LABOUR’S NEW BROOM.

Shannon News, 15 September 1925, Page 4

LABOUR’S NEW BROOM.

ANOTHER BOARD GONE. OFFICIALS’ MOTOR-CARS The premier of New South Wales, Mr. J. T. Lang, announced recently that he had abolished another board which had been created by the- Fuller Administration. He said that it had been created for the purpose of controlling advances to public officers for the purchase of motor-cars for use on official business. The departmental papers showed that for some years past the practice obtained of making advances to' assist public officers to purchase motor-cars for use during official duties, and an allowance of sd. per mile travelled by the cars was made.

The department lent a sum of money said Mr. Lang, for a period extending over four years, and th© rate of interest on the money lent was 6 per cent. Mi\ Stevens made a report to the then Premier and Treasurer, Sir George Fuller, that a board should be appointed to take charge of this particular work, and suggested a vote of £IO,OOO per annum.

Mr. Stevens recommended, said, the Premier, that the board should consist of a public service inspector, the manager of the State motor garage and the Under-Secretary to the Treasury. The board was appointed, and the minute was signed on June 1 last by Sir George Fuller. Mr. Lang alleged that ,lie did not know that such a board existed until a few days previously when the papers came before him. He thereupon decided that it should be abolished immediately.