GOVERNMENTS BY COMMISSIONERS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20101, 3 December 1930, Page 15

GOVERNMENTS BY COMMISSIONERS.

*0 IBE EDITOB OT THE PEESS. Sir—Both Sir Otto Niemeyer and *». Commission on the Railways hav© ■*« M that the quickest way to ge* *8 railways back on to their feet Hm i» to divorce them from policontrol. Surely the same thing ItfV 0 the whole of New Zealand/j"* been done with conspicuous sties' m w est Ham, London, Sydney *2:^ nd I>ublin City (where great TSft was expressed by the people rL ~Hk ing over again by the City 2 cU , from the Commissioners). All £** nlaceg have big populations, ana JJ»> » no doubt whatever that three gw w>mmissioners would run New J3*w far more efficiently than our taill 115 - The Oloblem is how y iSl B =i? chan ge about and I can see "W■ with all the interests vested in '. 3 s I* would be difficult; but the - w» of New Zealand are not fools, ra j,?P a »»a down the country, from unll*v- e,ld ' P 6^l6 realise that "the Tt3S ■*** P u 'l that way" policies ans are fading us into a Jl? King and his Privy Council 2*> petitioned to appoint three fSff'" »ith absolute powers »«»«n7ji I m of one Parliament, but LT™. fi Kt have to get a House of toSolv 8 , wi * h a majority Wai»v thls platform. Things are f » EL Zealand, and going to be t£ '*»'., l* or * e before thev are better; t* a,,,, »„.I°5 nm S headlone alone the . l« J. V 1 that Australia has followed. * "Ww* *£ not the vast natural re- »* %tn,h countrv to help us re- *!! -W. x ths inevitable smash upi»f ""«, etc., ft ' fend*, 0., OBVIOUS. "binder 2nd. 1930.