GOVERNMENT FROM WELLINGTON.
In an article winch is apparently inspired from bead-quarters, tbo “Otago Daily Times/ 7 thus summarises some of the principal propositions which have to be decided in reorganising our system of Government.: — 1. Shall administration be central or local! 2. If local, how local I Shall each Island, or each Provincial District, or each County be the unit! 3. Shall public ollicers have full discretionary powers to deal with local questions within the sphere of their authority ! I. How shall they be inspected and kept under control! 5. Shall the chain of responsibility to Ministers, and through Ministers to Parliament, be an individual one, or a collective departmental one ! (1. If the latter, cannot audit be greatly simplified by centering the responsibility in the local head of each department, and leaving him to provide his own checks, subject to occasional inspection! On the answer to such questions as these depends the adequacy of the reorganisation which the Government is now about to undertake, and the ultimate solution of the problem:—How to govern well, and yet to govern cheaply.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2346, 23 September 1880, Page 2
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181GOVERNMENT FROM WELLINGTON. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2346, 23 September 1880, Page 2
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