SYDNEY ADMINISTRATION

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 179, 19 October 1927, Page 1

SYDNEY ADMINISTRATION

ABOLISHING ALDERMANIC RULE

PREMIER BAVIN DETERMINED

By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Received 9.45 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. rE new Premier of New South Wales, Mr. T. R. Bavin, announces that he is determined to give effect to his policy speech that aldermanic administration of city council affairs be superseded by the appointment of a Civic Commission, which will have a mandate thoroughly to reorganise every department of the Town Hall, in order to ensure efficient and economic administration, pending the election of the Greater Sydney Council.

TT is stated that a section of the Reform aldermen have joined the forces of the Municipal Labour caucus in order to prevent the appointment of a Civic Commission.

An, effort will also be made to secure co-operation of the municipal bodies throughout the State to prevent the Premier from carrying out his intention.

NEW MINISTRY The new Ministry has been sworn in, It is as follows: Premier and Treasurer. —Mr. T. R. Bavin.

Attorney-General and Vice-President of the Executive Council, —Mr. F. S. Boyce, K.C. Chief Secretary. —Mr. A. Bruntnell.

Works and Railways. —Mr. E. A. Buttenshaw (Leader of Farmers’ Party). Lands.—Mr. R. T. Ball.

Agriculture. —Mr. H. V. Thorby. Education. —Mr. D. H. Drummond. Local Government. Lieut.-Colonel M. F. Bruxner.

Mines and Forests. —Captain F. A. Chaffey.

Justice. —Mr. J. R. Lee. Labour and Industry. — Mr. E. H Farrar. Health. —Dr. R. Arthur. Assistant-Treasurer. —Mr. Stevens. Minister In Council. —Mr. J. Ryan.

Mr. Bavin states that Sir George Fuller was offered a position in the Cabinet, but declined it. At a meeting of the Labour Caucus to-day the ex-Premier, Mr. J. T. Lang, was elected leader unopposed. The Equity Court has dismissed Mr. J. R. Nield’s petition in connection with the election for the Hurstville seat.—A. and N.Z.

A Sydney cablegram of September 2 read as follows: The Leader of the New South Wales Nationalist Party, Mr. T. R. Bavin, speaking at Willoughby, referred to the government of Sydney by the City Council. Mr. Bavin said the condition of things was one that demanded drastic remedies. The Nationalists could not permit the continuance of a state of things which made every honest man hang his head when the name of the City Council was mentioned. If the Nationalists were returned to power the city would, he said, be placed under a commission as a means of restoring better conditions.