GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2632, 13 September 1882, Page 3

GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES.

To the Editor of the Globe.

Sib, —Your leading article of yesterday to a great extent has hit the mark anont Government and their employes, though I am aware that in one article no editor can embrace everything connected with Government and their employes. Some employes after a time become irritable, some lazy, some independent; some hold a very high opinion of themselves — so much so that they believe they are better men, scientifically and otherwise, than their Superintendent. This ought not to be. The worker has no right to judge. Sir, 1 am a shareholder in the public works of

New Zealand, and if I were a worker under cny man placed by tbo Government to superintend, in sailor parlance, “I would obey orders, if that order was the sinking of the ship. Then, sgain, on our public works there are abuses carried on by the foremen, or by whatever name they may be designated, that never get a fair hearing. Some men, placed in position when young and hmgbty, are never tired of hurling insult at the manipulator. Then, when the worm is trod on, he turns. The consequence is that he quietly gets his discharge ; or, in some oases, perhaps, the workman does not worship at the same shrine with his foreman. Well, sir, this is enough to raise the ire of right-think-ing people, whether agitators or not. Sometimes, though seldom, a few lines drop in the columns of the Press, and are heard acd remembered by, perhaps, the Premier himself. An enquiry is held in the following manner;—The Premier, on meeting Sir George, Sir Edward, Sir Samuel, or any other member of the Assembly, greets him after this fashion—Well, my dear boy, how faros the Pope.” The answer invariably is —“The Pope is infallible.” Yours, &c-> A SHAREHOLDER. Christchurch, September 13th, 1882.