BUREAUCRACY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 November 1927, Page 4

BUREAUCRACY.

*(To the Editor). Sir, —At sundry times the Public Trustee advertises the increases in his business, the high rates of interest paid and low rates of charges (received —all no doubt with the untention of inducing more business. Thoughtful people, nowever, ask where it is all going to eud. Are me ultimately to be governed in matters legal by a huge department of State? Evidence of the pi-ogress of the bureaucratic spirit in England has been seen in some cases that have engaged the King’s Bench division of the High Court of England, and at a recent public dinner Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice, rerer.red t-o tho "restless encroachment of the <arroga.nt pretensions of bureaucracy in our midst,” and went on to say, ‘‘the name of -self-government warn'd be a mockery, an irritating mockery, if it became a vast army of anonymous officials hidden from view, placed above the law, and administering a topsy-turvy system whereby the servants of the public would become the masters. That is a proposition upon whch I do not propose to hold my tongue iso long as I have a tongue to use.” Yours, etc., "BRANFIELD.”