PUBLIC TRUST COMMISSION

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1654, 22 January 1913, Page 8

PUBLIC TRUST COMMISSION

Sir,—Owing to nbssnci. your is«uo of January 11, referrinsr to my letter in yours of January 10, did not come mime'diiitelv tinker niv. notice.' I can only say thnt the Commissioners' Masons, for not o.ftttnjr outside ' Wellington nr.o entirely elusive. Unless they have been appoint-, pd. as so nmnv others have \xeic to find «n£ as little as' "issible. they will, niter their method?. The reasons advanced for confining their operations to Wellington nre indW ?"od reasons for their travllin:?. ' Th-? a Volute powor!essp"ss of 0« locol or district managers of the-. D°pirtments is a' chief grievance, and little if that is to ,be heard, in' WcllinEfrn. Rurelv the. ennen<-cs of thesa two trentVmci visaing each provincial centre should, unless' they are morn, than usually extra- ■ vr.-ji.pt,' certainly b? : considerably l»ss ■than the agfrrewtc of 012 expenses of the "numerous witnesses from various parts of the Dominion who aro expected to appear before the- inquiry terminates." Tin conclusions of the Commission will bear hut little, weistht. and:,its".true, pnvposo will he hut ill served if. as you ray, it adheres to ih intention of rcstrictipg its sittinrs to WellinTton. \ The determination is nothing short 'if a very' (rrave ininstice to the rest of the. Dominion.

Whilo it is a source of, satisfaction _ to find Commissioners so roljiitons of saving "cxnonse to the country,"' the economy in this case is wholly false — T am. etc., .-' - SCRUTATOR. January ( 19.