Part of the recent work on near-rings has been concerned with sufficient conditions for near-rings to be commutative. Recently Howard E. Bell proved that if a d.g. near-ring R has an identity and for each x, y in R, there exists an n(x, y) > 1, such that (xy−yx)n(x, y) = xy − yx, then R is a commutative ring. In this paper we drop the requirement that R has an identity and show that the other condition is sufficient (and necessary) for R to be commutative. The inspiration for an important lemma, comes from a result of B.H. Neumann.