"INCOMPETENT MINISTERS."

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 15, 18 July 1923, Page 5

"INCOMPETENT MINISTERS."

Thfe qualifications of ■Ministers''■'"wefi 1 -■"-• criticised in this House of Representatives '"'."' by. Mr. \V. A. Veitch- (Wanganui) last. ' ,-t.' night in chnrginji the Government with •'-. ■ kok o.f vision.in .failing.. t6 foresee the ; ■•■: trouble that had arisen in recent \e'ars in connection-with the Dominion's sugar supplies. There had.been conspicuous absence of. statesmanship, he -.cdntena;-' ''".' ed, and. he did not know how long.the __„;: Government -would occupy the .Treasuri? benches. .. . ; . ...'.• .-. . j ■'■..'.'." '.'.'. ".':'"-.':'.. A Minister:.'"Oh, years!" ..■.....:■:. .:;:.;•..„ _ "It is hard to make the people pc^ —'-' Jieve," said Mr. Veitch, "how very in : -:;: competent Ministers-are." Hfe went: b'n—'."„'". to say that they received prominence in.-■;"•■.' the Press by virtue of their position,' and>'-'-. 90 per cent, of the neWpapers adVfirtis'ed '!"':'. them. It only required a Aliiiister.Vjto ...,",. make_ a speech of a very ordinarjr sort■■■■"-.« for him to be reported acid ;his remarks ' "• -'-'. to be put into eood; English by'all:thfe'.'. ■.":'.;; Reform.newspapers.' (Laughter.) •••' '..-.■-. -- ■ "Yes," he said, "We can:'afford'''ti-vi-.i raise derisive lauchter at-the Ministers: '";'". '"-'X