INSTITUTE NEWS
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1959.tb01535.x |
| Date | 01 June 1959 |
| Published date | 01 June 1959 |
INSTITUTE NEWS
New Chairman
and
Vice-chairman
of
the
Executive Council
AT the Executive Council Meeting held just before the Annual General
Meeting, Mr
W.
L.
Abernethy was elected Chairman of the Executive Council
and Professor
W.
A. Robson Vice-chairman for the coming year.
Mr
Abernethy, Deputy Comptroller of the London County Council, was
formerly Treasurer of the Newcastle Regional Hospital Board. He has
served the Institute in many ways, as a member of the Executive Council
since 1954, as Chairman of the Research Committee for the last four years
and as a member
of
several Study Groups.
Professor Robson, who holds the Chair of Public Administration at the
London School of Economics and Political Science,
has
been a member of
the Executive Council since 1947 and is a former Chairman of the Institute’s
Research Committee.
The Annual Dinner
MR HERBERT MORRISON was regrettably unable to attend the Annual Dinner
held at County Hall on 24th April because he was unwell. His place as
Guest of Honour was taken at short notice by Sir Henry Self, Chairman of
the Electricity Council and one of the Institute’s Vice-Presidents. Sir Henry
spoke of the great opportunities which lie ahead in this nuclear age, and of the
important part which the Institute could play in realizing them. Lord
Bridges, in welcoming Sir Henry, reminded his audience of Sir Henry’s
outstanding career in many grades of the public service, and of the many
academic honours he had gained.
New Whitehall Series
THE
latest
and
seventh book to appear in the New Whitehall Series describes
the multitude of activities undertaken by the Ministry of Transport and Civil
Aviation of which its author, Sir Gilmour Jenkins, was Permanent Secretary
from the Ministry’s formation in 1953 until March this year. The Ministry
of Transport and Civil Aviation is one of the two Government Departments
which is most concerned with the difficult problem of the relationship between
the State and the nationalized industries-in this case not only the British
Transport Commission but also the two airways corporations. But the
Ministry carries out many more tasks which do not impinge
so
obviously
on
the man in the street-the shaping and execution of shipping and aviation
policy and the negotiations with other governments which this task entails
;
planning for the control of the merchant fleets of the free world in time of
war
;
and the control of troopships and other sea transport for the armed
forces.
It
was published for the Institute by George Allen
&
Unwin
at 21s.
;
members ordering from the Institute may buy copies for 16s. post free.
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