MR. TRAVERS AND THE ATTORNEYGENERALSHIP.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4299, 31 December 1874, Page 3

MR. TRAVERS AND THE ATTORNEYGENERALSHIP.

- TO THE EOITOB. Sin —ln reference to your leading article of this morning. I beg to inform you that I made inquiries from several of the permanent heads of departments in the General Government service, and was distinctly informed by all of them, that Mr. Eeid, and not Mr. Prcndergast. was looked upon as holding the office of "Permanent Law Officer," mentioned in Sehedulo A to the Civil Service Act of 18C(i, Your announcement that the case is otherwise will, no doubt he looked upon as made “ by authority,” but I doubt whether Mr Prendergast would endorse the opinion you nave expressed on the subject. It is, to say the least of it, strange, that instead of using on expression, the words “Attorney-General’' were not inserted into the schedule in question. In conclusion 1 beg to say, that when I took time to consider Mr. V ogel st offer, it was with no such view as that which you suggest ; but it is, at all events, satisfactory, that the course X have taken has shown to the public the exact position which the Government expect the AttorneyGeneral of the colony to occupy.—l am, &c., Wm. Tiios. Locke Travers. Wellington, December 30. [Did it not occur to Mr. Travers, when consulting authorities, to go to the fountain head. If ho had done so, he would not have committed the palpable blunder he has done regarding the Attorney-General-ship.—Ed. K.J2.T.] '