Mar, 15.
"The objects aimed at," say-the Electricity Committee in the report published on Saturday. "are (1) to make the management of the Department stronger and more efficient and (2) ta relieve the Council of responsibility for such management." Con-paring these objects with the recommendations subsequently set out, one may say at once, first that the Council would merely be relieved of management, not of responsibility; secondly, that great deal depends upon the meaning of the word '"'management when we come to estimate how far the Committee's scheme would make it "'stronger and more efficient.""_ Now it will not be possible to dispose of all the reports before us in a single article, and therefore we would ask our readers to have patience with us in more than one: for the question is of vital importance, and the community is naturally anxious to deal with it
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