LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
1 NEW BRITISH REFORMS. PRESIENT SYSTEM EXPENSIVE. more: co-ordination needed. (Received October 7, 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless. RUGBY, Oct. G. Sir Kingslev Wood, Parliamentary Secretary to tho Ministry of Health, addressed the second of a series of conferances he is holding with representatives of tho local authorities to explain the Government's scheme* for the derating of industry and the reform of local government. He said tho social services were costing the country more than £1,000,000 a :day. Many of them were administered by no fewer than six separate organisations, and Lhere was an unanswerable ease for greater co-ordination. Referring to the criticism that the re- • torm proposal# would lessen the interest :>f the electorate in municipal work, Sir Ivingsley said he believed the new system )f block grants would ensure a greater measure of local responsibility. It would :erlainly make for greater freedom from ho interferences of Whitehall in local administration.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20071, 8 October 1928, Page 9
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