RECORD TERM AS CHAIRMAN
Mr A. A. Macfariane was re-elected chairman of the Lyttelton Harbour Board yesterday for the fifth successive year. This is a record period for a chairman, Mr Macfariane was unopposed.
There was 'b. ballot for the deputy-chairman, and the sitting deputy, Mr F. I. Sutton, was re-elected, by six votes to four over Mr L. G. Amos. The board fixed the chairman’s honorarium at £6OO a year, the same as for last year.
‘‘lt has not been the custom for the chairman to go on as long as I am,” said Mr Macfariane when thanking members for their renewed confidence. He had allowed his I nomination to go forward with some reluctance, he said. The coming year was going to be one of the most important, if not the most important, in the board's history
he said. “The way things happen this year is going to set the pattern how the harbour is going to work for the next 50 years.” “I don’t believe in changing horses in mid-stream,” said W. B. Laing. “You have done a wonderful job as chairman.
Figures on the voting for depuity-chairman were given after Mr Amos had asked for them.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30312, 12 December 1963, Page 27
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