AN INCORRUPTIBLE OFFICIAL.
Some remarkable allegations were made before the Victorian Parliamentary Committee appointed on the question of the railway carriage lighting. One of the witnesses, in the course of his evidence, said he knew of a gentleman now in Melbourne who formerly had been a locomotive superintendent in New Zealand. The ropresentauve of a large firm called upon him. and obtained an order of some magnitude. Shortly after, one of the partners of the firm interviewed the gendeman in question, and handed him a cheque for £SO. The superintendent asked what it was for, and the partner replied, “Ob, never mind. Put it in your pocket.” (Laughter) When some lime afrerwards the locomotive superintendent paid a visit to the Uld Country, he was entertained by the same partner of the firm, who, in proposing his health, declared that Mr So-and-So was the only railway official he had met with in Australia who had refused a cheque under similar circumstances.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 November 1901, Page 3
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160AN INCORRUPTIBLE OFFICIAL. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 November 1901, Page 3
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