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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9718, 21 July 1917, Page 8

The Hon. J. T. Paul. M.L.C., ia formed an "Otago Daily Tames” repoater that ho was not impressed by >Sir Joseph. Ward’s reply in the House of Representatives to a question regarding the inconvenience caused by the lack of publicity given as regards the closing time of the mails. fair Joseph’s reply read: “It is at the direct request of the Admiralty, made in the interests of the oversea vessels of the British Empire, that information regarding the departure or mails is rigorously withheld from publication. I regret, therefore, that I cannot accode to the request. Mr Paul said that it was a rather remarkable thing, liowcveT, that in the Australian daily papers the closing time for overseas mails was plainly sot out in the post office notices, and they were told that the Admiralty demanded secrecy regarding the closing of the mails: but, surely, if the Australian public could be told when mails closed for New Zealand and elsewhere, the New Zealand public could bo safely told when mails closed foi Australia. “On the face of it, some fuller explanation should be given bj the authorities,'’ concluded Mr Paul. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6.’ Three salmon, of 32Jlb, 301 b, and 301 b, have been caught at Eingwocd and Bisterne, in Hampshire. It is not generally known that for a time the ex-Czar served in the Russian armv as a common soldier, A” marshal's baton has been fonnallj presented to Marshal Joffre by M. Poincare the French President. SNIFF UP, GARGLE OR SWALLOW OL