POWER BOARD MEETING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 252, 21 September 1934, Page 8

POWER BOARD MEETING.

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 20. Statements made by Mr W. JHoldsworth, chairman of the Auckland Electric Power Board, that the conference of Electric Power Boards and Local Supply Authorities Association 1 ‘rrot nowhere,” was “quite valueless and discussed “piffling remits,’ were criticised by Mr S. Blackley, a representative of the Hutt A alley Electric Power Board at the conference, at a meeting of the board to-day. “1 do not subscribe to the statements made by Mr Holdsworth, which might convey a wrong impression of the work done at the conference, said Mr Blackley. “Mr Holdsworth possibly had reason to be disappointed in more than one respect. We cannot always get ouf own way and we cannot all be president of the conference, but when one submits a report to a committee one should not be annoyed because his report is not swallowed wholesale. That is what happened and it is not quite the thing for a member of the executive committee to refer to the work of the conference as ‘valueless’ and the remits as ‘piffling,’ and to say that the conference ‘got nowhere.’ “At every conference there are bound to be one or two ‘piffling remits' and the proper course then is to do as Mr Holdsworth said—pigeon hole them.”