Permanent Director Urged For Council

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30445, 20 May 1964, Page 7

Permanent Director Urged For Council

The New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation took the view that the appointment of a director of the Industrial Design Council should be a permanent appointment and not merely a resting place for Government officials during their progress on an upwards spiral, said the president of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association (Mr R. G. Pearce). He was speaking at the association’s monthly meeting.

A letter received from the federation’s secretary (Mr A. Dellow) said that the federation’s representatives put forward two points of view at the last council meeting. They were: That the director of the design council should be a permanent appointment whether appointed from within or from outside the public service; and that at the outset a time limit should be agreed within which the council should become a separate organisation with its own staff, though continued financial support by the Government would still be necessary. As a guide to the time limit envisaged in this recommendation, a period of three years was suggested. Not Accepted Mr Dellow said that while the , Parliamentary Under-

Secretary to the Minister of Industry and Commerce (Mr L. R. Adams-Schneider) did not disagree with the requirement that ultimately the design council should be a separate organisation, he did not accept the proposed time limit of three years.

Mr Dellow said that in discussing this aspect later with several who were at the meeting, it appeared that it might not be desirable to set a definite time limit, though the federation would still hold fast to the general principle of a separate organisation as the ultimate objective.

The time within which this could be achieved, he said, would largely depend on manufacturers themselves and the degree of support they give the proposed organisation, including financial support, to make it possible for it to become a separate organisation within the shortest possible time.

Mr J. K. Dobson said at the association’s meeting that he presumed the Government did not have any authorities on design.

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