MR OKEY AND CIVIL SERVANTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 153, 24 November 1914, Page 3

MR OKEY AND CIVIL SERVANTS.

To the Ediaor, ■Sir, —I am very much afraid that Mr Okey, by reaßon of his long association with the Conservatives, has fallen into gome of their ways. But if he must talk "Reform" balderdash, why talk it on subjects with which we are so familiar? What nonsense for him to have disclosed at Fitzroy that it was only since the setting up of the Reform government that the children of workers had any chance of entering the Civil Service. He forgot the Royd Garlick appointment, Also those nice fat billets distributed at Samoa quite recently. Where did the poor man's son come in ? He must know, if he knows anything, of scores of cases of laborers and. small traders' sons and daughters entering the service and doing credit to it during the Liberal regime, More than this, it was the Liberal Government who gave our girls the right to sit for Civil Service examinations, a right which the "Reform" crowd have denied. If the rest of Mr Okey's speech is no more reliable than his remarks on the Civil Service then it does not count for much. —I am, etc., ■HENXJI.