A DEPUTATION.
SHOUT, BUT SWELiT. •'(laud-day, gentlemen! 1 just came to speak to you about a letter 1 tawive.i from your clerk.' The speaker was a backblocks settler, who appealed sudd illy at the meeting of the Taranaki Couriy Council yesterday to voisc a grievance. It took him exactly three uiim:fes to do so.
"I have received this IcJler," he c.ou liuind, "asking me to pay £1 lis Sid for heavv trall'ic license for eoulraet carting villi a dray on my road. It's ridiculous on a track like that. It doesn't worn me if it's never put in order. The clerk didn't dale his letter auyyear. It n:iglit be written noiv, or ten years ago. That's all, gentlemen; thank you. Cood-bye!" lie was gone, and the Council sought a breathing-space to consider the purport of his ■ threeminv.lc, one-man deputation. Soaie discussion then took place, som.' councillors expressing the opinion that as (lie road was bad, and little used, no f.'.i shoud be exacted, others stating that Ihis would create a bad precedent. Eventually the matter was left to the chairman.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 184, 3 February 1914, Page 3
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180A DEPUTATION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 184, 3 February 1914, Page 3
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