PERSONAL.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Allow me to thank you for the personal courtesy with which you have referred to me in connection with the question of Ministers drawn from and reverting to the Civil Service. In addition to the instances which you mention to-day, as preceding mine, of civil offices having beenheld by Ministers before, during, and after their tenure of political office, there are the cases of Sir I<\ D. Bell, Dr. Pollen, and Mr. Fitzherbert. No voice was ever raised, so far as I am aware, against any one of these precedents. ''■■'. The question which I had to determine, when the Fox Ministry resigned, was whether I could afford, in the then existing state of the law, to forfeit absolutely the claims to pension accruing from twenty-five years' service. I frankly own that I could not afford to make such a sacrifice. —I am, &c, W. Gisborne. Wellington, November 19.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4265, 20 November 1874, Page 2
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