25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 186, 4 May 1933, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

Closer Empire Friendship (From "The Dominion,” May 2. 1908.) ■Speaking at the Lord Mayor’s Easter banquet at the Mansion House, Mr. T. A. Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Wales, said one entente was very much neglected in Britain —namely, the establishment of close friendship between England and her colonies. England felt so sure of her colonies' goodwill that she thought nothing of them. He was glad to see signs of a decided change of feeling in the Old Country towards the colonies. * » * Nearly every place in New Zealand has a branch of the Government Post Office Savings Band where the savings can be put safely away for a rainy or perhaps sunny day. It. is not every branch of this important State institution which has the privilege of allowing clients to withdraw money with the same facility as to deposit it. Up till yesterday this advantage was denied Palmerston North, whose claims for withdrawals had to be forwarded to Wellington and returned duly checked before moneys were paid out. ♦ < ♦ Statements submitted to the Budget Committee of the Reichstag show that Germany must borrow'fifty million sterling within the next five years, even without fresh appropriations, in order to cover her annual deficits. ■ • • Strawberries grown by means of electricity are the latest dainty in Paris. The fruit is forced by electric currents. The strawberries are of excellent flavour, and of large size.