DISAPPOINTED GOVERNMENT SUPPORTERS.
(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.). TNVERCARGILL, May 2L About sixty residents met this afternoon to bid good-bye to Mr J. Spence, Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor of the Southland district for many years, who lias retired from the public service rather than take office in Westland, to which the Minister of Lands ordered him to remove. An address was presented to Mr Spence, who, in returning thanks, spoke with great warmth and vigor about the management of the department by the present A-inister, who come in for some hajrd knocks. Several speakers said that they had been disappointed in Mr McKenzie. It had been thjir desire to give the BaUance Government a fair honest trial, bnt their opinion had been changed by the action of the Minister of Lands, and if the same methods were practised in other districts they must tend to the collapse of the present Ministry,
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7870, 22 May 1891, Page 6
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