PATRONAGE OF RAILWAY
"MANDATORY" CIRCULAR COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE [llY TELEGRAI'H —OWN CORRESPONDENT] WHANGAREI, Monday "A circular from the Prime Minister states that all Government departments must use the railways, and expenses must be computed accordingly, said Detective P. J. Nalder in the Whangarei Police Court to-day, when asking for £5 expenses for a witness who had come from Ngatea. Mr. It- K. Trimmer, counsel tor defendant, who had lost the action, said that by using the service car to Auckland and then travelling by boat to Whangarei, the expenses should have been only £3 15s. Mr. G. N. Morris, S.M. ( : You say you have definite instructions to use the railways even if a bus service is cheaper? ' Mr. Nalder: Yes, that is mandatory. Mr. Morris: It is unreasonable in the case of a person not living near a railway. The magistrate allowed £4.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22434, 2 June 1936, Page 10
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