The Railway DepartMENT.
A TVRAUJSIUAL REGIME.
We take the following from the Morning Herald ; — "We are not m Russia, nor living under a Russian Czar, but very strange things mayhap* pen nevertheless, says a contemporary. The Public Works Minister has sent an order round to all officials connected with'the working of the railways, to the (olio wing effect : — That an employe giving information to any person about the department, its working, or its affairs 'directly or indirectly/ will be liable to instant dismissal. This simply means that any officer maj be discharged without notice who has m any way ren« dered himself obnoxious, for the word ' indirectly ' is much too wide m its possible meaning, especially as its interpretation will rest with the Minister, or with — it is the same thing— the autocratic Maxwell" ■
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 36, 17 March 1883, Page 2
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134The Railway Depart-MENT. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 36, 17 March 1883, Page 2
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