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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3372, 11 November 1911, Page 4

In order to buy a halfpennyworth of yeast in Paris it is now necessary to show a certificate signed by the Octroi (town Customs} authorities. “liow many pensons have stock in more than one railway ?” writes Mr Ohiozza Money, M.P. “This question I have investigated. A well-known advertising agent, who makes a special thing of sending out company prospectuses. makes it liis ' business to collate the names of railway shareholders in order to eliminate duplicates. As a result lie found that only 180,000 .persons owned our railways. That is, a nation rf. .>,000,000 are charged high fares, and high freights; that are in many cases much worse for us than import duties would be, in order to make £47,000,,000 a year profit for 180,000 people, whereas the Germans make £60,000,000 of railway profit per annum, which goes into the various State treasuries and '■enables Germany to cut a great figure in the world. I may add that the 180,000 railway shareholders, together with some 500,000 in all, own nearly all the 1 land, and nearly all the capital of the United Kingdom.”