Every Speaker oi' the House of Commons, on retiring, is raised to the peerage, and presented 'with a pension of £4OOO per annum. The cost of the carriage of mails over the railways of the United Kingdom amounts .to about lid pet ■bag,
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 942, 15 July 1903, Page 2
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43Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 942, 15 July 1903, Page 2
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