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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14894, 17 October 1918, Page 2

Applications are now being invited by the Health Department from women of not less than forty years of age to act as. health patrols in the chief centres.

A Now Zealand soldier now 'back on duty furlough, told a ''Dunedin "Star" reporter that before tho duty furlough wen left England General Richardson mformed them that they would have o fortnight ;in New Zer.kml for orery year of continuous -.sorvk'o. TJic men wore tiiorofojv f-urjjrisod. when tney were officially .infciruidd "in Auckland thai; . thoy would Jjovo only one months leave in Nr.iv Zealand.; further that those with tiu-oo years' or over Mould l.iave tlioir leave on full pay. out thos.:; with less than three years* service -would have tiio month's'leave v.-ithout pay. Perhaps the military authorities, in order to nliav a feeliiV' o r resentment which mifloubtefily' Gxtsts; ""'", l. aJ<:o the envhs^t opTiorumitV of explanung the actual posi'i'fon. "

Jir.C A. Wilk-inocn, M.P.. during a lio.JtK-al v.navo^ ; ,t 'bey; Plymouth, said that so tar as taxation was concerned,^ the i\cw Zsalr.jKi worker had not hnu any undue burden placed upon him as tho result-of the war. Vnrv iittta had been nxldpd bo ihn r^om,* I'oynstf.ncn, asrinst a it,:: «f M mi tea m iffiw Zoalnml--ihr-ro-V.-UK otic of Is in Groac Britain, in Kn-iand.ttK-ro was p henry tax on su K av. 'j'|, e ro was no iucreaptd tax m Sihy Zj':>!a?id on tobaccothere was a tax in Y.vAiw] G f g, >>A agamst 3s 6d in N,-,v Zva.hmd Men whostp incomes amounted to x>'(3o it Home paid income tax, v/horeariu'xN-ow Zealand a man was exonr.it unl"ss ho was receiving over £300. "

i An officer who was amongst the i«vatfc of soldiers wliich returned from : J^Sypv expressed himself as !> ro .<tly impressed by the fertility of 7 the ' Hi>d over which the New Zealand mounted troops are now fighting. As rsoon ■as they got oft the desert, he" said thoy Sbt into a rich, docolate-c<;!oiM-ed poil the fertility of which was manifested !.iv tho magnificent crops of nmizo wtiioh "t produced. The British military authorities were so impressed with it that they decided to put down 60.000 acrea oivthe conquered country near Gaza in wheat. -A competent staff'was appointed for the project, ploughs in lar-sre numbers were secured, and the work was well in hand when the officer referred to left for New Zealand