RETRENCHMENT EXPECTED

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 27 April 1922, Page 3

RETRENCHMENT EXPECTED

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT SYDNEY, Api-.l 26.

In taking over control of the State enterprises, which as part of the scheme of economy have been transformed from separate department to a branch* of the Public Works Department, Sir T. Henley said that the policy of the Government was to encourage private enterprise in every way. He foreshadowed a review of the whole State enterprise scheme on strictly economical lines, securing the highest standard of efficiency and lull value for any expenditure which might be sanctioned. Reductions of staffs were indicated.