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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1840, 4 June 1886, Page 3

A certain M.H.R , who (says the Tuapeka Times) is in a habit of travelling pretty regularly on a certain Otago railway, somehow—no doubt through his officiousness - got at loggerheads with the guard. The guard, by way of exercising his authority, insisted upon the hon traveller showing his pass every time be travelled over the line. The latter got somewhat weary of eternally displaying bis railway medal, and one day when tbe carriage was pretty fuU he felt rather annoyed that the guard should insist upon him showing his ticket like an ordinary traveller. •* My face is my ticket, sir,” he replied ‘'Then,’' quietly exciaimed the guard, " I have strict instructions to punch ail ickets.”

Through a typographical error in the account of the late soiree proceeds, the figures in the expenses read wrong ; they should be as follows : -Band £3, hire of ball £2 os, attendance £l, sundry expenses 11s lOd, lemonade, <te. £1 3s fid, printing £ll9s fid, total expenses £9 18s JlOd, balance in band X81913d,

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