LOCAL BODY OFFICERS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3046, 31 August 1933, Page 3

LOCAL BODY OFFICERS

PILLING POSITIONS. HIGH STANDARD AIMED AT. An opinion that the Governmentshould devise some system to ensure; that efficient men were appointed to* local bodies in administrative capacities, was expressed by Mr S. P. Day,.' secretary of the Franklin Electric Power Board, in speaking at the Pdkeno Chamber of Commerce dinner last week. It was the general experience that when an administrative position in local body became vacant, that as the result of “string-pulling,” the wrong? man was appointed ahead of the efficient one. Before the Government considered present agitation in regard to local bodies, it should study the aspeefmentioned. He believed that all applications for local body executive positions should be -submitted to some board, one member of which would be an officer of the audit department. Several classes of local bodies were attempting to establish a standard of efficiency and the setting of examinations to equip their officers. In conclusion, Mr Day stated that administrative expenses could bo greatly reduced when there were efficient men in executive positions.