THE LATE PREMIER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 146, 21 June 1906, Page 4

THE LATE PREMIER.

+ SOME SUGGESTIONS. "L.D., late of Charleston, West Coast'," writes submitting that if Captain Seddon or Mr. T. Seddon consented to stund for their father's seat no manin New Zealand would defeat either of them. The correspondent urges that one of the Seddons should be given a portfolio in the new Ministry. A couple of correspondents state that the Government Printing Office continued working while business in other , public offices was suspended in ' consequence of Mr. -Seddon's death. One writer contends that the printing office had no special work, apart from the printing of a littla mourning paper, to keep it open. ! Another declares- that the printing office seldom closes when other offices do so. j " Why they make fish of one and flesh of the other is more than I can tell," he concludes. * A. letter, to the editor sets out a scheme for a Seddon memorial. The writer urges that a biography of the late Premier should be published at, "say, 10s a copy for a cheap edition and £1 for a better-bound volume." The writer believes that 1,000,000 copies could be placed in Australasia, and the proceeds cgjild be devoted to the establishment of " a first-class technological school and works, the former to be free to all native-born Australasians, every certificated approved graduate to have the right of employment in the works for a period of years^ according to conduct and competency. These works would be self-supporting, and the profits would pay for the upkeep of the school or institute." " I believe," the writer adds, "that if this scheme were thoroughly carried out there need bo no such thing in the future as either an unemployed or an indigent person in these fair colonies, or for that matter the whole thing might be made to apply to New Zealand and New Zealanders only."