Institute Notes and News
| Date | 01 July 1938 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1938.tb02096.x |
| Published date | 01 July 1938 |
Institute Notes
and
News
Annual
General
Meeting.-The sixteenth annual general meeting of the Institute
was held
at
Montagu House, Whitehall,
S.W.1,
on
Thursday,
28th
April, 1938,
under the chairmanship of
Mr.
C. Kent Wright, Chairman of the Council.
The Council presented their annual report, the main items of which are
sum-
marized below
:
-
There had been
a
steady
flow
of membership from the three sources to which
the Institute looks for support-civil servants, local government oEicers, and
University staffs engaged
in
teaching public administration.
A
number of elected
members of local authorities have become members of the Institute under the new
provision in the constitution for admitting to membership persons who, while not
public servants or teachers of public administration, are
"
actively interested or
concerned in the practicq or study of public administration." The groups
in
Australia are flourishing and the visit
of
Sir Josiah Stamp to Sydney provided
a
welcome contact with them. The Group
in
Southern Rhodesia recorded a successful
conference, while helpful association
has
been maintained among members of the
Institute
in
Canada, New Zealand and
South
Africa.
The unifying character
of
an.interest in the constructive work of public a.dminis-
tration,
in
a
world where the centrifugal forces are all too threatening, has
found
evidence during the year in
a
closer association
of
the two international organisa-
tions concerned with public administration-viz., the Internatjonal Institute
of
Administrative Science and the International Union
of
Local Authorities. American
influence has been active
in
this movement. The Institute
is
affiliated and
is
helping to encourage international co-operation
in
the study of administrative
institutions and methods.
The following research studies undertaken with the aid
of
the grant from the
Spelman Fund were issued during the year
:-Principles
of
Social Administration;
by
T.
S.
SIMEY,
M.A.
(Oxford University Press,
10s.);
and
British Experiments
in
Public Ownership and Control;
by
TERENCE
O'BRIEN.
(Allen
&
Unwin,
10s.
6d.)
Other studies in hand include those into
Decentralisation
itz
Central Government
Departments,
the
Public Health Services,
and
Local Authorities: Consolidated
Loans Fund.
An extension of the facilities for obtaining
a
diploma in public administration
was provided
by
the decision of the University of London
to
establish
a
special
,diploma open to those who have
not
matriculated.
The Council reported that special steps were being taken to encourage, through
the medium of the Institute, closer co-operation between staff organisations and
colleagues in other branchcs of
the
public service.
The report referred to the lamented death
of
the honorary treasurer, Mr.
F.
G.
Bowers, comptroller
of
the London County Council, which occurred in ~937. The
office
of
honorary treasurer had been filled temporarily by Lieut.-Colonel
T3.
Barnes.
Mr.
A.
J.
Waldegrave,
the
honorary secretary, had informed the Council
of
his wish to be releaaed from the duties of that office, though he was willing to
Overseas and international membership continues to improve.
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