PRIVATE OR PUBLIC INQUIRY

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 54, 6 March 1922, Page 3

PRIVATE OR PUBLIC INQUIRY

TO Til IDITOK.

Sir,—Some time ago, ,a teacher . published a letter which' the Minister of: Education declared to contain grossly improper, reflections oh the Government, and criticisms on himself and his Department. This was •■■.considered.,to be | very serious ' insubordination, and the Minister has expressed Very sfcronj? condemnation of the Wellington board because the inquiry it conducted on Miss Park's case was held in private. , Now Dr. M'Kibbin, an officer of the Public Health service,, has published a letter containing' a much more direct attack on Mr. Parr as Minister of Public Health than Miss Park made on Mr. Parr as Minister of Education. The .matter is also more than one of mere dis- 1 .cipline, as it concerns the public safety from plague infection. Naturally the public looks to Mr. Parr to see that the inquiry into Dr. M'Kibbin's published statement is held in public, and that the evidence taken shall not be repressed or withheld in the manner condemned by Mr. Parr in the ' case of the Wellington Education Board. We' wait expectantly to see whether the Minister of Public Health holds the same views as the Minister of Education. — I am, etc., . ■"-■• «SAME SAUCE. 4th March. • ' m ..