Accountants and the Depression
CONVENTION AT AUCKLAND Ter Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. The third convention of the New Zealand Society of Accountants was opened to-night when the president, Mi H. Valentine, of Wellington, presided. The deputy-Mayor, Mr A. J. Entrican, officially opened the proceedings. In replying to the welcome, Mr S alentinc said that the economic and financial conditions at present were not happy ones, but accountants were not responsible for that. If the actvice of the accountants had been followed throughout the depression would not have been so acute.
At a meeting of the council, over which Mr 11. Valentine presided, it was stated that the academic board had recommended to the University Senate that the age limit for provisional matriculation be reduced from 25 years to 21. The council decided that for the purposes of its own examinations it would not accept the proposed reduction.
In reply to a suggestion that the society should have official representation on the University Senate, it was pointed out that no professional body is thus specially represented.
The application of Miss Ethel Hackworth, of Invercargill, for transfer from the status of Associate to that of Fellow was granted unanimously. She is the first woman who has ever received the Fellowship of the New Zealand Society,
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 41, 19 February 1935, Page 7
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214Accountants and the Depression Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 41, 19 February 1935, Page 7
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