The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1880.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 500, 26 June 1880, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1880.

The way in which the House and the Ministry are dealing with the report of the Civil Commission is simply sickening, They accept it as a whole, but reject it in detail. Take Oonyers for example. Is he to be dismissed because four honest and intelligent men declare that he is not only incompetent, but has also betrayed the interests of the Colony to further a private scheme 1 Oh, no! There must be rebutting evidence, and special enquiries, and Heaven knows what, before a single hair of his head be injured. And so on with the rest of the useless and incapable servants of the Colony. To get rid of one will be a work of time and magnitude, to get rid of a series a simple impossibility. The Minister for Public Works has declared that he will not remove Mr Conyers on the report of the Commission, which means that the Government which nominated it and called it into existence has not the courage to accept the responsibility of its own acts, If an employer of labor finds that he has unprofitable servants he dismisses them, and there is an end of it. The Government has found through its own Commission that it has unprofitable servants, and yet it dare not say to them, "Go I" This means that the Government is sacrificing the Colony to the Civil Service. The Ministry began with good intentions. When it selected hard-headed men like Mr Saunders andMrPharazyn to serve on, the Commission—men of unblemished honor and of recognised business capacity—it must have known it was applying a severe test to the Civil Service, and that the enquiry was not one of those wretched farces which so many Governments have played upon the public. The Government was in the Commission was in earnest, and had the Government not stayed its hand when the work was half done, the operation of reforming the Civil Service would have been successfully accomplished. In a cowardly manner Ministers have turned their backs on the Commissioners, and instead of, as was once asserted, the Commission being a buffer between the Colony and the Ministry,! tlie Government is the real buffer. Is it not now making itself a buffer between the Commissioners and the Civil Service? The Colony wiil not retain a . Cabinet of buffers, and if Ministers cannot take a more honorable and dignified position they had better resign. We owe much in New Zealand to the Hall Ministry, but if it has lost the courage of its convictions, and cowers to an angry Civil Service, it is time that other men came forward to cany out the wishes of the people. .