OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 159, 23 February 1871, Page 5

OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.

The Wellington " Evening Post " continues its "' list of useless an 'l unnecessary offices created by the present Govenmant', and uusuitable persons appointed to necessary offices." Thus : " lafc, The appointment of Mr. Robert Pliarazyu as Commissioner of Confiscated Lands at £350 a year, an. entirely unnecessary office. Inquisitive people wonder how it is that Mr. Pharazyn, being iii tho Civil Service, retaines his seat in the Provincial Council. 2nd. The appointment o

Major Heaphy as Commissioner of Native Reserves ;it £600 a year. The Government in 1869 introduced a bill to provide for the creation of this office. This bill was rejected, yet before next sassion Major lleaphy, a member of the House, was appointed Commissioner, and it was not till lonjf after the appointment was made, that the act authorising it "was passed. 3rd. The appointment of a number of the House, Mr. John Williamson, as Commissioner of Lands, without his being required to resign his seat. 4th. The appointment of Mr. T. Macffarlane, another member, as Trustee in Bankruptcy. sth. The appointment of Mr. W. FitzGerald as Secretary to the Minister of Justice, a small job in the matter of salary. 6th. The appointment of Mr. J. (t. Fox as accountant in the Defence Department ;it £350 a yeir. 7th. That of Mr. \V. K. McLean, in the same department, as clerk at £250 a year, these being permanent additions to the strength of a department in which the work should be daily decreasing, if what the Government tells us about the state of the country be true. Bth. The appointment of Mr. Woon as Resident Magistrate, Upper Wan»anui, at £350 a year. 9th. Mr. S. Locke's appointment in a similar capacity at Taupo at £350 a year. 10th. The appointment of Topia as a kind of chief spy, at £200 a year. 11th. The appointment of Mr. isT. Russell, lately a member of tho Assembly, to a clerkship in the Native Office. We have mentioned eleven culled at hazard, from the list of 271 appointments in the Civil Service, made between the 30th June, 1870, laid before the Assembly last year, and the list of those appointments which have been made since and publicly announced."