AN IMPROPER APPOINTMENT
( i( Wellington Post.."), -i The job whloh we Bnnotmoed some tlrns ago to be m contemplation .has. now been perpetrated j 'and Mr Robert Trimble la gezatted a • Judge of . the. Native Land Oonrfc. For some myaterloua reason thia gentlemnn saems to have established ft claim on the colony to provide a comfortable billot foB him, What bis pabllo aervioes have been may be represented by a blank page. It has been. a great difficulty for the Government to know what: to gtva him. He waa offered "the itpbililon of Sergeimt-at-Acnaß, but It wasmoli^ood enough, Then he was tempted vith • seat la the Leglalative oounol,i 4 \,ut the honorarium ia small and tha expenaea ha«vyv Now, as a • ftaal provision, ,ha |b folated on the Native Lan^ Obart Bench ~a poalfclon foe whioh h^ does not posiesa one single qual.fioatlo):, although endowed with oertßln.aUri v jatda which should be regarded aa vasy grave dlequ»llfi6ationi r f|Sr a jadgeahip. Ho ib not a Maori aoholar, acd knows neither the iaoguage, tha oaatobaa, nor the traditions of the native lace. His aonduot while Chairman of tho •native Affairs Committee was not aaoh «s to Jni-pire oonfidenoa m him m the native" mind. No one who has watbhed his polltlp*l career can credit him .with the poßHßion of what is known as. a jadioikl mind. Hia whole temperament is that of it thorough going unreasoning partsfzan, who, having taken a side, oaa make no, r allofraooe for those who differ from him. It, la not of such matetlti tn«t *gpod judge Is made. The Government have cje'ason to, be ashamed of tha appointment '; ' 'i ''■ "— ™— m — — — >
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2287, 26 November 1889, Page 2
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275AN IMPROPER APPOINTMENT Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2287, 26 November 1889, Page 2
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