GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2227, 15 January 1921, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

The operations of the New Zealand Forestry Department have reached a stage where a larger scale stalling is required, and applications arc now being invited for a number of appointments. The officers who are to be selected include two conservators of forests at £7OO a year each, one conservator at £OOO, two experts at £5lO and £470 respectively. and 20 forest rangers at £320 each; The positions ought to be attractive to many young New Zealanders, but it appears likely that for the more'responsible officers the Government will have to look abroad.

1 “1 am glad that the Government which, not withstanding .what some people say, is the only true workingman's Government we have ever had, did not increase workers’ railway fares to any appreciable degree when it was found necessary to raise fares,” said the Hon. C. J. Parr, at New Lynn last week, ‘‘and that ought to stand to Mr Massey’s credit for a long time. 1 claim some credit for having spoken strongly on i ho false policy of making it (lit - tie lilt: for workers to live in suburban districts,” continued Mr Parr. “The present worker's ticket at 2s (id a week is not only reasonable, but extremely moderate; cheaper, in fact, than car fare to Ponsonby or Hcmuera. I merely call attention to the fact because sometimes what the Government does for the working maiiois conveniently forgotten.

"In many district* ot New Zealand the character of the tree* planted denote-- the view-point of the .-ettlers, and from what part of the world they i-aine," -remarked the President (Mr R. Nairn, of Christchurch) at the conference of the New Zealand Association of Nurserymen, at Wellington. “Englishmen and Scotchmen from the Old World were not satisfied unless they set out oak, elm, ash, sycamore, hornbeam, beech, hawthorn, and similar trees, whereas the squatters of the South Island, who mostly came from Australia, brought with them the seeds of the eucalyptus and sowed them freely around their homesteads. This explains why the old static/ homesteads of the South Island have such large specimens, of the gum in such localities.

A Wellington company having in-.-cried in jtu advertisement for its goods the Tine, “Don't support the nation that was last in (the war) and first out,” the Ameriean ConsulGeneral at Auckland, Mr A. A. Winplow, protested to the Minister for Industries and Commerce, states an exchange. The Hon. E. P. Lee, writing to the linn in question, pointed out that the advertisement did not conform to the standards of fairness that are traditional amongst Britishers, and asked to have it withdrawn. The company in reply declared that it would withdraw the advertisement now that it had served its purpose, lint it strongly protested against the dumping of goods into New Zealand from a country where there was the most intense bitterness against the British Empire, and asked the question: “Can the Americans point to a single instance in which the l nited Stales of America ever said ‘thank you to the British Empire for lighting on the soil of Prance while Americans remained safely at home coining the almighty dollar?” The correspondence remains tit this point.