3. te General objects of the Corporation

to promote, support and develop the science of management including industrial welfare work, staff management and employment administration ;

to consider all questions connected with the trade, manufactories and industries of Sri Lanka, to endeavour to promote or make representations relating to legislative and other measures affecting them and to collect and circulate statistics and other information relating thereto ;

to appoint surveyors and to provide for surveys of goods and merchandise and for the issue of survey reports, certificates of origin, quality and weight and measurement

to advise and assist members on labour laws and regulations and to appear and to arrange legal assistance to members in labour disputes coming up before labour tribunals, courts of law, the Depart-ment of Labour or before any other Department or forum

to form a board of arbitration to parties willing to abide by its decisions and to undertake the settle-ment of disputes and differences arising out of trade, commerce and industry

to provide facilities for the delivery of lectures, the holding of classes and examinations and the award-ing of scholarships and other rewards in connec-tion with management, as well as to issue certificates of merit and to encourage a greater degree of efficiency in those engaged as executives ;

to found scholarships to assist persons desiring to train themselves for commercial careers and to accept donations and endowments for any such purpose, and to act as trustees, custodians and managers of any funds subscribed or donated for any such purpose and generally to undertake and to execute any trusts and to undertake the office of trustee

to provide facilities to employers in trade, commerce and industries for the recruitment and training of employees ;

to compile, print, publish, lend or distribute pro-ceedings and reports of the Corporation or any papers, communications, statistics, text-books, treatises or subjects connected therewith in

to do market surveys and negotiate through export houses in Sri Lanka and importers in other coun-tries for the export promotion of local industrial and other produce

to maintain public relations with the Government and other organizations for and on behalf of the members of the Corporation and to organize consumer councils and give publicity to the products of members

to subscribe to, become members of, subsidize and co-operate with, any other association, whether incorporated or not, individual, firm or body, whose objects are altogether or in part similar to those of the Corporation and to obtain from and communicate to, any such association, person or body any information, matter, right or thing as may be likely to promote the objects of the

to do all such other things as may be necessary for, or conducive or incidental to, the interests or benefits of the small industries of Sri Lanka or to the attainment of the above objects or any of them or generally to the benefit, protection or advance-ment of the trade, commerce, manufactories and industries of Sri Lanka.

to solicit and receive subscriptions and gifts of all kinds whether absolute or conditional for the purposes of the Corporation

to borrow or raise moneys with or without security for the purposes of the Corporation

to invest the moneys of the Corporation or any moneys entrusted to it in such investments

to acquire by purchase, exchange, gift, testamentary disposition or otherwise, and to sell, mortgage, lease, exchange or otherwise dispose of, any property whatsoever

to construct, alter and maintain any buildings required for the purposes of the Corporation or for housing the staff of the Corporation

to appoint and dismiss or terminate the services of-all such officers and servants of the Corporation as it may deem necessary and to pay them such salaries, pensions, gratuities and allowances as may from time to time be determined by the Corpora-tion

to establish or contribute to any fund or scheme for. the grant of allowances, gratuities, pensions, or other benefits to officers or servants, past or present, of the Corporation or to the relatives or dependants of such persons ;

to provide from time to time for the management of the affairs of the Corporation outside Sri Lanka in such manner as the Corporation deems fit and in particular to appoint any person or pcrsons to be the attorney or agent of the Corporation for such purpose and upon such terms as may be thought fit ;

to enter into any contract with any person, society or body of persons, whether corporate or unincorpo-rate, or any Government department or local autho-rity for promoting the objects of the Corporation ;

to accept and carry out any condition or trust subject to which any property is given to the Corporation for the furtherance of its objects

to do all things necessary or expedient for the proper and effective carrying out of the objects of the