Was Power Boards’ Conference Useless?

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 221, 21 September 1934, Page 6

Was Power Boards’ Conference Useless?

A STATEMENT CRITICISED Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Statements made by Mr. W. J. Holdsworth, chairman of the Auckland Electric Power Board, that the conference of Electric Power Boards and Local Supply Authorities Association “got nowhere," was “quite valueless” and discussed “piffling remits," were criticised by Mr. S. Blackley, a representative of tho Hutt Valley Electric Power Board at the conference, at a meeting of the board to-day. “I 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 ono respect. We cannot always get our 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 tho proper course then is to do as Mr. Holdsworth said—pidgeon hole them."