Members' Passes.
, A contemporary says : — lf the press tins to par on the irailways, let the Members of the Assembly pay also. It is ouv fault if ! they do not. We can see here'/ day after day, one of the richest men m .Naw Zealand use the railway for travelling almost as though it .were his own, free of cost, of course j and feel injured if lie cannot have a carriage to himself, When the Duke of ManChester or some other titled pwnejr of land comes here, he has a free pass for-, sooth given him to travel over ajl our line*, while the shipwrecked ninriner of a friendly Sfa c is prohibited from the like, privelege. Such is tine fjunkeyisrn of our Government. On pleasure, on business, to attend a court, to buy a. bullock, to meet a woman'; for all tfeese and other things may a member travel on our railways at the public cost ; and there is not a man m the Legislature who vrill lift his voice against the shame.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 121, 17 April 1884, Page 2
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175Members' Passes. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 121, 17 April 1884, Page 2
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