Sir Gwilym Gibbon
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1948.tb02645.x |
| Date | 01 June 1948 |
| Published date | 01 June 1948 |
PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION
14th January.-Form
T.C.
3/8/CPL
in
respect of further 0.76 standards
of
softwood required forwarded to the Ministry.
21st January.-Telephone message received that building priorities have been
issued
by the Ministry direct to the contractor for the scheme.
29th January.-Memorandum from histry enclosing licence to purchase the
balance of 0.76 standards of softwood required for the scheme.
The authorisation for steel required for heating and hot-water
supply
relates to the
fourth
quarter of
1948,
and
the local authority are endeavour-
ing to obtain second-hand equipment
so
that the building can be com-
pleted in the near future.
It
is hoped
that
the building will
be
in com-
mission by about the beginning of June, 1948.
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
Mrs.
-
-
.-This
woman
(a serious T.B. case given only a short
time to live) was chargeable by
way
of
institutional assistance in the
-
Hospital
:
-
12th December, 1945.-Repatriated with her child to
-
,
Eire, as a matter of
urgency.
7th January, 1946.-Town
Clerk’s
letter to
Ministry
of
Health
informing
them
that the Committee
had
agreed
to
this repatriation and asking for approval
to payment of amount involved (&3 16s. 5d.) under Section 228 (1) of
the Local Government Act, 1933.
(This
letter
was
delayed in order that correct amount involved could
be confirmed after consultation with Eire authorities.)
9th January, 1946.-Ministry’s letter to Town Clerk giving necessary approval.
Sir
Gwilym
Gibbon
WE
announce
with
regret the death
of
Sir
Gwilym
Gibbon,
a
ViceResident
of
the
Institute and one
of
its foundation members. He was aged
73.
He
mered
the Post Ofice in 1894, but
in
1903 went to
the
Local
Govenrmcnt
Board
and
remained in its service and
that
of its successor, the Ministry of Health, until 1936,
when he retired He was then Director
of
the
Local
Government
Division
of
the Ministry.
APPRECIATIONS
“
Gibbon grows more like a Welsh Nonconformist
parson
every
day,”
Sir
William
Hart
once said to me
jokingly
after
a
meeting of
the
Institute. One
can
see the point of the remark.
His
was an ardent spirit.
To
him the public
service was scmeching approaching
a
mission
and
a passion. Not simply that
he
was
devoted to his official work. There are
many
civil
servants
and
local
government officers
of
whom it
my
be said that
they
live for their
work
and
are
completely absorbed in
it.
Too
often this absorption narrows
and
dehumanises,
but with Gibbon it never did.
His
official duties opened for him doors into wide
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