Keen Hunt For Revenue
“Is it not a bit strong?” asked Mr Field of the Minister of Railways, when calling his attention to a newspaper report tliat guards had searched the bags of school children and had charged them luggage rates if they found a loaf of bread or a pound of butter which the children Were carrying home. Tlio member also instanced the case of a bank flerk who was exoess-d a
bullion rates because be carried in a bag some silver and notes. The Minister of Railways argued m replv that it was quite sufficient to carry children to and from school free of charge, Mr Field; But why charge for a pound of hotter? , ' The Minister: The principle is the same whether it is a pound of butt r or a ton of cheese. II" promised .to look into complaints, though lie ill his fiiiii co ni pi if i tied of being catechised by members when they happened to see an interesting Press paragraph.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19220916.2.7
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1922, Page 1
Word count
Tapeke kupu
168Keen Hunt For Revenue Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1922, Page 1
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in