POLITICAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 49, 15 July 1914, Page 3

POLITICAL NOTES.

PLAGUE OF DEPUTATIONS.

Ministers of the Crown, and especially the Prime Minister, are being scourged l>y a plague of deputations at present (says the Dominion). The ether evening Mr. Massey warned a party of people who had eome along lo pre-ent in person certain resolutions from a conference, all of which resolutions had appeared already, or would appear tinnext day, in the Tress, that they must make their speeches hrief, as that was the sixth deputation lie had received that day. On Saturday, when a formidable array of opponents of the Biblo-in-scliools proposals ranged themselves round his table. I*' informed them that be had found it necessary to put a time limit on deputations, as he had found they took up so much of his time, that he could not pet through his ordinary work. He proposed, therefore, to limit his rule rigidly, hut lie candidly expressthc deputation to half-an-hour. As it happened, however, ihe clid not enforce ed his satisfaction when the speakers had finished. It would appear that dcputiiliouists in future Who wish to keep in the good graces of Ministers would be well advised to make their remiirkt as' brief as possible.