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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19903, 24 September 1926, Page 9

When the Wanganui City Council recently decided to post bus and tramway time-tables on the wall of the Post Office it did not imagine that a mass of red tape and formality would at once be encountered (says the Wanganui Chronicle). But it was soon found th; 4 all the ponderous machinery of State has to be set in motion before a nail can be driven in the sacred wall of a post office. The local postmaster had absolutely no power I grant he city's request for permission to screw timetable box on to the wall, and as f he most extravagant formalities were found to be necessary it was decided i'..at project should be abandoned instead of touching the Post Office wall, the Tramway Department is now going to place its time-table in an illuminated box on an iron standard rising from the kerb near the corner, '•