BOARD RULE.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20500, 19 March 1932, Page 16

BOARD RULE.

example of new south WALES. SPOILS TO THE VICTORS. (jrBOK OVZ OWK OOBBKSPONDEHT.) SYDNEY, March 10. When they Bay in the crop of new season's boards and commissions is comipe «1»»« ""j' the, »r,^STiacre^ ministration tbat * , ly un der *lr S'Si-wL UNSouth Wales several candidates at 'o State and Federal ,X ported the IW.yir.to teated have f Q_ t hey have been of Parliament. And tney tiw 5SS te iSsuccessivo Party lias iSHffkS&'SHS £ p™-. SUetst' "£L»ly distrfbuteu the spoils to the victor "J Jf' ! „ f W^Kw'SrW^sttreki.. s^ASJsssrs Lh« oeoole are unable to pay the price demanded? New South Wales is practiSay (Rented by boards which enter every phase of the national life. Soon there will be the Iraosport Commis-SViiiw-Mdi ■?r ke i, qtmtial salary—which will not only take over the railways and the tramways, but lay down rules to control every class of transport within the State. It will gather around it a huge staff, but in the latter connexion will he by no meahs unique, as far as boards co Here are the more important ot the boards and commissions m New South Wales, together .with the commitments on the current estimates :

Salaries, allow- Other ances, expenses, etc. etc. £ £ TTo ,-liniir Tnifit .. 42,333 204,670 tttW*- "MS 2^S Hospitals Commission .. 3,8X8 Industrial Commision .. 5,640 7,4.4 Read Transport Commission 240,940 2,873,176 Western Land Boaid •• - ForeEtry Commission .. Aborigines Protection ComIrrigation Commission .. 61,172 Public Service Board .. Superannuation Board 8,734 i.ess Marketing Bureau 6,350 ->s®®

These figures do not, of course, represent anything like the total expenditure by boards, commissions, and other Femwpublic bodies. There are all sorts of additional items under "special services," and a multitude of boards that are supposed to be more or less selfsupporting, but all dependent upon the Government for some share of their expenditure. These include the Meat Board, the Dental Board, the Pharmacy Board, tlie Medical Board, the Milk Board, the State Contracts Control Board, the Hallway Superannuation Board, the Licenses Reduction Board, the Tick Control Board, the Pastures Protection Board, the Electoral Commission, the Lord Howe Island Board of "Control, the Savings Bank Commission, the Metropolitan Water Board, the Hunter District Water Board, the E'etcrical Licensing Board, 1 the : Board of Optometrical Registration, and 90 on. Soon there wilT.b'«f% boafd to control the coal; And more boards art; tofollow. The Commonwealth has been almost as great an offender as the State Govniwents, and this has Prompted the comment that Ministers of State are no longer prepared to shoulder the responsibilities of their office. It seems to have become the practice to pass the real work on to "some other body.