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NZ Truth, Issue 183, 19 December 1908, Page 6

There is something m a name, as William Hastie will not be m a hurry to forget. Hastie, ol Dunedin, is appro- j priately an "express" driver, and on Monday he was charged with Tiaving driven at. an express ' rate of speed, m contravention to the borough by-l a ws. Hastie was m such a haste that he couldn't stop to walk round the corners, but rattled along very , hastily— at' seven miles an hour declared la' w-'n- ' order. Hastie was scornful arid indignant. His old prad couldn't do it iv the time, he declared ; there was nothing hasty about his moke. "He's a slow old horse and couldn't travel more than six miles an hour," declared Hastie ; "if the constable can make him do over six miles an hour I'll give him to him— he can, have him absolutely." But as the cop. hadn't time to train the prad for next New. Zealand Cup, be let the generous offer slide. And Hastie, for being* so darned hasty m his methods, had to ante up half a james and costs. 1 ' Christcnuroh has just been through the painful experience of the St. John Ambulance cadge, which is one of a huge variety of cadges, . religious and humane. Of course the object is a most deserving one, but the spectacle of women begs ging at street corners is degrading, and should 1 be suppressed by law. 'If the Society is necessary to the community (and it certainly is) it should be supported entirely ,by- the Government, which would impose ' a. tax upon the -people for that purpose. Then the burden' would fall upon the people, best able t>o bear it —the pernicious rich. At present the generous—and, therefore, poor I—people1 — people contribute to the funds of the Society and other cadging associations, while the wealthy person avoids the streets, or honk-honks through them on his motah. At Lyttelton,. "Ambulance Day" also happened to be pay day, and . persuasive women posted themselves at the pay-out offices and dragged from the unfortunate workers, the majority of whom are married, a portion of their screw, that had probably been mortgaged to buy necessaries during the week. • "Hospital Saturday," "Ambulance Day," and such abominations ought to be wiped out, and suitable provision made by legislative enactment .fon all public institutions.

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