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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144783, 13 September 1915, Page 2

When Italy declared war on Germany the Belgians all appeared with the Italian hag as .a decoration. General von Biasing, the Governor of Belgium, promptly forbade the display of Italian flags. The Belgians obeyed, but wore pieces of macaroni instead. The general then retired from the contest. People who wish to send tobacco or cigarettes to the men at the front can now do so on exceptionally good terms, the Government having decided to alj low them to bo sent duty free. A par- | cel of 1000 cigarettes costs, including postage, £1 la 9d, and Mr. J. Avery undertakes to supply them at this rate and attend to tho dispatching . The liner Rotorua, which left Wellington on Thursday afternoon for London, took the following dairy produce: —Cheese: From New Plymouth, 313 ( orates; from Patea, 2029; from Wellington, 253: total, 2595 crates. Butter: From New Plymouth, 2023 boxes: Patea, 1712; Wanganui, 103; Wellington, 1120; total, 4958 boxes. During the June quarter of the present year the number' of depositors m tho Post Office Savings Bank was 498,786, as compared with 473,452 for tho June quarter of 1914; the total amount of the deposits was £3,475,690, as against £3,264,283; the total amount of withdrawals Was £2,683,259, as against £2,869,301; and the excess of deposits over withdrawals £792,431, instead of £394,982. To-morrow, at 2.30 p.m., Messrs. Webster Bros, will sell a quantity of fruit and vegetaMes,. as advertised.

Mr. Newton King received a cable from his Glasgow dairy produce principals, Messrs, it. and W. Davidson, this morning recommending immediate consignments of dairy produce, extreme prices being anticipated. Danish butter is now quoted at 1725, with a rising market; cheese 78s, firm. A Gazette Extraordinary was issued on Saturday removing the embargo on the export of butter and potatoes from New Zealand,- The new- season’s butter is now largely augmenting the supply, and it has - been deemed advisable to permit of the exportation. The Australian embargo has already been removed. and butter is being exported from there. On Wednesday, at the Brougham Street Hall, Webster Bros, will sell a well-selected lot of house furniture and effects, the property of Mr. Ham, who is leaving New Plymouth shortly. A considerable portion of tho furniture is of English oak, it is modern in design, and has had very little use, and as everything is for sale without reserve some good bargains should be obtained. A Now Zealand officer, writing from tho firing line at Gallipoli, says: “General Godley, in passing through a sap recently, accidentally bumped into one of the Australians who was working vigorously with a pick. ‘All right, that’s the seventh what’s bumped me this morning,’ said the Australian. The general simply srailqd and remarked: ‘I don’t seem to be very popular here.’ ”, The Government are proposing to increase the charges for newspaper telegrams. The cost of telegraphic and cable news is very heavy on the newspapers at the present moment, the war cables being very numerous. In the face of the probabilities of increased charges tho only course open to the newspapers will be to reduce tho, supply of cables and telegrams, so the people will have to he contented with less war news. The 1 small newspapers in the Dominion are hard hit by the war, and increased charges will bo a very serious thing for them.—Elthaifi Argus. A report on the state of health of school children in the vicinity of Napier made by Dr. Gunn is causing much comment, and owing to the alleged sweeping and sensational . statements made therein the Education Board has deferred consideration of it. Referring io the Napier West School, which is situated in a district where a large majority of the people own the houses they reside in, the report comments on the" high percentage pf cases of malnutrition, and says this school is largely comprised of more or less '''undesirable children.” It is quite certain that ])r. Gunn will he asked to define what is meant by “undesirable children.” Many other statements have given offence. The suggestion made at the annual meeting of the Kaupotonni Company last week -that they should take up the role of conscriptionists and, by changing from cheese to butter making, force some of their factory workers into enlisting, is a typical instance of very much misdirected patriotism, however well-intentioned it may he. It evidently did not occur to the proposer of this kind of compulsion that a cheesemaker at Kaupbkonui is serving the Empire just now quite as effectively as if he were in the trenches at Gallipoli. The foodmaker is as important as a" fighting factor as the ammunition maker, if anything more so. It may be added that recent legislation has invested/ the Government with powers that have all the moral force of conscription, so that there is no no occasion for nervous or restless patriots to concern themselves about other .people in this, matter of military service.—Manaia Witness.