GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8036, 7 January 1905, Page 7

GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.

Their Name is Legion.

In dealing with the multiplicity of inspectors, the Hawke's Bay Herald says : — t There is an iaßpeotor who watches .your * premises at night to see that you do not work your employes over hours. He may see that your workrooms are not overcrowded or otherwise insanitary. If you have machinery, another gentleman is entitled to inspect your boiler and find fault with the arrangements of your workshop. Still another officer is entitled to examine your workmen and endeavour to protect you in some breach of award ia the matter of rates of pay or hours of work. And another inspector may call and ask you to produce your ledgers and disclose to him all the details of your business, in order to prove that you have been defrauding the revenue. If you are a shopkeeper, the case is as bad. A butcher, a baker, a dairyman, are all subject to the whims of one or other kind of inspector. A grocer was to have been harassed under a Bill, which was fortunasely crowded out of last session. A chemist is to disclose the composition of his nostrums. A publican is absolutely surrounded by inspectors, tumbling over one another in their anxiety to catch him tripping. And every shopkeeper has periodical visits from an official who wants to test his weights and scales. In the ■ffer country there are rabbit inspectors and stock inspectors, and noxious weeds inspectors, . and dairy inspectors, and a good many more |£. whose titles and duties happen to have J slipped our memories for the moment.