PARTYISM & EFFICIENCY

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1920, Page 8

PARTYISM & EFFICIENCY

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —"Young New ZealanderV letter in Friday's Post appeals to me. What a boon, it would be to the country if, Ministers, could settle down to put their policies into operation for a period of three years instead of being in fear of a "No confidence motion," on the slightest protest, putting them out of office before any tangible result of their administration became evident. If the efficiency of the party Government in other directions be reflected in the parsimonious expenditure of successive parties on education, it is high time we had a change. The blame in regard to education cannot be placed on the late Minister, who under two different party leaders has shown that he ■is fully alive to our national needs, and anxious and able to meet them —given the money. Because he could not prepare a balance-sheet showing a cash credit, appealing to the eye, neither party apparently wanted his platform for electioneering ■ purposes. Of what use ail this talk of business efficiency, if we do not provide the buildings and staff necessary to develop our greatest assetsyoung brains—to their highest efficiency concurrently with our children's moral and physical improvement.—l am, etc., REAL EFFICIENCY.

23rd February.

A stop-work" meeting of the Wellington Waterside Workers' Union was held this morning. It was decided ■to subsidise the Watersiders' Band over and above the public contributions made towards the proposed trip to the Dunedill contest.

An inquiry was to have been opened by Mr. W. G. Riddel!-, S.M.,.this morning into the circumstances surrounding the death of Edward M'Leod, who died' as a result of a motor accident on the Queens-drive late on Kriday night, last. As Mr. Biddell was, through indisposition, unable to attend, the inquest was adjourned until 4 o'clock this afternoon.

The annual conference of the New Zealand Furniture and Furnishing Trade Union of Employers will be opened in Wellington at 10 a.m. to-morrow. In the evening the delegates will be entertamed in Dustin's rooms, and on Thursday afternoon they will be taken for a motor drive.

A report was presented to the "stopwork meeting of the Wellington Waterside Workers' Union to-day by Mr. A. Parlane, to the effect that Mr. J. Roberts had beon re-elected secretary of the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation. The voting was as follows :—J. Roberts, 3205; R. Gould, 516; W. Murdoch, 440. Informal, 03.