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Nelson Evening Mail, 28 July 1916, Page 2

A Yorkshire Recorded' i,*as calculated that if each person saved a match a day 182,500,000 boxes would 'be saved in a year. Tllic Breslan's bombardment of the Crimean health resort of Eivpat-oria was don© 'under 'the Russian- colours. The 'damage done was very slight, and there were no casualties. A wG-man churchwarden or ;'Churchward ess," as the vicar said, has been appointed at- tho vestry of St. Mary's, Cowes. In view of the continual enlistment of men for actual service, a Press representative asked ?\lr W. T. Ward, Chief Postmaster, Christchurch. whether the Post Office was going to follow the lead ' of the Telegraph Department and'employ women extensively to take men's places, pointing out that in England and other places women: were now engaged.as mailsorters and postmen. Mr Ward stated that though women were being engaged for post office work, it "was only in departments to which they had been • admitted for some time. Iteturned soldiers were being taken on as mailsorters and p'ostmen, and rtiany had been so engaged . He did not think the occasion wouldi arise when women would be required for these departments. In any cases practically the whole of the eligible men in the Christ-church Post Office had already enlisted. "It is very humiliating to have to confess that at the present time choice dessert apples are unobtainable, and that agents here do not know where they aie going to secure further supplies,'' said a Dunedin agent to an Ota-go Daily Times reporter on Friday. Orders from Tlobart have not come forward owing to shippers there having failed to secure the necessary certificates stating that their fruit is clean. Touching on the -Australian markets, a Dunedin fruitseller who has just returned from a visit, to the other side, says that at Helens ville he saw apples hanging from the trees just like ropes of onions. Best Jonathans could be purchased in the first-class shops in Melbourne at 2d per lb, and from 'barrows 2!b of choice pears and 21b of choyj? Jonathans could | bo bought for fcd. The visitor could j have purchased 1000 cases of Jonathans } in Melbourne at la 9d ;i case. In strik- j ing contradistinction to these prices, he j found on arriving in Sydney that Jona- ' thans were selling there at Is 6d a dozen. ;

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