An Auckland View of Mr. Oliver's Appointment.

Evening Post, Volume XXVI, Issue 75, 26 September 1883, Page 2

An Auckland View of Mr. Oliver's Appointment.

|Bt Teleobaph.l (From our Own Correspondent.) Auckland, Tins Day. The Evening Star, in a strong article denouncing the appointment of Mr. Olive, to the vacancy cans ed by Mr. Whitakor'B resignation, says that the announcement, which practically disfranchises a district representing two-thirds of the North Island, will cause indignation and amazement in every section of the community. It says — "The question is one that admits of neither explanation nor parleying. Mr. Oliver's appointment fills the only vacancy in the Cabinet, and no fnrther appointment can be made unless Bomo of the present members choose to retire. The new Minister has taken the place vacated by Mr. Whitaker, and that 6eat belonged to Auckland. Let the Ministry, therefore, hark back or accept the united opposition of every Auckland member. Truly this is a pretty ending of the famous compact of the ' Auckland four,' which was guaranteed to secure two Auckland portfolios in the Ministry and other nntold advantages. At a moment when the whole future of the North is in jeopardy — when the bulk of our lands may be shut up at the bidding of a Minister — whon the route of the North Island trunk railway is to be settled, we find ourselves left without a single voice in a Cabinet dominated by Wellington inflnenco. The _ situation is one of profound gravity, and if over the nnited and determined action of the people was called for it is called for now. A little breathing spaco should perhaps be allowed to afford our representatives time to decide upon their course of action and take the lead in the impending crusade, and then in Newton, in City North, in Waitemata, in our Chamber of Commerce, and through every recognised avenue of public opinion the people of Auckland must make their voices heard. The business of the electors with their representatives is of the most simple kind— they must have this wrong righted or give place to men who will. We do not believe there is one elector in Newton, in City North, or in Waitemata who will listen to a member who does not first of all emphatically declare his determination to use every means at his disposal to eject from office a Government which has shut Auckland out of the councils of the colony. There should be no temporising or equivocation. All that the electors have to demand of their representatives is summed up in half-a-dozen words — 'Got Auckland fairly represented or resign.' We believe this cry will rinjj at mass meetings from one end of the provinco to the other. The Ministry have by their conduct put their Auckland followers in a position which can only bo understood on the theory that they have a poor estimate of their intelligence and independence We do not understand what their reasons may be for calculating on such willing subserviency, but wo mistake the men and still more mistake their constituencies if they are not speedily undeceived."