INSTITUTE FOR BLIND

Evening Star, Issue 19522, 1 April 1927, Page 7

INSTITUTE FOR BLIND

IHTERHAL DISSENSiOH TRUSTEES BLAME EX-SECRETARY HE CALLS DIRECTOR “ TOO LORDLY.” [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, April 1. Mr Norton Aldis, ex-secretary to the Jubilee institute for the Blind, in an address last night, attacked the method of appointing the trustees as not being representative of public opinion. He said that Mr Clutna Mackenzie, director of the institute, had no special training for the position, was too lordly, and too superior, and that he had the institute in a chronic state of discontent and apprehension. Aldis denied that ho had been dismissed from the secretaryship ; he had resigned. The trustees, in reply, state that Mr Mackenzie helped greatly in carrying out the improvements recommended by the Commission. Remarkable results were achieved, but Aldis’s attitude became so extraordinary that a letter signed by all members of the board was sent to him on September 4 expressing in most stringent terms dissatisfaction with his conduct. It was, say the three trustees who signed the on the face of it an invitation to resign. There was no change in Aldis’s attitude, an later the trustees accepted his resignation, which he tendered His departure had been a relief to the internal running of the institute.