Government's Aim Is To Gel Out Of Peoples Way

Northern Advocate, 19 December 1949, Page 7

Government's Aim Is To Gel Out Of Peoples Way

AUCKLAND, Mon. (Sp.).—Ministers ot the new National Government will be able to approve, without further reference j to Cabinet, progress payments by their departments inside an overall figure fixed by Cabinet. |

The Prime Minister Mr Holland) confirmed this yesterday. A small but highly competent Cabinet secretariat had been established to notify departments of Cabinet authorisations, he said Under the new arrangements. Ministers would have a wider responsibility than fhev tad in t.h past I'ht origins mthority would come from Cabinet mcis : ns _nd Ministers would then be able ‘o authorise grants inside the original decision without continually going back to Cabinet. A scheme was being devised so that Cabinet would have a coordinated picture of the jrogres„ payments month by month in r e!ation to the otai mthorisanonr;. The reorganisation o: • ..abate p o cedurt was being done to increase efficiency and to hminate a lot of unnecessary detail, Mr Holland said.

“It will be our constant aim to avoid unnecessary delays in arriving at important decisions, so as no', to hold up trade for weeks at a time, he con- j t inued. i “Oui aim is that the Government i should get out of the road of people who know more about trading and production than ,ny Government" Mr Israel Jacobson, director of the American Joint Distribution Committee in Hungary, has bee?, arrested by the Hungarian police. Hungarian officials confirmed report; 'hat he was arrested bul refused to specify the charge? against him Mr Garold Trobe. Vienn lirectoi h 'ommiUec which a Jewish rebel .gency said that Mr Jacobson was arrested when he returned to Judapes after six weeks’ leave in America.