GOVERNMENT JOBS.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 781, 25 February 1871, Page 2

GOVERNMENT JOBS.

The Wellington " Post" in reference to the creation of offices by the present Ministry, says :—" Let us now continue our list of useless and unnecessary offices created by the present Government, and unsuitable persons appointed to necessary offices. Ist. The appointment of Mr. Robert Pharazyn as Commissions of Confiscated Lands at £350 a year, an entirely unnecessary office. Inquisitive people wonder how it is that Mr. Pharazyn, being in the Civil Service, retains his seat in the Provincial Council. 2nd. The appointment of Major Heaphy, as Commissioner of Native Reserves at £6OO a year. The Government in 1869 introduced a bill to provide for the crea. tion of this office. This bill the Legislature rejected, yet before next session Major Heaphy, a member of the House, was appointed Commissioner, and it was not till long after the appointment was made, that the act authorising it was passed. 3rd. The appointment of a member of the House, Mr. John Williamson, as Commissioner of Waste Lands, whithout his being required to resign his seat. 4th The appointment of Mr, T. Macfarlane, auother member as Trustee in Bankruptcy. sth. The appointment of Mr. W. Fitzgerald as Seceretary to the Minister of Justice—a small job in the matter of salary. 6th. The appointment of Mr. J. G. Fox as accountant in the Defence Department at £350 a year, 7th. That of Mr, W. K. M'Lean, in the same department, as clerk, at £250 a year, these being permanent additions to the strength of a department in whicl the work should be daily decreasing, I what the Government tells us about tie state of the country be true. Bth, The appointment of Mr. Woon as Resident Magistrate, Upper Wanganui, at £358 a year. 9th. Mr. S. Locke's appoint ment in a similar capacity at Tuapo at year. 10th. The appointment of Topia as a kind of chief spy, at £2OoH a year. 11th. The appointment of Mtß N. Russell, lately a member of thefl Assembly, to the clerkship in the Nanm Office. We have mentioned elevemj culled at hazard, from the list offl 271 appointments in the Civil ServiJ made between the 30th June, 1869, anifi the 30th June, 1870 laid before tkeAfM sembly last year, and the list of uiosH appointments which have been madtH since and publicly announced. We dfi not wish to overwhelm our contemporaijH and when he has digested this batch wH shall be glad to supply another, IntkHJ meantime it may surprise people to knofl that on the first day of July, 1870,thesM were 1183 indivduals (exclusive ofrnffiH tary) drawing salaries from the coloniJß chest, and that during the previous yeJH appointments representing in salariJE £27,753 bs 8d per annum were madß by the Government. Of course thew were not all new appointments, but tin amount shows how very extensive is -jB. patronage exercised by New Zealaagj Governments." I,