THE POLITICAL HOLD-UP.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1858, 18 September 1913, Page 5

THE POLITICAL HOLD-UP.

, STRAIGHT CRITICISM,

(By Telegraph.—Spoclal Correspondent.) ' Auckland, September 17,

The blockage in Parliament has not resulted in any good to the Opposition as far as feeling goes in Auckland, and the average elector hero is inclined to think that the money cost of the waste of time had better been transferred to the roads vote. The "Herald" this morning says: "The Opposition party is admittedly more at home in attacking the Public Service Act which abolished the system of privilege and place-hunt-ing so long effectively used to bolster up their Ministerial weakness, than in professing indignation at delay in submitting reports, for which their present leader was himself notorious when in charge of the Government. Nothing could be more appropriate, nothing more likely to strengthen the position of tho Reform Government in the country than that tho Opposition's first act after reorganisation should be a renewal of the fight for the restoration of the vicious system of political patronage abolished by the Public Service Act of last year. It is obviously more to tho liking of Oppositionists that tlio control of the Public Servico by Commissioners should bo weakened than that the leasehold tenure should bo abolished and tho Arbitration Act strengthened by the passing of the Government's Bills now before Parliament."