CIVIL SERVANTS AND POLITICS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2198, 30 September 1907, Page 1

C IVIL SERVANTS AND POLITICS

mr McCullough’s suspension A NEW DEVELOPMENT. (Special to Timeß.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 23. Interesting developments are likely in connection with the McCullough case..'/ Mr. Barclay in likely to bring it up in the House on Wednesday, which ho can do if he gives notice on Tuesday of a Bill regarding Civil Service reform or. seme kindred sub- : ject. It will not* bo necessary for him to have any Bill at all, but by this means he will be able to get a speech delivered. y Mr. Barclay,, who lias been looking airefully into tho matter, contends that Mr; McCullough has"' boon wrongfully .suspended. Ho points outi-that in the*■ railway regulations .referred to by Sir Joseph AVa rd (gazetted in 1S81) there is absolutely no reference to interference in politics. Indeed, there appears to bo no regulation bearing on tho subject gazetted .till April, 1907, ,but in those regulations men- working in tho milway workshops appear to be specially exempted. Mr. Barclay, therefore, asserts that. Air. McCullough has been, illegally SuspgJided. " 'The'’ discussion on the subject which is likely to ensue on Wednesday' should be of considerable interest.