TELEGRAPHIC MEMOS.
The Post says:—“ When a Minister says he has paid for all his ordinary tele' grams, a too - confiding public might accept the words as implying that he never used the wires without paying. They would he wrong. He would he speaking with a reservation as to the convenient memos. Of these, as we have said, no record is kept, but if, as we have before suggested, an enquiry into the working of the Telegraph Department were instituted, it would be found that the memo system has grown to very large proportions. Of course, no questions could be asked as to the contents or purport, but it could be ascertained approximately to what extent the practice is carried out, and the names of persons who are or have been authorised to send memos. The system is, we have every reason to believe, carried to a most scandalous extent. A Parliamentary Committee would probably be able to obtain some valuable evidence from Dr Lemon.”
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 121, 9 October 1895, Page 3
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