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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4747, 14 June 1894, Page 2

Wl/E f \ : the presont Government comes to (liOj a thousand Inspectors who liftvo been Invented and created bv its beiioficence will weep, and ;a thousand vu'trous settlers, lyhojiave been true to thoir party, and who naturally, look. forward to • become insppctoj's, and ..to, reeejyg jjjn annual stipend from the State will raoftW If the Oovwnwuot has done nothing

else, it lina called into existence a nobie army of inspector, and lias liot spared the public purse to maintain ; them,.. Every now arid Again suggestions are made for a new batch, and each 'suggestions are usually ; well received, because it is under- | stood that now-a-days a Minister cannot get up an appetite for . lunch till he has appointed an : Inspector, We notice that the 1 latest idea for recruiting the 1 ranks of Government pensioners, is a proposal from ourlocal contemporary [ to appoint a number of Inspectors to ; look after red spiders,'codlin moths, 1 and blue-tail flies, Insect pests are l'ifo iii many localities, partly because settlers are too lazy to destroy ) tliem, and partly because tlioy cannot 3 afford to employ skilled labour to do the work. Everybody knows how.to deal with insect pests; tho real diffii culty comes in when n man has to give time and troublo or to pay money to ! got rid of them. So it is au excellent idea to appoint Inspectors to do tho work, let tho Government tax the people of the Colony to maintain more incapables, In Masterton tho _ services of men who thoroughly understand the practical working of insecticides can be had for seven shillings a day. and this being the case, what on earth is tho uso of worrying tho Governmenttosendup , persons who probably don't undevI stand them, Tho red spider, the . codlin moth, and the blue-tail fly are '• a nuisance, but one that may be Ij borne with. Our prayor is that we e may be spared the greater plague—i, insecticido Inspectors,