MAKING THINGS PAY.
JV3[»ssey,. Government)- -fe-e-vident-ly out to make things pay. A small farmer in the' neighbourhood of Masterton desired permission to erect a stile, so that he might cross the railway to attend his horses. ' The i Department has informed him 'that''it has no objection to his ing v the stile, provided that he pays 10s for the annual right to do so, 4nd £1 for a legal document conferring the right upon him. We trust that this is not to be accepted as a precedent of the Reform style of transacting business. A Department which ■would charge for the right to cross the permanent way, would impose a fee for the consumption of Departmental smoke inhaled by passengers while passing through railway tunnels!
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10717, 30 October 1912, Page 4
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125MAKING THINGS PAY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10717, 30 October 1912, Page 4
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