GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.
IMPORTANT CHANGES. By Telegiiaph.—Press Association. ,Wellington, Starch 18. The Times states that the Tourist Department will be taken over by the railways and controlled by Mr. Buxton, chief trall'ic manager. The Industries and Commerce Depart, mcnt will be separated from the Tourist Department and merged with the Agricultural Department, the head ot which will be the Hon. T. Mackenzie. After the retirement of Mr. Humphries, surveyor-general, his Department will lie absorbed by the Lands Department. The Prisons Department will become a branch of the Justice Department, and the State Fire and Accident Insurance Departments will l>e permanently amalgamated witli the Government - nsurance,
Jn all fourteen new department-, have been created since ISOI, hut most of them will be readjusted and merged in others. Christchurcli, Last Nigiil. The l'remier, interviewed regarding the rearrangement of Government departments as telegraphed from Wellington. said 110 proposal of the kind had been considered. Ho could not. deal with the subject until lie made a public statement, which would not lie for three weeks or more. The statements published are not correct.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 46, 19 March 1909, Page 2
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178GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 46, 19 March 1909, Page 2
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