A New Dodge.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1647, 1 March 1886, Page 4

A New Dodge.

. Writes " Pyelop "in the Mataura \ Ensign,;. : — v Quite a breeze) lias occurred in tliat erstwhile In ppy the Otago Education Board. Oneqf the members has discovered ihat s tlfe other fellows have stolen a march on him iu the way of securing theirj reelection. .If. appears ...-that the secrelias been complaisant enough to allow tfrcuiariFttSkirig' for the* votes of 'committees to go out with other official .documents. These circujars have, been J thua eriddrsedLWitlr^ajsemi-offlQial iin pof tance, and, what has no doubt been a have' been probably tree from postage, being under the /manual of th^^Boai'4 ? s officer fduly authorised to franlc letters. finch attention to small-details is ci editable alike to the ingenuity of the mcinbers and; the good nature of, j»he secretary, but the other fellow not so favored, could not see it and the pot boiled ..over; ; One gentleman \iij his wrath said the practice liad prevailed for the last fourteen years. No doubt he was, considered sat upon when he was told that the present Act had only been in force nine, but he was right for all that. It was quite as easy under, the old system to invest a touting circularv witlitthe quasi authoi ity of the Department. But the recent influx : of light has shown many cjbwebs in the corners. • ■ | .