"INTO THEIR'OWN."

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 188, 11 August 1930, Page 8

"INTO THEIR'OWN."

FUNCTION OF GOVERNMENT.

AUSTRALIAN POLITICIAN'S

VIEWS.

LESSON 'FROM HONULULU.

"If Australia and New Zealand are to come into, their own'they will-have to take' a leaf from the Honolulu book and leave business to those, who are capable of conducting it, confining themselves to governing and not running commercial enterprises," stated Sir Thomas Henley, member for Burwood, in the New South Wales Parliament, who is a through passenger to Sydney liy the Aorangi. . '

.Sir Thomas, who has spent the last few weeks in Honolulu, stated that the Hawaiian islands had an ideal form of government, in that private enterprise was given full scope. Public services ■were privately owned under a franchise, the Government interfering only as far as restrictions were concerned. "All- the services/' he said, "are conducted efficiently and successfully. lam fully convinced that this is. the proper system, as the individual has . far more scope for self-expression than is possible under public ownership. The Government fixes rates and certain conditions are imposed, and the private trading companies do the rest. ,

"Even the telegraph, telephone and wireless services are privately owned," said Sir Thomas, "and this places the Government in it's rightful position. I mean by that that the Government exists to carry out the function of government, and Australia and New Zealand might well follow suit."