BRITISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT
. PROPOSED REFORMS EXPLAINED. British Official Wireless. Rugby, Oct. 6. Sir Kingsley Wood, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, addressing the second of the series of conferences which he is holding with representatives of local authorities to explain the Government’s scheme for the derating of industry and the reform of local government, said that social services were costing the country over £1,090,000 daily. Many of them were administered by no fewer than six separate organisations and there was an unanswerable case for greater co-ordination.
Referring to the criticism that the reform proposals would lessen the interest of the electorate in municipal work, be said he believed the new system of block grants would ensure a greater measure of local responsibility. It would certainly make for greater freedom from the interference of White hall in local administration.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1928, Page 9
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