"TOO MODEST"

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22053, 8 September 1933, Page 2

"TOO MODEST"

SOCIETY OF ACCOUNTANTS. " Our society is too modest," remarked a member of the council of the New Zealand Society of Accountants at its recent meeting at Wellington. Another urged that the society should make researches into certain matters of great public importance such as unemployment taxation and other taxation. When the Acting Prime Minister (Mr J. G. Coates) was presenting the society's medal to Mr G. A. Duncan for his thesis on the financing, accounting, costing, and statistics of the dairy industry, he referred to the great importance of having the professional mind applied to farming problems and to other problems in which the factor of costs was formidable. The general question of currency was one which could well engage the attention of the Society of Accountants in research work. The president (Mr G. W. Eeid) said that Mr Coates had offered a valuable suggestion. The society had done so well with the thesis competition for the dairy industry that it might go further. The currency question would be kept in mind. The question of another thesis competition will be considered at the society's annual meeting next February.