THE STAMP DEPARTMENT.
All the cost of tlie-delay and the additional charges involved in the proposed change would fall on the solicitors’ clients and the general public. The Government’s scheme isj in fact,, a mere mockery of retrenchment. It would achieve a small saving in the cost of the public service by placing a much heavier expense on the shoulders of private persons. This is not retrenchment at all. The only retrenchment that counts is that economy in administration which actually saves the people’s pockets. It is no consolation to a man to hear that sixpence less is to be taken from him in taxation, if he is mulcted in five shillings for the services that the sixpence used to pay for —Christchurch "Press.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2570, 3 August 1909, Page 7
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124THE STAMP DEPARTMENT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2570, 3 August 1909, Page 7
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