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Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 December 1915, Page 3

A small farmer at Keri K©ri, Bay of Islands, whose clip of wooi amounts to five bales, when sending it to Auckland asked that one bale be sold in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. This bale was sold and over again "until £250 was liaised for tlie fund, much to the delight of the 'armor.

Mr W. H, Field, M.P., has been interesting himself in tlie leakage o. gold' coins from the country. In a letter received from a •well-known business man Mr Field is informed that the Chinese do not' get the money from the hanks. The purchase is from outsiders, the Chinese paying them a premium cd 5 from Is to Is fid in the £. "I venture to say (Tvritcs Mr' Field's informant) that flvery Chinaman who leaves this dominion to return to China takes from 100 to 200 sovereigns with him. and 1 maintain that this gold goes into the hand of the enemies of the British Empire when it roaches China, and the gold taken out of the British dominions and colonies in one year hy Chinese returning to China would run into many thousands 1 of pounds. If tfceso facts were brought before the present Minis tor of Finance, and were by him brought under the notice ox the Secretary for the Colonies, aotion would be taken to stop the traffic by Chinamen in British gold." Mr Field brought the matter under the notice or the Minister for Finance, and has been naked by him to obtain particulars of any cases of Chinese suspccted of rccumuinting andi exporting sovereign--. The Government lias already tak"ii measures to prevent the export of g"ld coins by Chinese, and if there are still oases where it is suspected that "the lew in being evaded, the proper preventive steps will no taken.'