COST OF ATTENDING CONFERENCES
OBJECTION BY DRAINAGE BOARD MEMBER “I am appalled at the waste o‘f ratepayers’ money in sending people to conferences,” said Mr H. P. Smith, at last evening’s meeting of the Christchurch Drainage Board, when a proposal to send the chief sanitary inspector and his assistant to the annual conference of the Royal Sanitary Institute was discussed. The board decided that only the chief inspector should attend. “We hear nothing about the conferences,” complain Mr Smith, whose objection was supported by Mr R. C. Neville. The chief engineer (Mr E. F. Scott) said valuable information was brought back from the conferences. When the chairman (Mr E. H. S. Hamilton) read the agenda for the conference, Mr Scott commented: “It is not a social show.” Annual conferences were overdone* said Mr Neville.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27224, 16 December 1953, Page 9
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