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DI-ARDAOIN, 5mh LATHA DE'N GHEARRAN 1970 THURSDAY, 5th FEBRUARY 1970 No. 75 Sixpence
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A view of the Stornoway waterfront
Highland Businessmen Attending
Management Course
^BOUT thirty businessmen
from the seven Highland
counties will meet in Inver¬
ness this week to attend a
general small business man¬
agement seminar. Organised
by the Highlands and Islands
Development Board, the semi¬
nar commenced yesterday
(Wednesday, February 4) and
will run until Friday Feb¬
ruary 6.
The object of this exercise
is to provide small manufac¬
turing and processing firms
— irrespective of their pro¬
duct — with information,
advice and practical discus¬
sion on the techniques of
business management.
Subjects to be covered
during the course are plan¬
ning, marketing, costing, pro¬
duction, productivity, control
and personnel. The team of
lecturers will be drawn
mainly from senior Board
staff, with two guest speakers
with wide experience relevant
to the course.
A spokesman for the Board
said: “Clearly we are not a
training or educational orga-
nisataion; training is the
statutory responsibility of the
various Training Boards. We
see our role in undertaking
this type of seminar as ser¬
vicing the smaller, new or
expanding businesses by in¬
troducing them to our area
policies and, in particular
providing after-care to those
companies in whom we have
invested. These seminars are
intended as an introduction
to the further training pro¬
vided by these equipped and
staffed to handle it.”
Over the past few years,
several companies in the
Highlands have run courses
on particular aspects of
management; the Highland
Association of the British
Productivity Council have
also provided courses in
special subjects. Last year,
1969, the H.I.D.BV in co¬
operation with the Hotel and
Catering Industry Training
Board mounted two three-day
seminars to cover sectors or
hotel management.
DUAIS DO LEODHAS
(^HOISINN companaidh
MacLeoid, Shiaboist, mui-
lionn chloitean a Leodhas an
aon duais a thainig a dh'
Alba o’n British National
Export Council airson na
chuir iad a null thairis de'n
chlo air a bhliadhna chaidh
seachad. Tha 16 duine ag
obair ’sa mhuilionn agus
buinidh i do’n teaghlach.
Chuir iad a mach gu leir
luach £162,000 am bliadhna
an coimeas ris an £73,000 an
uiridh.
Gheibh Aonghas MacLeoid
an duais so an Lunnainn air
an 4mh de’n Mhairt. A thuil-
leadh air an sin tha saor
laithean an asgaidh co-chean-
gailte ri so git Los Angeles,
New York is Bermuda is se
an gafair Aonghas MacLeoid
dha bhithear a- tairgse seo.
Macleod’s Tlweed Co., of
Shawbost, on th^ Isle of Lewis,
are the only Scottish firm to
receive an export award for
small firms from the British
National Export Council. The
company, who make handwoven
Harris Tweed, employ 16 and
are a family concern.
Last year the export value of
their tweed was £160,000 com¬
pared with only £73,000 the
previous year.
Mr Angus Macleod, the
managing director, said yester¬
day that the award was a shot
in the arm not only for the firm
but for the industry on the
island. He will receive the
award in London on March 4.
In a4dition, he has nominated
his foreman, Mr Angus Mac¬
leod and his wife, for a 14-day
holiday to Los Angeles, New
York and Bermuda which is
part of the award.
Death of Donald Grant
FORMER PRESIDENT OF
M C0MIM
'J'HE death occurred in Spain, on Sunday 1st February,
1970, of Mr Donald Grant, M.A., B.Ed., one of the
leading figures in An Comunn Gaidhealach during the
past two decades.
A native of Skye, Mr Grant had spent most of his
working life in the teaching profession in Glasgow. He
retired as headmaster of Broomhill Primary School in
1968.
He was President of An Comunn Gaidhealach from
1965-68 having served as Convener of the Finance
Committee from 1954-60 and at the time of his death
was serving on the Mod and Music, Advisory, and
Publications and Education Committees.
Donald Grant was of course a. former Bard of An
Comunn Gaidhealach and had been editor of An Gaidheal
in 1963-64.
He is surv^ed by nPrS a son :$nd daughter
to whom we extend sympathy in their bereavement.
(A full appreciation will appear in our next issue)
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