INSTITUTE OF DIRECTORS
Head Visits NZ fN.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 17. Sir Richard Powell, director-general of the Institute of Directors, arrived at Wellington this evening after spending 14 days in Australia. On his present tour he has also visited South Africa and Rhodesia. Sir Richard Powell said he had come to visit the 150 members of the institute. He would leave Wellington on Thursday morning.
He said the Institute of Directors was-founded in 1903 and received a Royal Charter in 1906. The institute then became dormant until it was revived in 1950 with 400 members. Today it had 39,000 members.
The visit was for the dissemination of knowledge and for the raising of the standard of etnicg of those entrusted with directorates under the various companies acts.
Tomorrow Sir Richard Powell will be guest speaker at a luncheon to which the Minister of Finance (Mr Lake) and the British High Commissioner (Sir Francis Cumming-Bruce) have been invited. In the afternoon he will meet the Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) and later will confer with the British High Commissioner.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29801, 18 April 1962, Page 24
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