NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2661, 20 November 1923, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

At one time it was decided to enforce the dog tax on the Chatham Islands (says the Christchurch Press). With this object in view, summonses were issued to a large number of natives. Fines were inflicted, hut these were not paid, and the natives gathered around the lock-up clamouring to he allowed In “take it out.” Needless to say no further attempt has been made to collect the tax.

Advice to the young' men in the Post and Telegraph Department t" specialise was given hy Mr H. Ih Groeott, i'ormer Chief Postmaster at Wellington, when speaking at a valedictory funefion on the occasion of his retirement. Things had developed so rapidly in the last, few years that lie predicted that mails would he carried hy air. In the latest, aircraft there were fully-equip-ped sorting rooms for mails. In referring to the amazing growth of the telegraph and telephone business and wireless, which was still in its infancy, the possibilities to his mind bewildered the imagination and the future would give the voting men oL - to-day far greater opportunities l|>;in they had ever had in the history of the department.