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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 71, 25 March 1914, Page 7

tt hae been decided by the Petone Borough Council to set apart 22nd April as the date for the taking of the poll to borrow the sum of £9000 for the motor 'bus and foreshore improvement scheme*. The Wellington City Fire Brigade has had a busy time lately. Since Wednesday last it has received no less than eleven calls, eight of which were for actual fires. Its busiest day during the period in question was yesterday, when it was called out on four occasions. In one of these four instances the call proved to be a fake aJarm. Theft of a quantity of postage stamps, valued at 20s, was the nature of a charge preferred against a Postal employee, before Mr. D. G. A Cooper, S.M., to-day. The accused, a young man, 17 years of age, was employed as. a messenger at the Kilbirme Post Office. Chief-D«tec-tive Broberg said that the accused stole the stamps from the stampbook kept by the postmistress at Kilbirme. A number of thefts had occurred at the post office recently. The accused's parents were very respectable people, and he »would be punished by being discharged from the Service. The accused admitted the theft, and was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. In view of New Zealand's increased trade with the United States, and the prospects for a much larger quantity of our primary products going to the American market, it may be interesting to mention some of the more important articles included in the free list under the new American tariff, viz. : Wool, wheat, tallow, skins of all kinds (raw), hides of cattle (raw or uncured), hemp, eggs, fruit, any animal imported by a citizen of the United States specially for breeding purposes, meat of all kinds, potatoes (provided that they shall be subject to a duty of 1G per centum ad valorem when imported directly or indirectly from a country .which imposes a duty on such articles imported from the United States). _ A duty of 10 cents per bushel of 501 b is charged on apples, peaches, plums, and pears ; 2£ cents per 'lb'is charged on butter; on oats, 6 cents per bushel of 321 b; honey, 10 cents per gallon. Speaking to a reporter last night (state 3 the Christchurch correspondent of The Post/, Mr. H. G. Ell, M.P., expressed very grave concern for the preservation of New Zealand natural forest and scenic reserves. The present Administration, he said, was lifting the reservation from large areas, and throwing the land into the market. While he favoured a policy of land settlement, he contended that there was other land available — land probably better suited for settlement purposes "than were the forest and scenic reserves of the Dominion. During the last session of Parliament, Mr. Ell added, a return was asked for by Mr. J. Hanan showing the area of scenic and forest ''eserves and of reserves for the growth and proI duction of 'timber set aside by previous Governments which had been thrown ' open, or were about to be thrown open, for settlement. The return (C.1.J., 1913) showed that betweeft Ist August, 1912, and sth September, 1913, the reservations on the following areas were removed : Auckland, 17,159 acres ; Hawkes Bay, 352 ; Taranaki, 6518 : Wellington, 17,225; Nelson, 4430,- Marlborough, 7135, and Southland, 3130; total, 55,949.