Mistaken Liberality
We notice, with some astonishment, that the Government have granted the English footballers Eree passes over the railways for one month. Most of our readers will remember that about the middle of April the Wellington papers announced the Government had refused to grant free passes on the railways to these visitors, and that the Government were generally applauded for discouraging the "dead head" system at a time when the colony can. so ill afford to indulge in extravagant hospitality to strangers. If the football team had come out on the invitation of Ministers, and could therefore be looked upon as the guests of the colony, we would not care a dump, and would even go so far as to give them board and lodging, gratis, combined with free drinks to their heart's content; but they are not our guests ; they have come out on a purely busiuess speculation, the whole consideration of which is profit, They will therefore look en their free railway passes as so much to the good, and chuckle in their sleeves a*, the softness of "the Department" at granting a request which would be looked upon as preposterous in the Old Country. It will be interesting to know whether the Weliing-ton-Manawatu Railway Company will be guilty of Buch folly.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 117, 3 May 1888, Page 2
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215Mistaken Liberality Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 117, 3 May 1888, Page 2
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