Maiden speech
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TO BE APPOINTED on December 1 and address his own "parish" within a fortnight is a record to the credit of Ernest Reffold, the new regional manager of the Road Transport Industry Training Board for the London and the South Eastern Counties region.
The occasion was a meeting of the Metropolitan centre of the Institute of the Motor Industry at London's Livingstone Hall. Any missionary zeal engendered by his surroundings in exploring the largely uncharted territory of road transport training was obviously not allowed to get out of hand when he bluntly told his audience "If training doesn't pay—don't do it."
In similar forthright vein Eric Tindall, director-general, RTITB, said their problem was not only determining what training was required now but also forecasting what future requirements would be—whether in two years or twenty. It was a terribly difficult decision. But that was no excuse for not making a decision.
Sentiments, I believe, the explorer himself would commend.