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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16507, 7 August 1919, Page 2

Sir James Allen states that the reason the departure of the warship New Zealand from Australia is being delayed is that Lord Jellicoc is anxious to moot Mr. Hughes, who is now on his way from England. The extent of the delay is uncertain.—Press Assn.

‘■Pelorus Jack,” a brindled bulldog, lias been the masf-ot and wardroom pel on HjjM.S. Now Zealand for some lour yearf^iast. He served through the Battle of Jutland. He knows what is happening so well that when “stations” is sounded lie seeks refuge, and when the guns begin to roar ho has a rest down below.

'The post ami telegraph revenue of the New Plymouth postal district for the quarter ended June 30 was £15.14-1, which is £1278 more than that for the June quarter of last year. The Savings Lank deposits last quarter were £270.0dd and the withdrawals £305, GOO, as compared with £lOO.llO and £2iio.oL’l in the June quarter last year. The money order business also showed a very large increase. ‘•This is the twelfth charge brought against this parent for not sending the child to .school,” said the truant oilicer, Mr. G. Paseoc, in tho Magistrate’s Court' this morning, referring to a charge against .Ernest George, horsetrainer, of failing to have his child on the roll of any school. Mr. A. H. Johnstone explained on behalf of defendant that the hoy recently commenced to attend school again and it was intended that he should do so regularly in future. The Magistrate (.Mr. M’lvean) convicted defendant and ordered him to pay the costs (75.) Evidence given hy a bookseller in the course of the hearing of a dispute ia the Arbitration Court at Wellington a day or two ago, was to the effect that Now Zealand readers secure their hooks at a much lower price than is paid in Great liritain. Books sold in Great Britain for 7s each, he said, n ere required to bo sold in Now Zealand at 5s each. It was realised by tho publishers apparently that tho eolVinkil reader was not prepared to pay the high price exacted from the people at Home. ‘‘We haven’t the moneyed class here that can afford such prices,” remarked Mr. Justice Stringer. Who was the youngest young man to go to the war from Now Zealand? A Dominion representative believes ho has discovered him in Wellington in a resident of Dunedin, but cannot, for obvious reasons, reveal his name, as its owner must necessarily have to plead guilty to misrepresentation as to his ago. Suffice to say that the soldier in question went away will; the Third Reinforcement, and he is only 21 years of ago now. Ho fought through tho whole of tho Gallipoli campaign, and ‘ stuck it” to tho end in France without once being ‘‘smacked up,” and today ho looks exactly his age—war has riot furrowed his fair skin or greyed his locks. An article in the London Mail tolls o ( the taxless town. Not only does the town of Orson, in Sweden, impose no taxes, but there is no charge for telephone service, schools, libraries, or the use of the city railway. “All this is due to the wisdom of a former generation who planted trees on tho available oroiind, with tho result that during the past 80 years tho town authorities have sold 5,000,000 dollars worth of young trees and timber, while, judicious .replantings have provided for a similar income in the future.” Monrmalon, France, goes still further. The communal land provides enough timber to allow each person a small annuity. If these things have a moral, it surely is—plant more trees and conserve the forests. All the Nynl preparations can he obtained from the Central Pharmacy (between Morey’s and Mollison’s); ’phone