BALLANCE’S BOOT-LICKER AT WORK AGAIN.
We hear that two officials of the local branch of the Native Department, Messrs McKay, the interpreter, and Mr Hall, the clerk, have received notice from head quarters that their services will be dispensed with at the end of the month. This constant harassing of his subordinates is part and parcel of the iniquitous injustice shown by Mr Lewis, the Undersecretary for Native Affairs, to which we alluded in another article. Whoever may be elected to represent this district in the House, it is th be hoped that he will move for a commission of enquiry as to this man Lewis’ management of the department. We have strong reason to believe that the Department under his charge is nothing but a nest of infamous jobbery and corruption and that favoritism to his own friends and nauseous boot-licking of his patron Ballance are among the leading personal characteristics of Mr Lewis,
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 19, 26 July 1887, Page 2
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155BALLANCE’S BOOT-LICKER AT WORK AGAIN. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 19, 26 July 1887, Page 2
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