March 3, 1902 (9th Parliament, 2nd Session)

It was shown that the postmaster at Wellington was in the habit at parliamentary elections of allowing the post office to be used practically as a committee room by his political friends, and also of permitting political posters of a partisan character to be hung up on the walls of the post office during elections, to the great annoyance of those patrons of the office not in political sympathy with him, and that he proved himself an energetic and offensive political partisan; and that his health was so poor as to not allow him to give proper personal attention to the affairs of the office. Under these circumstances he was relieved of the office. The information reached the Postmaster General from a source that is considered, beyond any question, reliable.