GOVERNMENT DISCRIMINATION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11866, 27 February 1913, Page 4

GOVERNMENT DISCRIMINATION.

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to the Onmaru Mail.) Wellington,-February 26. Emphatic- complaint against the Reforni Government's news service. Jiv Tdiich certain Ministers favor/-."journals, of the right color, is voiced, to-dav bv the Times. "The Hon. \Y. F. StnsseV himself," it says,' "and several -of his •Ministers, notably the Hon. P. M. B. Fishpr. are scrupulous to. see- that every item of this rsffs is given exclusively to Government newsp-ape'.s. There are honorable exceptions to this wretched policy of discrimination, including the Hons.A. 1,. Herrtnim,' W. H. Herries, and W.-Frasjr. hut the chief offender is the Hon. W.fF. Massey, the man -whose perennial whir,e conreminrj; the'refusal of advertisements for the squatters' journal passed'muster as an honest nrotes.fc of principle. Every day a representative of this .journal wiits on Mr Massey. and every day lie is refused information' especially asked for, which is passed on to the squatters' organ. "This. is - a thine; thas Sir Joseph Ward never did in.'the matter of. public which .belongs to the people. Every newspaper, whatever its political convictions, was placed 011 an equal footing. In mentioning this matter we - are not complaining. We know pur .Massey ; we know chat lie can he smallminded ancl vindictive in these matters, and it is a fair--.thing; to contrast his .former professions with his present practice." : . :