AN IMPROPER POSITION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 846, 18 June 1910, Page 10

AN IMPROPER POSITION.

Sir,—lt has been a matter of no small surpriso to me, as it doubtless was to miiny others, that so little notice has been taken of the unwarranted action of the Labour representative, Mr. J. A. M'Cullough, in connection with tho election in Auckland. As ho occupies a purely judicial position, and as his services arc paid for by the country, and not by Labour unions, tho people at large have a right to expect that ho would comport himself in a dignified manner. By the way, his election was something of a puzzle; it was secured largely by tho railway votes; but as the railway employees had very decisively refused to come under the operation of tho Arbitration Act, tho writer could never understand why they should be allowed to voto on any matter appertaining to airy arbitration matter. Yet so it was. His conduct since his elevation to tho position has not been any improvement of that of his predecessor, rather the reverse; it certainly has not justified his appointment. His latest action does not appear to fit in with his position in the-.Arbitra-tion Court in my way.—l am, etc., AGRICOLA; J.une 7, 1910.