"And Still Another Job.”

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1761, 20 November 1885, Page 3

"And Still Another Job.”

The Evening P> st and New Zealand Times have been denouncing the Government for perpetrating a gross job in appointing a nephew of the Hon W. Reeves to a biiiet at £'Hn a viar. The Hon W. lieevcs is a supporter of t) e Government, and as ho is also one <. f ij.f. c ' ; proprietors of t'ao Lyttelton Times, his support is valuable. The hi.let to the nephew is the reward of that support. Of course the appointment is a job. The services of young Mr Walter Reeves were in no way heeded by the Government, and the billet was simply created so that he might draw the £i J t*o a year. Then the Government have lately been discharging scores of txpericer.ctd officers, so that any new appointment of an outsider is specially objectionable. Still, wo can hardly understand why the Post and Times should be so virtuously indignant at this particular job. They bavescen scores of othc jobs perpetrated quite as bad ns t!.;- .tnj never uttered any word of condemi.aiioa. For our part, we have got to think Hint in this colony every Ministry that has been in power during the iast twenty five years has "jobbed" all it could in the way of giving billets to supporters and the friends and connections of supporters. “ They ail do it.” Stafford did it. Fox did it. Hall did it. Atkinson did it. Vogel was great at it. And now the Stout-cumA ogel-cum-Enhance Ministry are just following the example of other Ministries. We suppose that this will always be the case and that jobbery and the corrupt exercise of political patronage will never be done away with till the coming of the millenium. Still, honest public vriters must go on protesting. They do some pood by their protests, because they frighten Ministers and cause them to " job ’■ a little less than they otherwise would. But that they will keep on "jobbing,” to a certain extent, whatever the newspapers may say, is a dead certainty.