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TO THE EDITOR OP THE HAWSE'S BAY TIMES, Sir, —The Auckland correspondent of the Hawke's Bay Herald has given us a wrinkle in showing the example of criticising the private means of those returned as members of the General Assembly. My friends know A uckland very well—much better, I am inclined to think, than the Herald's " own," and from their information I learn that of the 11 members yet returned for that Province 5 are likely to support the Ministry, viz., Vogel, Williamson, Swanson, O'Rourke, and Creightcn; and of these five, four are, like myself, men of straw ; three are generally supposed to be subsisting solely on pay and perquisites as Government officials, viz., Vogel, Williamson, and O'Rourke ; and Creighton is on the look out, poor man. It is quite right that our 4,000 government officials, supported by a population " no greater than that of a third-rate English town," should bo represented at the Board of a Government Servants' Life Insurance Company; but I cannot see the justice of their pretending to represent constituencies in the New Zealand Parliament. An Elector.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 941, 11 February 1871, Page 2
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195Correspondence. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 941, 11 February 1871, Page 2
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