The Waikato Times, THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE, AND KAWHIA ADVOCATE. Established Thirty-Four Years, THE OLDEST DAILY NEWSPAPER IN THE WAIKATO. THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY DAILY PAPER SOUTH OF AUCKLAND. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1906. THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

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The Waikato Times, THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE, AND KAWHIA ADVOCATE. Established Thirty-Four Years, THE OLDEST DAILY NEWSPAPER IN THE WAIKATO. THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY DAILY PAPER SOUTH OF AUCKLAND. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1906. THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

In moving in the llouse of Representatives a few days ago tliattlie J louse record its appreciation of the services of the Postmaster-General, Sir Wiiliam J. Steward was voicing the opinion of all shades of political belief, as was shown by the manner in which the motion was received and passed. Tliu accomplishments of Sir Joseph Ward at the recent Postal Conference at Home were such as entitle him to the warm gratitude of the country he represented, and were but another advance in the march of postal reform he is leading. Thanks to his able advocacy, New Zealand will at future Postal Conferences, have recognition as an independent entity, and will also have a separate vote, the lack of which has been felt by our representative in the past. Another innovation, the beneficial effects of which will come home more nearly to the average citizen, is the adoption of pennv postage by the United States of America, as between that country and New Zealand. This is a marked advance and it encourages us to hope that eie long the other countries of the Union will fall into line and that the familiar penny stamp will be the passport of letters into every land. These and a great many other reforms, if not initiated, have been successfully carried out by the present Postmaster - General in the course of a very few years, and have added in t a 1 itt'e to the regard in which New Zealand i.-, held in other lands. And Sir Joseph has not yet by any means e.*; l, asted his programme. Oiler refo-nis will be initiated in due course, and if the same degree of success attends them as has marked those we have mentioned. New Zealand will be able to fairly claim that she lias led the great nations of the world in the department of all others advancing mutual understanding. There is every reason to hope that the application to all countries of the Postal Union, of the reform now adopted by the United Stales, and which has proved Mich a boon since it came into force in New Zealand, will not be long delayed. Sir Joseph Ward in his administration of the Post OHice, has laid a claim to the sympathy and support of the colonv. and however he may be differed from in matters of politics generally, uone will be found to deny that his control of the Post and Telegraph Department has been in every way a beneficent one for the colony.

" \VH ITK " SUGAR. One of the foremost advocates of a white Australia is Dr. McDonald, who is at present on a visit to New Zealand. A movement in which Dr, McDonald li as taken an active pari, lias placed, for the lirst time in history. white men and women to work on the sugar cane fields of Queen,sland. This year seventy per cent, of the sugar crop will he harvested by men and women of our own nationality. It is not the climate of tropical regions that has up till the present rendered black labour necessary in the sugar industry. It is rather the diseases of such regions—malaria and other such diseases—that are inimical to white people. Tropica! hygiene has now, however, so far conquered malaria as to throw open the gates of the tropics to the white races. One of Dr. McDonald's missions to New Zealand is to advocate an institution of reciprocal trade in white-grown sugar ou th,& one hand and New Zealand jams and

preserves on the other, ami lie shows f hat such an arrangement would be liuucliciiil to hoi !i countries. I'or some time past Australia has lieen lighting ;i siiLfur liioiiop)>l y. ami the

nationalisation uf the industry is now rapidly coming about. Dr. McDonald claims that New Zealand could help common national progress by friendly treatment through the customs of white-grown sugar.