Textile head visits

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33776, 24 February 1975, Page 16

Textile head visits

Mr J. T. Wenham, general secretary of the Textile Institute, an international professional organisation for textile scientists and technologists. visited Christchurch at the week-end. A fundamental aim of the institute, which has its head-

quarters in Manchester. England. is to provide the textile industry with better educated and informed technologists. Mr Wenham said that one of its two main functions was to examine people in textile technology for the award of its associateship and the other way to act as a disseminator of knowledge through such activities as the publication of textbooks and periodica's and the “Journal of the Textile Institute." Mr N. F. Roberts, director of the Wool Research Organisation at Lincoln, is chairman of the New Zea-; land section of the institute. Mr Wenham visited him at the week-end. This evening Mr Wenham

- attends the annua! general - meeting of the seer n )■, - Wellington. and he hope* ta - visit textile mil.* in the North Island • He will be having talk* > with Government and ini dustry representatives to see ? how the institute can help i with the provision f better s technologists in New Zea(land i The New Zea and section i of the institute, he said, had ) given impetu* to the establishment of a training board [for the textile industry here