ROYAL COMMISSIONERS.
It would be interesting to know just i what amount it has cost the Do- ' minion of New Zealand during the. >' tea or twenty years for Royal
Commissions, set up ostensibly to furnish Parliament with expert opinion on various questions. Possibly if the cost to the country were set down at £1'50.000 > it would not be over-estimated, (.'no may be excused for asking, '' Has the Dominion received value for its money ?" What has been the approximate benefit to the taxpayers of the Education Commission, the Police Commission, the Native Land Commission, the Timber Commission, and the various other commissions set up from time to time to provide the Government with accurate data upon which to construct its legislation? Has there been the slightest benefit?' The question was asked, for instance, in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, when the Prime Minister intended framing legislation on the lines suggested in the report of the Timber Commission. Sir Joseph Ward replied, in so many words, that, as the suggestions did not favour the sawmillers, he did not propose legislating at all. Why, then, the Royal Commission? Why the unnecessary expense? And echo answers, why?
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10065, 12 August 1910, Page 4
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194ROYAL COMMISSIONERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10065, 12 August 1910, Page 4
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