ISLAND TERRITORIES

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3849, 4 October 1932, Page 7

ISLAND TERRITORIES

COST OF ADMINISTRATION AVENUES FOR SAVINGS The expenditure on tlio Cock Islands and Niue Island Adminij.tra tion should be reduced from £21,(500 to £IO,OOO as that would -appear a fair e •iitribu:i*-n irem New Zealand toward tho administrative costs in the territory, states Lhe report. Tho expenditure oH education iu particular could be- substantially reduced The amalgamation of the Cook Islands Department with the External Affairs Department i 5 als.> recommended. A thorough. overhaul of the expenditure and establishment will he undertaken! at the earliest j»o.sfible moment, with a view to relieving the New Zealand taxpayer, as far as might be practicable, of the cost of the Samoan Administration .