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REPUBLICAN COMEDY. PARTS, April 8. A comedy of burpaucracy has been disclosed. A tradesman whose taxes are' from GOOO to 7000 francs annually received a demand for 32 francs .11 centimes. He paid the 32 francs, and was then officially warned that unless lie paid the 11 centimes his furniture would he seized. To-day the authorities seized two tables, a sideboard, three chairs, and a gas radiator, selling them in order to recoup a halfpenny.— (A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 84, 9 April 1925, Page 5
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