The Archive · 1930

Publicity and the

People are beginning to complain that our Municipal Council is secretive. Such is the reward paid by the ungrateful to those who so pat-viatically sacrifice time, temper, taels, and toes to the Municipal ser-to the the department concerned.

The head of department is always most pleased to let the ratepayers into a knowledge of. everything of] which his department has cogn'sance, but then, you know, nothin: jean be given out except with the direct authorization of the Sesretfariat. And so one gets back to Brassett, missing only the publicity. loticer, and, hesitating to go round the circle again, one returns dole-folly and reports that neither the: tramway company nor the bus com. pany ever break any rules, that.

all a myth about a sardine dying of suffocation in one of their vehicles, and their conductors not reject one in every three 20- gent pieces, but only one in every charge?

Produced regularly once per week, it tells in some thirty-fir columns of the numbers of beans estimated to be eaten by convicts the Municipal Gaol during the ensi jing so much, and for which beaners Jor: would-bes are invited to tender.

Also, boots, Sikh, large, very: spectacles, sun, tinted according to rank: and so forth.

Also, does it not set forth:

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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