THE "CONTINUOUS MINISTRY."
Referring to tue tact that the present Government has earned the title of the "Continuous Ministry," the Hawke's Bay Herald says:— "There are certain obvious drawbacks to such a long term of office. It is. bad for the Ministers themselves. They begin to regard themselves as indispensable; a» having a kind of prescriptive right to be there. And they come to consider that they are the rulers instead of the servants of the public; to resent criticism, and to threaten all kinds of pains and penalties to their opponents. We have plenty of examples of the sort, of thing we refer to in the conduct of Ministers .recently. When Mr R. MeKenzie, for example, told the Taranaki members in the House recently that their district could not expect better treatment as long as it sent Opposition representatives to Parliament, we can only conclude that Mr McKenzie had become inoculated 'with the pleasant delusion that it was for liim to command and the people to obey."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10464, 31 October 1911, Page 4
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168THE "CONTINUOUS MINISTRY." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10464, 31 October 1911, Page 4
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