27 AUGUST 1921, Page 12

LABOUR EXCHANGES.

[To rue Enrroa or THE " SPECTATOR."]

desire to endorse all you say about these positively useless Exchanges. I have gone to them over and over again, and have never had a single useful person recommended to me. I can get far better results by advertising in the daily Press. Recently I advertised for a manager of a large grocery business, and some clerk in a Labour Exchange sent me the name and address of a saddler ! The way money is being absolutely wasted by our eo-called administrators is past speaking about. It does not require a committee to convince the ordinary business man of the incapacity of our administrators. I am now paying double postage for postal facilities, and the distribution of letters has been reduced from four to two deliveries per day. This is the result of over two million in bonuses! National Insurance Offices are another example of officialdom run mad. The numbers are legion. Red tape is the order of the day.—I