POWER CONFERENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 224, 21 September 1934, Page 9

POWER CONFERENCE.

SUGGESTION OF FUTILITY. REPLY TO MR. lIOLDSWORTH. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. The statements made by Mr. W. J. Holdsworth, chairman of the Auckland Electric Power Board, that the conference of the Electric Power Boards and Local Supply Authorities' Association "got nowhere," was "quite valueless," and discussed "piffling remits," were criticised by Mr. S. Blackley. representative of the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board at the conference, at a, meeting of the board to-day. "I do not subscribe to the statements made- by Mr. Holdsworth, which might convey a wrong impression of the work done at the conference," said Mr. Blackley. "When one submits a report to a committee one should not be annoyed because his report is not swallowed wholesale. That is what happened, and it is not quite the thing for a member of the executive committee to refer to the work of the conference as 'valueless' and remits as 'piffling, , and to say that the conference 'got nowhere.' "At every conference there are bound to be one or two 'piffling remits,' and the proper course then is to do as Mr. Holdsworth said—pigeon-hole them."