LABOUR PARTY SECRETARY

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25248, 29 July 1947, Page 6

LABOUR PARTY SECRETARY

4 RESIGNATION OF MR A. G. WILLIAMS The resignation o£ the secretary, Mr A. G. Williams, has been received by the North Canterbury Labour Representation Committee. Mr Williams said yesterday that pressure of other work had made the resignation necessary. Nominations for the position have been called, and names already being mentioned are Messrs A. B. Grant, J. L. Laby and George Manning. Mr Williams was .appointed secretary of the committee in 1945, and had a busy period in 1946 when he stood for Labour for the new Fendalton seat and carried out the general organisation work of the committee in preparing for the general election. He is secretary of a number of unions, including the Printers’ Union. With the municipal elections being held in November, the committee faces another busy time and Mr Williams resigned so that his successor would have several months in office before the election. Nominations for the secretaryship will be * considered by the committee on August 14. Mr Grant is secretary ■ of the Canterbury Trades Council of the Federation of Labour and the Canri 1 terbury branch of tb>e A.S.R.S., Me_ > Laby is secretary of a number ot, unions, including the Union, and Mr Manning is secretary*./, organiser of the W.E.A. Although Mr John Roberts, the chairman of the L.R.C. and also of. the Trades Council, is proposing a visit to England early next year, it is certain that he will be granted leave of absence and will not need to resign. Mr Roberts, who will be accompanied by Mrs Roberts, has made tentative arrangements to leave New Zealand at the end of January, and will be away for eight months. He was visiting England after attending the International Labour Office conference when the World War broke out in 1939. - 1 £