FORTY YEARS AGO

Evening Post, Issue 122, 26 May 1933, Page 6

FORTY YEARS AGO

• (To the Editor.) 1 Sir,—All of us who have known the Right Hon. William Ferguson Massey and the Eight Hon. Sir Francia Harry Dillon Bell at'all intimately will join with you in the warmest appreciationl of the public and private services of these two gentle-men-over long periods. . Every word you said of them in your paper the other day was justified,' and rather restrained than I magnified. \ \ ! ■ (But in your editorial you made allusions to "Ballance" arid "Seddon" which, I think, to put.it mildly, were superfluous. ■You said that "the seamy side of the Liberal regime began with the victoryJof. 'Balance' at the General Election of IS9Q,", and that "the. political farming of roads and bridges,'of appointments to the Public Service' and the' Legislative Council was an argument which the Opposition was never able- to meet witli any success in 'SeddoriV lifetime." The1 friends of Mr..Ballance and Mr. ! SeddQU might well retort that the Eight Hon. William Massey 'gave the country neither the elective Legislative Council he .had promised, nor the Public Works, nor the Public Service he • had held out to the electors. But don't you think it would be better to leave.such matters as these with the electors and the politicians of today rather than to load them upon the shoulders of the faithful.servants of the past who have gone.heiice?—l am, etc., • '•,'■■ ■•.--.■ s.s.