CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9581, 4 August 1894, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

AUTOMATIC VOTING. TO THE EDITOR. " —The local Ministerial confidential organ explains that the proposed i increase of salary to some highly-paid officials i 3 merely, automatic. This assurance is so consoling >-<" that farmers should now pay their laud tax - four mouths' before due date, without a murmur. This idea of automatic action sheds . light upon the Sergeaut-at-Arms job. The Ministry would not admit that they appoin- _ Afi ted Colonel Fraser, and as there is no other appointing authority, his taking the " office *■ -' must have been automatic, and . those . who , upheld the evasion of the law voted auto- •, | matically, and so are to be pitied. Some,. like Cromwell, would say, " Take away that - Bauble," but the party under' the Government whip retain the weapon which is supposed to represent dignity, and power to ; A maintain law. I herewith suggest a plan by ; which they could retain the mace, clear their consciences, allow all the moral effect of she •' instrument free course, and do this auto- > matically, saving £300 per annum. '. My ' method is to fix a balance to the Speaker's i |p chair and to the mace, so arranged that by taking his seat he brings the article to view, and on his leaving it sinks from sight. < This 3* would so identify the Speaker and the mace, no intervening person being needed, that the 'i moral effect would be increased, and possibly ; influence for good all within sight of this V sacred thing. —1 am, etc., Edwin Cars. ' ,