The product of a twopenny rate from the county councils is £28,000, and with miscellaneous receipts of approximately f 6,0o0 the total is £65,000.
Today the penny machine, in virtue and in truth, is really the twopenny machine.
To-day we have not only the original shilling pool, but sixpenny pools, twopenny pools, penny pools and even the halfpenny pool.
It would be a twopenny-halfpenny place, with merely a jetty of some character, which would not have a statutory backing.
Civil servants and others, too, often tend to think in terms of a twopenny tram ride to the nearest hospital in the city.
It uses these twopenny-halfpenny exercises in order to raise money.
Some of the schemes to be carried out may cost more than a twopenny rate.
Do not take their pennies and twopennies from them.
