Preaching To Converted?
“I sometimes think that at these conferences you tend to preach to the converted,” said the Mayor of Christchurch (Mr A. R. Guthrey) at the annual conference of the Royal Society for the Promottion of Health yesterday.
He said he wondered! whether the papers to be given on such topics as promiscuity and drug addiction would result in the promulgation of those opinions outside their own group. He also invited the society to consider whether it was necessary to have an annual conference at all. and suggested that a conference every: two years would be more ef-i fective.
“I sometimes think,” said Mr Guthrey, “that there are too many conferences that last too long.” He added that
he was new to his job, and that perhaps he should not have said that.
But Mr S. P. Pushman, the society’s president agreed that , the society was in fact ' preaching to the converted, ■and assured him that it now I proposed to reach out to those “who were not aware or who have not had a listening ear.”
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31923, 26 February 1969, Page 16
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