MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION

Evening Star, Issue 22620, 12 April 1937, Page 8

MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION

EDUCATION OF STAFFS MR LEWIN SUGGESTS TECHNICAL LIBRARY A suggestion that a technical library should be established for the educating of members of the staffs of the City Corporation was made at a farewell function this morning by Mr G. A. Lewin, who has retired from the position of Town Clerk of Dunedin.

Mr Lewin said that he had accumulated a fair quantity of literature dealing with municipal administration during the time he Sad been in office, and ho intended leaving that behind in his office. A library of literature of the kind could with very great advantage be established in the Town Hall for the benefit of members of the staffs. Some improved means of educating the staffs could be brought about in that way, and the members could take the opportunity of studying the business) in which they were engaged. They would find an increasing need for study; the need for specialisation was becoming more intense and more acute year by year. If young men in the service were to make headway and to get some of the few “ plums,” they would have to be even more qualified than in the past. He hoped his suggestion that a library should bo formed would bo accepted. There was a wide range of literature on local body administration, but it needed a judicious selection to be of any real value. Mr J. G. Alexander (city engineer) expressed thanks to Mr Lewin for his exceedingly generous offer to hand over the library he had accumulated. He was sure that if it could be arranged a library as suggested by Mr Lewin would be established so as to be readily accessible to the members of the staffs both at the Town Hall and in departments outside the hall. It would be of the greatest possible benefit to the staffs concerned. •