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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 234, 13 December 1888, Page 3

The Press concludes an article on the above as fol owe -As we have said before so we say again, this appointment is one of the most palpable, among all the many jobs, the Government have perpetrated, and it is particularly indefensible now. They have just, on the score of .conomy, turned adrift numbers of faithful Civil servants of irreproachable character ; and we could lay our hands now on four men with families, quite recently dism saed on the plea . f retrench m nt, who would have thought themselvea rich if they could have received between them the £BOO a year 1 visited on Mr Shannon. And where is this to end ’ If Mr Shannon is an expert, it is only in soft goods ; and if an expert is needed in soft goods, surely it is needed in other trades.. Are we to have a selection made of all the gentlemen in the different trades who h ive retired from business or whose husine-s has retired front them to form a Committee of Experts .-nd Detectives’ Why not? Has Mr Fergus no friendly d.uggist, Mr Mitchelshn no friendly hardware frien Mr Richardson no needy supporter knowing in hoots? Why not make up the Committee at once, give each £BOO a year, with a one hundred guinea fee. to start with so as to put the appointment on a eentlemanly footing ? Parliament is not sitting; let us turn off the poor clerks, shut up the offices, and put the Customs Department in the hands of these gentlemen at ease, who live in the calm retirement of country life. Was there ever a more absurd and indefensible job than this last job of Sir Harry Atkinson’s ?