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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 169, 10 April 1908, Page 8

A member of a firm of .building contractors stated in course of conversation with an "Otago Daily Times" reportci'that tho multiplicity of inspections-' aiid necessity of/ permits which Dunediri builders ,wero subjected to at-, the"nresqiit : !tim6 - were matters of .common complaint;' . A contractor was • favoured with visits from., an inspector of > factories, an .inspector of awaficls, ; iii:--.iu- . pqctdr of niachineryj l ,md' ail ijispcdor/i'of " scaffolding, ; Then permits , ; hatl'to-.b'o ob? taiiied for all manner, of! things. " The. plao-... ing of a ladder or' trcstlo on. a' footway," or, in fact., any Encroachment at all, iio mfttter how trifling, meant tlio ohtailiiiig oif. ;V por--mjt and a payment in each instance. All these, oncroacnmcnts liajr -non" to lie provided for by builder's, and the natural. result., was. that-thcy tenied to make/buildings dearer.'- . ■ , • . ■ '.'.Wo are no lon^o.r-the roisily beJlicosc people of former.times. . No miltUty.lover agitates French opinion. - . ThisYV wisdom in-, deed.—"lvappel." Paris. V Motorist (in witness box)"Tho . police swear that tho oar,was fil ing at' sixty, miles " an-hour, do they? Why, the old car couldn't touch twenty on her top speed." Magistrate ■ (who. sold car to defendant) : "What .nonsense, man! Why, I've -ofton got fifty 'out,, of her with a—h'm—l mean—yes, I'm afntyti you must pay £s."—'-'Bystander." • '