CONFERENCE OF POWER BOARDS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 24 September 1934, Page 8

CONFERENCE OF POWER BOARDS

AUCKLAND DELEGATE’S CRITICISM MR. HOLDSWORTH’S STATEMENTS CHALLENGED (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, 20th September. The 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, representative of the I-lutt Valley Electric Power Board at the conference. “I dq 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 at a meeting of his board to-day. “Mr Holdsworth possibly had reason to be disappointed in more than one 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 that 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 conferences ‘got nowhere.’ At every conference there are bound to bo one or two ‘piffling’ remits, and the proper course then is to do as Mr Holdsworth said—-pigeon-hole them.”