 | Cobden Club (London, England) - Local government - 1875 - 472 pages
...business of the central authority should be to give instruction, of the local authority to apply it. Power may be localised, but knowledge, to be most useful, must be centralised." Thus, Parliament has laid down fixed principles for the assessment of property to local rates, so that... | |
 | Cobden Club (London, England) - Finance - 1882 - 568 pages
...business of the central authority should be to give instruction, of the local authority to apply it. Power may be localised, but knowledge, to be most useful, must be centralised." Thus, Parliament has laid down fixed principles for the assessment of property to local rates, so that... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Local governmant - 1883 - 186 pages
...of its functions in giving advice and instruction can hardly be disputed. "Power," says Mr. JS Mill, "may be localised, but knowledge to be most useful must be centralised. There must be somewhere a focus at which all its scattered rays are collected, that the broken and... | |
 | Ernest Abraham Hart - Local government - 1885 - 88 pages
...business of the central authority should be to give instruction, of the local authority to apply it. Power may be localised, but knowledge to be most useful must be centralised ; there must be somewhere a focus at which all scattered rays are collected, that the broken and coloured... | |
 | David George Ritchie - Individualism - 1891 - 192 pages
...Diffusion of power may. well be combined with concentration of information. "Power," says JS Mill,1 "may be localised, but knowledge to be most useful must be centralised." Secondly, there are many matters which can more easily be taken in hand than others by the State as... | |
 | F. H. Millington - Housing - 1891 - 124 pages
...them in a handy form to the local authorities and the general public ; for, as Mill remarks, " Power may be localised, but knowledge, to be most useful, must be centralised." The excellent reports, Blue Books, and circulars, that have of late years been issued from the Government... | |
 | William Blake Odgers - Local government - 1899 - 306 pages
...acquired and of the advice thus given by the Board, cannot be exaggerated. "Power," says Mr. JS Mill, "may be localised, but knowledge to be most useful must be centralised." Unfortunately, the Board can seldom secure that its advice will be accepted and acted on. The Board... | |
 | Josef Redlich - Local government - 1903 - 474 pages
...of the central authority should be to give instructions, of the local authority to apply them. Power may be localised, but knowledge to be most useful must be centralised." 2 But although the main duty of the central department 1 This presumption is surely overstated. It... | |
 | Narayan Mahadev Parmanand - India - 1919 - 152 pages
...authorities to enforce them. " The book concludes with these observations : — '" Power ', says Mr. JS Mill, 'may be localised but knowledge to be most useful must be centralised. There must be somewhere a focus at which all its scattered rays are collected, that the broken and... | |
 | Municipal government - 1922 - 686 pages
...idea of local self-government. STATE BUREAUS FOR THE SUPERVISION OF MUNICIPAL ACTIVITIES Mill. " Power may be localised, but knowledge, to be most useful, must be centralised; there must be somewhere a focus at which all its scattered rays are collected, that the broken and... | |
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The authority which is most conversant with principles should be supreme over principles, while that which is most competent in details should have the details left to it. The principal business of the central authority should be to give instruction,... 
