THE BIG BUILDING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5397, 15 July 1878, Page 2

THE BIG BUILDING.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sib, — Hardly a day passes that there is not in one or other of the daily papers some grave charge against some member of the Civil Service, The first case, occurring some da vs ago, alluded to a clerk having visited the buildings in a disgusting state of intoxication, and otherwise disgraced himself. How, the name of this individual is well known, not only to Ministers but also to the clerks in the service, and yet no official notice has been taken of the occurence other than the issue of a most unjust regulation affecting all the gentlemen employed in the buildings.

In yesterday’s issue of the Evening Post I noticed a paragraph relating to the abstraction of some papers from a Minister’s table, the contents of which have been made public. As it is pretty generally known that the same individual is again in this case the culprit, it is a subject of no small speculation and interest to the service generally whether this offence will pass so lightly as the last. The offender is a well-known, it not a much respected, member of society, whose’ efforts on behalf of the present Ministry in the capacity of a moucJiard last session obtained for him his present sinecure appointment, with uncommonly good pay. ' “ The gross instances of patronage ” by the former. Ministry were the subject of much comment on the part of those who are now in power ; but I must submit that the recent appointment of one or two men to Government “ billets ” is anything but pleasing to the old hands in the service, neither does it reflect much credit on 'those who exercise the patronage.—l enclose my. card, and am, &c., Kuhtra,