“For Your Information.”

Red tape was distinctly absent from the treatment accorded to a written reproof for smoking on duty sent to a subordinate by a recently-promoted officer in the old railway days, referred to reminiscently at the recent Railway Officers’ Reunion by the Hon. S. G. Smith. Met some days afterwards by the officer, the delinquent was sternly asked if he had the letter. “No,” he replied. “I sent it to your brother Bill in Dunedin to let him see how fast you were getting on.”

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