DOUBLING AND TREBLING

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3645, 13 February 1932, Page 4

DOUBLING AND TREBLING

Yet all these special and highly paid bodies have to depend upon, tho heads of the Civil Service departments for their real information and,' probably for the solid suggestions that will be incorporated in their reports to Cabinet. Tt is sheer waste that is greatly to 'la* deplored especially at a time when money s hould ho saved instead of frittered away. Besides in the long scries of Royal Commissions that cost New Zealand taxpayers so much down through the past JO years what. benefit has resulted to the country s°' f a V as more efficient and cheaper government are concerned? And, after aW, those are the essentials. On c . Cabinet Minuter and two heads of departments - uld do all that- is required of the Economies Commission, another such trio could get all that the Budgetary Commissionary can report, whil s L Dr Afarsden alone until the depression has passed, could effect as much practical results for tho development of industries as the cumbersome and expensive 10 commissioners can do.