OFFICIALISM AT SYDNEY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 306, 30 November 1906, Page 4

OFFICIALISM AT SYDNEY.

____^____. X AN "' EXPEDITING " FEE. ' SYDNEY, Thursday. An interest-imp cuso has occurred, in which a firini. found it necessary, to pay an agent £080 to sacure a speedy adjustment of the' Customs dispute,., a-nd this called forth tho sovero stricture I'rora the Chfof Justice, who said it was a slranga thing that it' shouyd be -necessary to pay large fees to push business! along in a Government office. Thero must be serjous •defects in the legislation which permitted 'it. A FALLEN TROOPERS' ME- ' MOHIAL, DUNEDIN. Thursda v. A liieiiiui-Lu.l-to those, members of the'Otago Conting-enls who lost their lives during Iho'Boer war in South Africa was unveiled this morning. Tho 'memorial has been erected at the entrance to th<_ Southern ritsscrvu, l^Ufi- known, at the Oval. There'was a large attendance of tho public and over 50-. : members of tho various 'contingents were'present. Tho time was unsuitable for many volunteers to. attend, but tHfe school cadets made a- .fine display, 'and tho bluejackets of H.M.S. Pioneer paraded. Tho monument, which consists of a fino column, on top of ■Hvh-ich, in marble, ; is ' -a full-size figure of a soldier watching over the body of a fallen comrade, was unveiled by his Excellency'the Governor, who referred, to the necessity for inculcating pa-' triotism and encouraging and sup--1 I i ; I '

parting the splettdid Valunteel's and feadets wh6 liad made a name for titemgelves all over the world. Tlio itev; D. Brifcton, who was Chapiaiti bf brie bf the ' -bbtt^rftgients; BfKrdcl ptayel l ; &het whicii thb H6d. tlio Ptemlei- spbke briefly', referting t6 tjie testimony, 'given by' pHtisJ commanders to tlie fiiie work ,of i^ho New Zealanders. The 'Premter having haridod ovei- the monument to the City Council, the 'Mayor returned thanks and the prodcoeding's closed..