SYDNEY SCANDALS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 54, 12 September 1928, Page 10

SYDNEY SCANDALS

—■ «. PURIFYING CIVIC ADMINISTRATION (From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY,. 31st August. In the light of the Boyal Commission's revelations which are providing Sydney with such piquunt reading, thero is already a strong niovo for tho extension of the tol'in of appointment of tho Civic Commission which now controls tho city. That tho Commission feois it impossible to do full justice to its job, in tho comparatively short period allotted to it under tho Act, is no secret. Whatever the attitude of the Government may be, the public is amply satislled with the new regime, and, in tho light of recent exposures, is only sorry that it was not given the task of eivio cloansmg much earlier.. This, of course, is not the first timo that Sydney has been governed by a Commission, but it appears to have boon less fortunate in tho porsonncl of that body than in the Commission of to-day. Excess of zeal appears to havo led to the abolition of tho original Commission, and tho reconstitutiou of the City Corporation in 1557. As in tho present caso, it was a temporary expedient to meet, a desperate situation. Faced with an exacting t:isk, but with tho sympathetic co-oper-ation of tho Press, which lias had hardly a word to s;iy in criticism of it, tlio Commission to-day is doing its work effectively and unobtrusively.