THE Manawatu Times. WEDNESDAY, JAN, 28, 1880. MORE OFFICIAL BLUNDERING.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 111, 28 January 1880, Page 2

THE Manawatu Times.

WEDNESDAY, JAN, 28, 1880. MORE OFFICIAL BLUNDERING.

" WoriNnri" thing?, r.nd a drop of ink fn!!inß like dew i»ninn t" onpht. pr,-).'lnr« thnt which makes thousands, perhaps millions think."

Some few wepics ago it was publicly notified that Mr. VValtru Stmpsov. the iShfep Inspector for the Manawatn, hnd been transferred to Wellington, and from thence his duties m this district would be performed by Mr. R. >Simpson, the Inspector for Ka-nsjitikei. The announcement gave anything but satisfaction, and forthwith a movement was started by the pnrties most interested, the flockowners, to have the arrangement nullified. In the mean time, Mr. Walter Simpson", m obedience to the instructions received, removed to Wellington, only to iind that m a few days afterwards he was ordered to Gisborne. This second appointment, it was discovered, was m accordance with a new arrangement iv the working of the Department, by which it was decided that Sheep Inspectors should have a kind of roying commission, and be liable at nny moment to be transferred from one district to another. To this procedure Mr. W. Simpson objected, and as the arrangement was final, he took the only course open to him, and sent m his resignation. Settiug entirely aside the hardship entailed upon the officials referred to, m depriving them of any fixed place of abode, the idea is notable, only for its absurdity, and could certainly never have emanated from any person who had the slightest knowledge of what they were doing. With regard to the arrangement made npon the withdrawal of the Inspector from Mnr.awatu, let us see -what would be the result. The officer appointed for Rangitikei would have m liir charge all the sheep between the Wanghachu and the Manawatu Rivers at Foxton, a stretch of some sixty or seventy miles. Can it be for a moment i magi net! that with such a charge under his control he could conscientiously discharge the duties which have been allotted to him ? We feel that we are considerably within the mark when we say that m that range of country there are fully three hundred flockowners. and as time progresses their numbers would be be rapidly increased, and is it to be expected tliat one man will attend to such a charge and carry out efficiently the Herculean task which has been put upon him ? Certainly not. Suppose for instance, a fiockowner was anxious to remove his stock for sale, and communicated from Foxton, Moutoa or any of the runs m the South end of the country with the Inspector m

Bnngitikci. It is just possible that prior ongafijomonta would pr i vont him from leaving, and the applicant would ponsoqncntly be referred to the G-QVepnment. On receipt of the doc union t, the usual red. tape business would be pursued and more than likely before an Inspector had been told off to look after the case, the chance of sa c had passed away. We consider a grand mißtake was made when Mauawatu was deprived of its Inspector, and now that Mr. W- STArpsox is onco again free, we trust the Government will carpy out the £ n ncral ■sYishoss of the settlers, and by once more placing t'iat gentleman m the position he hitherto occupied, make the amend for what all will allow has been a most absurd chnnge.