TOO MUCH RED TAPE; TOO MANY DEPARTMENTS
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GREYMOUTH, Nov. 29. Though a farm of 552 acres close to Greymouth was olfered - by tne owner to the Rehabilitation: Bepartmeut two years ago, it was iiot uiitil yescerday when its sale to a ci*vilia>.i. came before the Westland Land Saies Committee that the Crown. interested itself in the proposition, and it sought to have the property taken under section 51 of the Act as suitahle for the settlement of exservicemen. Criticism of the action of the Crown was voiced by the committee whose chairman (Mr. M. Wallace) said: "There is too much red tape, too many departments and too many fingers in the pie." He was trying to ascertain from witness whose responsibility it should have been to have acted on the offer of the f&rmer . to the State. Bewilderment at the action oi the Rehabilitation, Lands Department and State Advances, which were involved in the transaction at various stages, was expressed. In giving its decision to adjourn the application the committee declared it could not commend the methods of the departments and that the Crown had fallen down pn
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 December 1947, Page 5
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