Sessional Paper No. 98 of 1957 on the Manzoni Report on the Public Works Department.

Abstract

The immediate occasion for the decision to commission Sir Herbert Manzoni to make his investigations was a request by the Road Authority for the separation of the Roads Branch from the Public Works Department but very similar problems of organization, management and finance are posed by the existence of the other specialist Branches within the public Works Department and Sir Herbert Manzoni was inevitably led into Concurrent problems of the overall organization of a Works Ministry. Sir Herbert Manzoni's report has, therefore, dealt with the organization of a Government ·works Ministry as a whole and not exclusively with the future of the Roads Branch of the Public Works Department, but is the more valuable -and welcome in that it pursues recommendations on immediate issues of the future of the Roads Branch to their 1ogical conclusion and in their bearing on the future of other Branches…