UNDER-SECRETARIES.
The decision of the Government to secure legislative authority for the appointment of Parliamentary under-secretaries, who will be appointed for specific purposes when the need arises, was probably inevitable. Ministers in .this Government, in consequence of Labour's policy of insisting upon direct Ministerial control, are already heavily burdened, and the volume of new and experimental legislation, some of which will be much more difficult to administer than it was to pass, will make their tasks still more diverse and onerous. There is ■therefore, both from the Ministerial point of view and for public reasons, sound argument in favour of providing them with assistants who, while under Ministers' supervision, will have a status and specific duties. The first under-secretary, Mr. Savage announces, will be placed in charge of the Government's housing policy. If he makes a success of that policy he will be fully entitled to preferment when a full Ministerial post falls vacant.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 183, 4 August 1936, Page 6
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