JOKE OR SCANDAL?
THE CINDERELLA OF STATE
DEPARTMENTS.
"The housing of the Department of Industries and Commerce would bo a joke if it were not an absolute scandal," said the president of the Industrial Association (Mr. C. J. Ward) last night "The offices of the Department are situated far from the business centre if the city, in about-’ the most inaccessible pa-t of Wellington. One might be excused for thinking that the location had been designedly chosen to retard the development of the Department. Surrounded by suburban homes and 'boardingmuses, the building might do for a registry olbce for domestic. servants run by a. Indy officer of the Labour Department, hut for a Department of Industries it is a monument of ineptitude, if ncHiing worse. "The staffing of the Department, to tlie average business man, seems tradeefluatq, and in 'I ho prosecution lot n vigorous policy of development of our manufacturing industries, it is to be sincerely hoped Hint the chairman of the Department is not unduly optimistic in his estimate of the amount of attention the board will lie able to devote tn the industrial welfare of the Dominion. Risking the danger of adverse comment, and sharing your adversion to ern parison, one cannot avoid I'-ntrnsHng llm treatment meted out to this Cinderella ol the Department with thnt g>vcti to the elder sister of Agriculture.’’
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 169, 13 April 1921, Page 7
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226JOKE OR SCANDAL? Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 169, 13 April 1921, Page 7
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