The Star.
FBIDAY, DKOBMBEB 21, 1888.
Mb E. B. OABaiii, at Dunedin, has hit the light nail on the head, in speaking aboat the •liis of centralism. In this Colony it is virtually anarchy, tempered by telegrams. The Minister knows nothing; his permanent subordinates know everything. The Minister, away from them, is absolutely helpless. They deoide — we may say, for the sake of argument —to the bast of thoir ability and honesty, but they can only deoide on written reports. They mirjudge the oase, and deoide wrongly. Then, if the wrong ii very flagrant and glaring, a sort of indignation meeting is held in the looality affeoled, and telegrams from Mayors and local M.H.B.'s are rained down npon the Minister, Ihe poor man, bewildered and unhappy, generally yields or makes a compromise of some sort, and so the thing is alurred orer. for a time. But this sort of thing, going on year after year, is not government—it is, we repeat, anarchy, tempered by telegrams.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4880, 21 December 1883, Page 3
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