A CITY COMMISSION.
The experiment of administering municipal affairs in Sydney by means of a Civic Commission seems to have proved successful in at least one important respect. The estimated saving to the city is already put down at £.100,000, and it is said that the commissioners' treatment of tenders alone has effected economies covering more than the whole cost of their salaries for two years. There are many things to be said in favour of ordinal municipal government as contrasted with the rather despotic and autocratic methods of a commission. But in cities where, as in Sydney, administrative extravagance has gravely imperilled civic and public interests, the City Commission appears to be a remedy which is less dangerous than the disease.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 41, 18 February 1929, Page 6
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122A CITY COMMISSION. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 41, 18 February 1929, Page 6
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