Institute Notes and News
| Published date | 01 July 1936 |
| Date | 01 July 1936 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1936.tb02445.x |
Institute
Notes
and
News
Annual
General
Meetinp.
The fourteenth Annual General Meeting
of
the
Institute was held on 30th April,
at
Montagu
House, Whitehall, London, the
who
was
supported by members
of
the retiring
Council.
The minutes
of
the previous meeting having been
wnfirmed
the
Chairman
moved the adoption
od
the
Annual
Report
of the
Council.
The Report was
taken
page
by page,
salient
features
being
as
follows:-
There
had
been an
accession
of
182
fresh members, apart
&om
those
added
by
the
formation
of
a
new
Regional
Group
in
New South
Wales
with
a
membership
of
over
two
hundred.
This
don had not, however, more
than
auntenbalanced
the
loss
through
retirements, etc., and attention was
ded
to
the
provision
in
the Constitution
under
which
Fellows and Members
may
continue
their
membership
of
the Institute,
after
retirment from
the
Service,
at
a
reduced
rate
of
subiption. The
formation
of
the
New
South
Wales
Group
had
been
an
encouraging feature
of
the
year's
activities
and
appreckdm
was expressed
of
the initiative
and
good organking
work
of
the
friends
in
Sydney
whose efforts had
led
to
the establishment
d
the Group.
The steps taken
to
increase the sale of the
Journal
among libraries, public
authorities, etc., had met
with
considerable success.
Efforts
to extend the
membership
of
the Institute had
not been
so
successful,
but
experience
in
methods
of
approach had
been
.acquired.
During
the year, seventeen Associates
of
the Institute had bwme Fellows
on
the
g;round
of
academic
qualification.
It
was
noted
with pleasure
that
Oxford
and
a
Certificate in Public Administration.
Towards
the
end
of
the
year the Institute
had
beccune af6liated
to
the
Institut InternutionaE des Sciences Administratives,
whose headquarters
is
at
Brussels.
Much
attention
was
being turned by other countries
to
administrative
thought and practice
in
Great Britain. The Institute was already affiliated
to
the
International
Union
of
Local
A~th~fitie~.
The
scheme
of
research, promoted with the valuable assistance
of
a
grant
from
the Spelman Fund of
New
Ymk,
had
made
good
progress and
a
further
programme running to
the
end of
1937
was
being mged.
Particulars
of
the Conferences, Lectures, Lundeoa Aadresses,
Visits
to
places of administrative interest, etc., showed that an extensive field had
been
covered, in London,
at
provincial centres, and
at
the headquarters
of
the
Australian Groups. In some
cases
programmes had been arranged
in
mpera-
tion with the National Association
of
Local
Government Officers and the Institute
of
Municipal Treasurers.
Chair being taken by Major G. Parker
Moms,
Town Clerk
of
WestminSt
a,
University had now introduced
a
Diploma in
Public
and
So&al
A-
ti0n
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