Regarding the selection of Major Campbell as Returning Officer at the late Insurance Board election the Post says : — He is, in fact, an officer perfectly swathed in red tape, who&e only idea of the existence of a public is that it exists to provide means of support ing high-class officials who study dignity and deportment. Why the policy-holders were Eaddled with the no doubt considerable expense of securing the services of such a Presiding Officer we cannot imagine. A much more useful practical man could have been obtained at much less cost than the Clerk of Parliaments, and the election would then probably have been more satisfactorily conducted. Major Campbell's refusal to give the number of votes polled by the several candidates shows how greatly he mistook what the duties of a returniag officer are.
