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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1641, 14 May 1925, Page 6

After a lapse of some 30 years the Honourable Artillery Company of London is reviving its picturesque Company of Pikeman. in the reign of Charles 1., the pikemen will wear breastplate, tasses, and backplate over a brick-red cassock; trousers and stockings of the same colour, a steel morion, shoes with rosettes, buff gauntlets, and a crimson sash. The arms will be a 12ft. pike and a sword. Manual exercise of the period has been obtained from contemporary military books. ' I

During the 11 months ended 28th February, 1925, mortgages to the sum of £1,971,649 were registered in Taranaki (says the Herald), and in the same period mortgages to the amount of £1,714,302 were discharged. The improved conditions in Hawke's Bay are reflected in the figures for those districts. In Hawke's Bay mortgages registered totalled £2,455,187 and those discharged amounted to £2,240,342; while in Poverty Bay the respective totals were £1,032,648 and £981,779. The figures for the whole of New Zealand were £37,060,327 and £26,099,704 respectively. Auckland, Wellington, Can ter.bury, and Otago showed large increases in mortgages.

The new Belfast mail train, which covers the 230 miles from London to Fleetwood, in Lancashire, at something over 54 miles an hour, is one of the fastest long-distance trains in England. It still fails, however, to equal the speed of the Paddington-Penzance express ,which makes the journey of 226 i miles in four hours seven minutes, or rather better than 55 miles an hour. The fastest trip of over a hundred miles is still made by the Pad-dington-Bristol express, which covers the distance in a fraction under 60 miles an hour. Perhaps the new mon-

ster locomotives whiclh the Great Southern Railways is building, and which are said to be able to pull a 450 ton train at 75 miles an hour, are preparing to beat this record.

Denmark, who knows something of the secret of marketing, does not affect any device or brand for its produce. It sells. Danish butter as Danish butter, and gets top price for it. Australia has adopted a "Kangaroo," but Australia has yet to demonstrate that its butter will sell better for this than merely as "Australian." In spite of what enthusiasts say to the contrary, there are many English people to-day apart from the single million who saw the New Zealand footballers play, who are quite ignorant of the fact that the poverty-stricken title "All Blacks" is connected with the Dominion of New Zealand. Why should we give consumers of our butter and cheese a similar hurdle to surmount. If we get a reputation for our produce we want it to be called "New Zealand," and to sell as such. It is silly to call it anything else, or to confuse the issue by adding any device to the name.