COST OF COMMISSIONS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3101, 20 August 1913, Page 10

COST OF COMMISSIONS.

£62,000 in 10 YEARS.

(From Ocr Own Correspondent.! WELLINGTON. August 12

A return which was submitted to the House of Representatives to-day showed that since 1902 there have been held in the dominion no fewer than 76 commissions at a total cost to the country of £62,445 10s sd.

A great nuu.ocr of the commissions wore Email in both extent and cost, and some dealing with borough matters involved the country in no charge at all. The most important inquiries wore the following:— Reprint of Statutes, 1903, £5625; Native Reserves Trusts, 1904. £2364; Lands, 1905, £10,377; Scenery Preservation, 1904-5, £1822; Police, 1905. £263; Maori Land Claims, 1994. £715; Burnham School, 1906. £558; Moiklc Inquiry, 1906, £2419; Scenery Preservation, 1905-6. £1221; Taieri Drainage. 1905. £200; Fires on Ships. 1006. £1413; Representation. 1906. £809; Nightcaps Disaster, 1907, £1121; Urewera Appeals, 1906, £805; Native Lands, 1907. £9583; Te Oranga Homo Inquiry. 1903. £278; Police, 1909. £1052; Addington Workshops, 1909. £207; limber, 1909, £2577; Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers, 1910. £1093; Tramway Brakes, 1910, £513; Mines. 1911, £3057; North Auckland Main Trunk, 1911. £1510; P. Heycs’s Inquiry. 1910-11, £992; Representation, 1911. £770; Education, 1912, £2275; Cost of Living. 1912 £1855; Gaming, 1911. £1889; and Public Service, 191112, £l6Ol.