THAT BANQUET.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1216, 26 August 1911, Page 10

THAT BANQUET.

Sir,—l see that a number of sycophants, with a^lively sens? of favours, to. come, aro organising n, banquet to Sir Joseph Ward and Sir John Findlay on their return from the festivities- they have been participating in, and I should like to ask what either of them has dono. to merit such a function being held in their honour. What did Sir Joseph Ward do for tho fifteen hundred pounds that,was granted to him for travelling expenses? Proposed a lot of foolish resolutions at tho Conference, some of wliich were, laughed at and thrown out; and in addition to Hib fifteen' hundred ho coolly draws another forty pounds-a week all the while he has been away. Sir John Findlay's case is still more .barefaced. He was not asked to go Home, but his "pal" found him a job to ' look after some mythical law. case, beaming on something that happened beforo any of us were born, and on the strength of that he gets carte blanche to go Home, and charge this suffering country for his Services— (save the mark)—on our behalf. Is not it about time, sir, that this scandalous waste of publio money was stopped, aud the wasters of it sent to political oblivion? It is to be hoped that the men on whom this burden principally falls (i.e., the workers) will, at tho forthcoming elections, refnjo to b3 bluffed and bamboozled by tho effrontery and soft-sawder of this newly-made aristocrat and Ms supporters, and will promptly kick them out of power and let. somo able, conscientious men take the helm for a spell.—l am, etc., ■GEORGE THOMAS. Petone, August 23, 1911.