fJ ,l Hardwood club convention

C INCE its founding l0 years tJ ago, the Los Angeles Hardwood Lumberman's Club has been building its membership, adding new features to its calendar of events, and growing in size and influence. This year it was decided to begin holding an annual meeting, as well as the monthly gatherings the group stages. tWith an originality it has often shown, the Los Angeles Hardwood Lumberman's Club decided to hold the meeting at sea, on a Los Angeles to Vancouver, British Columbia, cruise liner.

Departing Wednesday afternoon, May 30, the group had an introductory session and a bon voyage cocktail party, immediately before moving out of L.A. (actually San Pedro) harbor, complete with ribbons, streamers, horn blasts and much waving, on their way up the Pacific Coast to the heavily wooded shores of Western Canada.

W0RKll{G sessions onboard the Sun Princess included meetings of the entire group as well as revolving roundtable talks that covered a number of industry subjects. Meetings were held both in the morning and afternoon. The Los Angeles Hardwood Lumberman's Club is one of the laroest of its kind in the U.S.

Next morning, the flrst of a number of business sessions was convened. Fleld in a private card room on an upper deck, complete with floor-to-ceiling windows that provided a dazzling view of the ocean, the meetings nonetheless plunged into their agenda of industry matters.

The initial meeting dealt at length with a variety of domestic and imported supply problems. It was the consensus that the dramatic increase in recent months in the pricing of lauan was Iikely to continue, though opinions divided as to the severity of the probable increases this fall.

After a break for lunch, the club members divided into small groups

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