called to order by President Chas. M. Cooper. The minutes of the last annual n.reeting and the treasurer's report were read and adopted.

Brief reports of business conditions in the various districts were made by K. L. Bates, J. J. Matthews Hardrvood Lumber Co., Seattle; James Ahearn, Emerson Hardwood