Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2. 1895.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1775, 2 October 1895, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2. 1895.

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The Parliament in which Sir Harry Atkinson sat last as a Minister represented the colony when it was in an economical mood After about three years of Sir Julius Vogel as Colonial Treasurer the electors had become tired of extravagance, and members were returned pledged to cut down the public expenditure. They faithfully carried out the wish of the voters. They reduced the Governor’s emolu - ments, the salaries of Ministers were cut down, and members sacrificed some of their own pay-:and reduced the of representatives by twenty.' It was also provided that after the reduction of members of the House of Kopresentatives there should not bo more than' six -paid J^finisters'. r The last two Parliaments have not been given to economy, have not raised the Governor’s- emoluments to their- old footing, but in other" ways they' have beendhvish. Members now; get more pay than they, ' ever did before, and by an evasion of law there is a seventh paid Minister. His appointment was done under colour of an old Act which provided that there might be a member of the Government representing the Native race. Mr Carroll said that as he only gots £SOO a year, perhaps he is not counted as on the same plane as the other Ministers.- In the Governor’s spoech at the opening of Parliament he was made to say• that in his opinion the time had come for increasing the number of his Ministers. He did not say how large the increase was to be, but if it were only one there would be.two more than , allowed by law at present. There is a great deal of talk about the extent to which Ministers are overworked,, .but at all events during, the'recbss if they are overworked it is because ’they are bad economists of thoir time. The country doos not grudge them the ser-. vices of whatever officers are necessary, and if people who keep dogs .will insist ou barking themselves they da not deserve pity; The Colonial Treasurer, of course* has a large private business to look after,'but even he finds timeto go to England, and both he and Mr McKenzie are said to be on t-hfi Colonial Board of Advice of the pew Produce Distributing Company. If the Ministers would keep to their proper duties, and would do somewhat less travelling they would find that during the greater part of the year they peed not overwork themselves.