THREE COMMISSIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15005, 29 May 1912, Page 8

THREE COMMISSIONS.

THE COST OF LIVING. INQUIRY-OPENS ON -FRIDAY. [EX ,TZMtGEA3PIL<—*HBS3 fjiSSOCIi33ON.J" W-KVIXBGTOvr, Tuesday, The Royal - Commission set up to inquire into the cost of living will meet in Wellington on Friday morning. Mr. J. ,W- Collins (chief clerk in the Labour Department) lias been ■appointed secretary to tho Commission. A meeting of the advisory board of the Employers* Federation to-day considered the question of the Commission appointed to inquire *into the"- cost of living. Two resolutions weresadopted :— 1. **"That the advisory ' board, while ready to welcome-any practical inquiry into th» problem of the alleged greater cost of living, regret* that the personnel generally of the present- Commission,. And the fact that no political economists or statisticians-of any*.standing are-members, compels'the board to recognise the- Commission's futility." : 2.: *' . That, 'as the' iacreaseditcosfr^dt7lt~ ■ ing is -a subject of ,; world-wid© interest and importance ,and not peculiar to NeW ' Zealand, the Employers* Eedjerafion. considers it advisable that representation should be- made to the Imperial Government that a Commission, consisting of leading British political economists, statisticians, and others of expert knowledge, should bo set up to discover the basic cause, and that the New Zealand Government be requested to defer local inquiry nntir-tthisfinforrnationTS available. - .

EDUC ATION^CiOMMIgSION*

Mr. F. K. Be Castro, chief clerk of the Education Department, has been appointed secretary to the Education Commission. No time has. yet been fixed for the sittings of the Commission, bat it will probably meet in Wellington in a few days. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. The Civil Service Commission will com-' menco its sittings in Parliament Buildings, Wellington, on Friday.