Continuity At Top

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29767, 9 March 1962, Page 8

Continuity At Top

Mr E. F. Wilde, Christchurch president of the New Zealand School Committees’ Federation, believes this will be the most important conference yet held—and not just because he will be in the chair.

Mr Wilde is one of the chief supporters of a motion to come before the conference tor the setting up of a semipermanent management committee ‘‘on the lines of the New Zealand Cricket Council.”

“The greatest weakness of our strong organisation is that we have no continuity at top level,” he said this week. ‘‘The national executive changes from year to year and is appointed in the centre for next year’s conference. It takes at least six months to pick up all the threads and, just when the federation executive is becoming effective, it goes out of office. “If we could have a management committee in office for a few years I am sure we would get better results,” said Mr Wilde. ‘‘So if the conference appears to devote a lot of time to this issue, I hope our affiliated. committees and parents will appreciate that we are not neglecting our main business, which is the educational welfare of children- Other issues which have been on our agendas for years could well be settled through continuous negotiation by a management committee.”