GOVERNMENT ADVERTISING.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1497, 20 July 1912, Page 4

GOVERNMENT ADVERTISING.

WHEN THE BOYCOTT CEASED. The Hon. T. M. B. Fisher made a statement yesterday on tho subject of Government advertising. "My attention has been called," he said, "to a paragraph in tho 'Lyttclton Times' of, Thursday in which it is stated, in connection with the late Government's methods of administering the Advertising Department, that Mr. Mackenzie, on taking office, had issued instructions that tho papers in Wellington should bo treated just as thoso in other centres were. The 'Lyttelton Times' went on to say that the return furnished by Mr. Fisher dealt with a eystem for which the late Government was not in any way responsible and still the Minister was trying to make it appear that the Government had kept the system in operation all along. "Vmn, reading, this, paragraph in tho T/yttelton Times continued Mr.' Fisher, "I referred to the officer in charge of the Advertising Department and asked him if ho had received any instruction either from Mr. Mackenzie or .from any member of his Government as to any ■ projected change in'the method of advertising. The officer has informed mo in roply that no instruction to that effect was ever given to the Advertising Department, -The result was that the old method was in operation at the date the Reform party oame into power. At tho present time the old method has ceased to exist."