1 MAY 1926, Page 11

I wonder whether we shall come to the introduction of

the City Manager in this country, a person: who has a prominent position in the administration of many leading American cities. There is much to be said in his favour in fact if not in principle. You go into the open market and obtain the best expert brains you can ; you pay your nominee adequately and you give him the powers enjoyed by the - managing director of a large industrial concern. In most large enterprises, certainly in the successful ones, there is one-man government, subject, of course, to the control of a Board of Directors. Why not in municipal affairs ?