A Case For The Ombudsman
Critics of bureaucracy will This is surely the sort of seize delightedly upon the administrative high-handed-dispute between the Crown ness w * ich the Ombuds- ,,, _ . man (Sir Guy Powles) may and the Christchurch Dram- direct his attention most age Board over the removal usefully. The board, inof a pipeline from under stead of pursuing further buildings at the Cashmere what seems to have proved High School. As long as the a singularly frustrating pipeline remains, every citi- campaign through Miniszen may justifiably claim, terial channels, should try with Mr T. D. Flint (a to enlist the Ombudsman’s member of the board), that aid to settle a matter in- “ there seems to be one law volving principles quite dis"for the Crown and one proportionate to its trivial "for ordinary persons”, nature.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30062, 21 February 1963, Page 14
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