VALUE OF A VOTE
“GRAFT" IN THE SOUTH
SOME STRONG REMARKS BY LOCAL OFFICIALS. PBESS ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN, August 2. A strange story has gamed currency here concerning an alleged practice in Dunedin of what is described in the United States as “ graft.” Some little time ago, incidental to changes in the system of administration, an official of an important local body retired from the position he had been occupying, and the local body decided to vote him on retirement a bonus equal to six months’ salary. It appears that one member of the body concerned remarked to the official that his vote was worth a new suit co him. This remark was treated os a joke, but the official got a shock when he received an account for £S, being the cost of a suit supplied to the member. i The members of the local body have been expressing their feelings very strongly, but the person implicated is no longer associated with them on this particular body. He is, however, connected. with the administration of other locaL insti^tions.-
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7869, 3 August 1911, Page 6
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178VALUE OF A VOTE New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7869, 3 August 1911, Page 6
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