PARLIAMENTRY NOTES.
RAILWAY FAKES. Mr Laiircnson has given notice to ask the Minister for Rjailways if Ik? will favourably consider an amendment in the settle of railway fares, which would enable married couples to travel at a fare and u-half, as is done, in certain other coil- tries, and whether ho will bo. in favour of allowing children up to three years of ago to travel free. PRIME SHE 10 1. Tho frtnnioi* still seems bent on advertising .New Zealand nvutton, but the sheep referred to in talblc No. Hi of the Financial Statement are surely such as no other country on the fatip of the earth could produce. Even prime Cante-bury would scarcely be in it with thorn. Tho eagle eye iof Mr Lewis has boon attracted by tlhem. and ho intends to ask the Colonial Treasurer— ( I ) Of what Imjod they arc ; (2) whether lye is perfectly certain that 233.322 of them weighed 14],°%,032tt), or 5301b apiece, and if so (3) whether it is with sheep of tlhis description that he proposes to supply his retail shops in London.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7777, 25 August 1903, Page 2
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181PARLIAMENTRY NOTES. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7777, 25 August 1903, Page 2
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