N.Z. TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, 10 July 1906, Page 3

N.Z. TELEGRAMS.

Per Press Association— By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. CHARGES AGAINST MR TREGEAR HON. HALL-JONES'S OPINION. WELLINGTON; July 9. ... The Premier, Hon Hall-Jones, has written to the Secretary of the Employ ers Federation ackaowledging the receipt of letter of 20th ult. asking that Mr Tregear should be removed from office as Secretary of Labor on account of the letter he had written to a friend in America, expressing certain socialistic views. The Premier in reply says that the letter referred to was a private one to a friend, and that it was not signed by Mr Tregear in his official capacity, and tht _the supposed copy' of the letter is riot a true copy, sentences written by Mr Tregetar having been omitted, and other sentences inserted. Hon Hall-Jones gives examples of this and. says that to wrest from a letter an attack on the New Zealand Employers Federation is perverse arid unwarranted. No accusa tion, concludes the Premier, or even inference, has hitherto reached the .Government that Mr. Tregear has failed in carrying out his official duties with discretion and impartality. I cannot concur, in -the principles you expound that the Gevernment.has a right to interfere with private expression of personal opinions held by its officers. Under the circumstances I do not consider it to be my duty to take the action you. suggest. " :