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Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1924, Page 3

IMMOBTAL WAR I’ll RASE. Most of the jargon which the Bntis.i soli I iers learned during the war ..isai'poaied with the dolling of the line or | ; |,aki but there occurs to-day. says a “Morning Tost” writer, the tenth anniversary of what was apparently the first use of a phrase which is still emnloved on occasions. . “There is a certain liveliness, read the official description of what was happening at sea. and In! the words bad tome to stay. “A certain live mess came to be used to describe all suits of situations, and while “Napoo. “Umpteen,” “Sunfnirvou.” and kindred terms have passed to their untmal end. those three words seem to have mastered the secret of immortality.

NEW JATANF.se STAMPfs. The emergency stamps which have been in use in Janan since the earthquake of last year are to he replaced by a reissue of stamps in the old type current at the time of the catastrophe. Great progress has been made with the reconstruction of the Government printing works, and this establishment has now been working for some time on the printing of regular stamps. The emergency stamps have been issued without gum. and imperforate, a serious handicap in a country which lias long been accustomed to the modorn convenience of perforated an< ifuimnod stamps. Some of the stamps have been reported by the now issue chroniclers with perforations, hut these are all of an unofficial character.