CIVIL SERVANTS AND POLITICS.
» — ' MINISTERIAL STATEMENT, Tlio Minister for Hallways staled in a priiiled reply to a question by Mr. Hanau: "1 am (Irmly convinced thai j n lh o jjiLcrcsts of tho members, not only of tlio railway .service but of ill Departments 01 b ate m tins Dominion, tlio existing regulalions, which permit of their recording their votes, but which at (ho same time debar them from taking n prominent part in politics, should be adhered to. Tlio regulations wcro adopted for Ihe purpose of preventing members of State De. partmenls, unc.ojbuousiy or uniiitciilionally, pulling themselves in a false position. Tliey do not interfere with member* exorcisms reasonable political freedom but, for obvious reasons, it is.undesirable (nut members of State Departments should, by taking a prominent part in wilier general or kcal polities, place themselves in a position which might bring them into conflict with members of the general public when iu the discharge oi thp public duties connected with their usual avocations."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1202, 10 August 1911, Page 4
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165CIVIL SERVANTS AND POLITICS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1202, 10 August 1911, Page 4
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