THE PORTFOLIO SHUFFLE.
Auckland has been so often bilked by the political dodge knovvn as the Portfolio Shuffle, that it is time she began to deduce a moral from it, if indeed there can be any moral in such a rank swindle. The root of the evil has been in the practice — a practice that continues to exist in few constitutionally governed colonies other than New Zealand, of pitchforking men into the Ministry who represented nobody but themselves and money-bags. The remedy is easy. Let no man be qualified to hold a Ministerial porfolio who cannot secure election, or re-election by some constituency.
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 161, 13 October 1883, Page 3
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103THE PORTFOLIO SHUFFLE. Observer, Volume 7, Issue 161, 13 October 1883, Page 3
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