BOARDS THAT DO NOT MEET.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 408, 18 January 1909, Page 2

BOARDS THAT DO NOT MEET.

It will sterile New Zealandcrs to-learrlj ]'-■ concerning {he British Board of Agriculture, Board of Trade, and Local Government - Board, that there'is no record of. any of :. these boards ever having met. ; ; What an; - outcry there would;be if it were found that r tho. Wellington Crown Lands Boards, for ex- '. ample, had never held a.meeting. ;.'-,:.;-V\' A Mr. T. P..'-.'Richards asked a question; ' concerning the matter in the British.Ho'u'si •'•'■.- of Commons recently, and tho Prime'.Mini ■":'■;. ster admitted that the.-boards 'had. neve?;', / met. The political head of the Departineh; was responsible' to Parliament for its pic ' cecdings. He did not think administrate .'•■/'.' efficiency would be gained by dismissing thl ■'' ■; present mombers'of the board and appointing ,•■ ',' a : board of representative members of Parlia-/. . ment without.pay to meet once a week. ' The / present Board of. Agriculture consists, o; '-~' eleveu members—namely, a: President of tlji'./Council, the., principal. Secretaries of Stats, ■ . tho First Lord of the Treasury, .the.,Chaii- ; cellor of the Exchequer, the Chancellor of ,)he;;, ; Duchy of Lancaster, ! and; the- Secretary .for, •" Scotland.. -••'- v- :- : ;/ : V'- ;;