THE ECONOMY REPORT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 342, 1 October 1932, Page 5

THE ECONOMY REPORT

|ial Commissioner.)

|VER LAVISH SPENDING Lte departments under Iearching scrutiny LoUS' PRUNING ADVOCATED | repoi't of the National Expenditure Adjustment Com- | ffas tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday, live and detailed analysis of th'e Dominion's finances and toiny recommendations of the most far-reaching charLrtments of State have come under scrutiny and almost Irfion recommendations are made for vigorous pruning. j svstem, the Public Works Department and the DeKative Aifairs have drawn a large proportion of the fire. Lission condemns , in uncompromising terms, the lavish land uneconomical borrowing which have contributed to L present financial position, and in many cases, reLrtan measures as a corrective.

S Wellington, Friday. ■on was set up on JanKn(l consisted of Mescliairman, J. Begg, ®Esson, Messrs. J. L. Bhlacldntosh. It was ■uire into and report BLpenditure in all its Bcate economies that Kil if particular polic- ■ adopted, abandoned, generally io make ie■tothe Government for Brjth all poswiMe reduc5 expenditure, having Blv to the pvosent and Hticn of the public reHioners profi'.ct1 their Hation with tln> fullowHorvatioaK : ^WgatioRs I'.iive «ksciOsM adsninistrai.'Ve prm■en been suboi'dinatedl ^Berfed under the isiKi locaJ general ^R,e,,ai,d it as esseiatial Hull be taken to connBuence; hence oin* re6 for tb.o setting-up ■t boards. L that the dvlegation j Kircrs to i:i«h'pcndent j Bio'ato the priacipks of : Bernment and that tho j ■1Ust in ''V ry on.so rest j ■nt. We rut'ominend. | Bthi' decieion oi the j Bedcfioiteh' inelude the B Boavd— kauihi not be Ky authority other then i Bon propiwd ihvoughI are oMrinable if ■is takou ur*m ihe linea and wilh detennKt e-eonmni'.'S. W e have ■aclose fcnuiny of ex■di'partnu lits hy the ■fcy tho l itl'ik' M rvice Bwil! bbcb.-e ihe uossiKer on tho Holitir.'ed. K particularly applies, ■»gard to the perconnel K Service, and toaches ft* of redac.Ians which Rar'iy acconipanjr a re■e of eScia! business. ■ deprecate any ien«iRlain the numerical ■he psrscnnel nofcwith- ■ there has been a fall- ■ volume of wcrk. Kical Position Igations during tho past Beave no doul.t in our pe critical position into Iblie finanees of the k drifted, following on a 1 of lavish and often unpre of loan-money too iriuni between national ■expenditure is to be Id, and the paralysing ier-taxation minimised. Ipon overseas loans for ishoald cease, derirable pther serviaes hy the Ibe severely cartailed, ining-knifo tontinue to io all administrative lof our r jcummendations psidored and submitted lof stc*m lu-ccssity, but leconomit's \vo have reihould coutinne even in ines. ly of ihe savings rc-com-|s report so far as they pd is given hereunder. py i'ero!mn, r.dations in pich saviijgs eannot he I the total xvlll be far fce lcnown ainnunts shown pother pMint xvhich should Pokt'd— nainoly, that the [savings sh- v/n eannot be peet this year, as three e financial year have ald. Alloxvanees vvill have this respeet wlien calculpiblc savings ihis year.