MANAGER TRAINING

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32381, 21 August 1970, Page 12

MANAGER TRAINING

Fire Officers’ New Course

Support for the first management and administrative course for permanent executive fire officers was given by the Christchurch Metropolitan Fire Board yesterday. The New Zealand Fire Service Council said that the five-day course would be held from November 16 to 20 at Lake Alice, six miles north of Bulls. The course would be limited to 20 officers. The Chief Fire Officer (Mr F. A. Hardy) said that the lack of a management course for executive officers had been a sad deficiency in inservice training in the New Zealand fire brigades. He welcomed the course, but considered that it was too short to give a detailed one. The board resolved that Mr Hardy should forward nominations for the course. > A letter from the Fire Service Council said that commitments at the training school in Wellington had prevented a management course for executive officers being held annually. However, the Internal Affairs Department had been most helpful in making the Lake Alice site available this year.

The Fire Service Council was negotiating for the use

of the site, or an alternative one, for further courses. Mr □. T. Stickings, supporting the course, observed that the training school had been going for 13 years, but the November course would be the first management one.