THE RETRENCHMENT CRAZE.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 910, 16 May 1891, Page 3

THE RETRENCHMENT CRAZE.

The 'retrenching' of the present Ministry reminds the Feilding Star of some- • thing which happened m Auckland m the sixties, when there was a change of Ministry, A very high official jwas dismissed and the usnaf 'salary fpf j on" month given.- him. Ho was content, nnd' being a man of some private means commenced making arrangements ipv a trip to thfl r olfl?Conntry. In the m'eun time, the Minister found he had made r » mistake,: because none of ; the i new thontis (friends -of his, of course) knew anything 1 whatever of the work t6 be ■'-"< ':-dphej' n dr how' to"<onplete what was "• <o]Mrtfericed. .'■ The 'retrenched' mtiu; was r^en't' for m liaate By the Minister^ '^Vpout^ly told tliat the former servant . iofitne JHtafce wasat his hotel, and he would gludly make .n appointment if the Minister liked to call on him This iwas tiirninsr tiie-t.Hlilcfl'wjtlr.a vonofennce Hiut ultimately a.coui|ir'»niJße was etfecte 1 nnd for the t-onsid'-ration of £.!W, the 'reirt'nched' one covsehteil 10 postpone }ns trip to kngltinii a month and no back to work for tb t term. His salary before had be^n. at the rate of £500 -..a year. Vl'tue hnd its r» i warr. It w»s ti>« sa 'c ijpnik'inan who, «8 >» lieutenant m- the Ii JN., applied for commund of one of t)je g^ufil oate on the Waikato, ffo wtfhinty ik9Mi »»d hit phy^o

was not that of an Adonis, so .Mi 'ihomag Russell, who was tho Mm st j For Defence, said ' Well, you don't look like a J^aval Officer/ His interlocuicr calmly 'eyed over Mr Kussell, who had as few claims to be called a beamy, and said, 'Well, yoa don't look mucu like a Wai Minister.' Russell shipped him at once.