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Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14345, 25 October 1910, Page 7

Mr. J. H. Sellers, of Hawera, secured four first prizes with pigs and two championships at the Hastings Show.

The Egmont A. and P. Association has decided to Invite his Excellency Lord Islington to attend, its forthcoming show. What measure of reward a public servant should receive lor an invention or suggestion that is of value to Ids department is an interesting question to those in the public service who see further, than thuir office tables (says the -Melbourne Argus). Sometimes the return that an ollicer obtains lor the brains and energy employed is ridiculously inadequate. An officer in the postal service made a suggestion that, when it was adopted, so revolutionised the methods ol letter - sorting and lessoned the labour necessary that the department was able to effect a saving oi £()0 a week. This was six years ago, but, although the department has been ..able to economise to the extent of over £3OOO a year, the man who suggested the improvement has only just received his reward. And the recognition made by admiring official heads was £sl Leading Chinese aro strongly opposed to the Commonwealth Immigration Restriction Act. Mr. W. Yinson Leo made this clear at a gathering in Sydney. “The day will come,” he said, “when Australia has a bettor understanding of the Chinese people. Tho average Australian thinks that the local Chinese gardener is a general type of Chinaman, but when a few of China’s multimillionaires, merchant princes, and hotter class Chinese, 'with their wives and families, vifdt -Australia, it should alter the impression. At present they will not come here, as they consider it undignified to submit to tho humiliating Immigration Restriction Act. Annually, hundreds of them tour Europe and America, and there is a specially organised Cook's tour catering for them. Your commercial agents in the East cost thousands and thousands of pounds yearly, but they are practically doing nothing in China, and they are practically unknown. It is in tho hands of the Australian people to alter her policy of shutting out the refined and bettor classes of Chinese',"and when that is done Australia’s trade will increase by leaps and bounds, and it will load to a hotter understanding of each other.” We don’t believe there’s a man within trading distance of Now Plymouth whom we cannot satisfy in neckwear. Exclusiveness in ties is one of our pet hobbies, and oven a glance at our splendid stool; show why wo aro tho acknowledged leaders of fashion in ties. Seo our windows daily at Tho Rash.’