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Shannon News, 31 October 1922, Page 3

Tihe Hamilton Chamber of Commerce forwarded to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce a. copy of a lettier which it . had sent to the Post-master-General. This embodies suggestions in favour of a penny postage for invoices and unsealed printed matter up to 4oz for commercial papers and printed matter within the Dominion, and pointing out that in the delivery of invoices and monthly statements office boy-s and girls were largely employed under the present rates. Also it was pointed out’ that the Post Office was not nearly so largely used for the transmission of printed matter as in 1914. The Wellington Chamber received the letter. Mr E. J. Howard, M.P., became somewhat mixed in his figures of speech during the course of his address on the! Education vote at the Masonic Hall in Christchurch on Saturday night. When he was a boy at sea, he said, he used to marvel at the accuracy of the old sailors in their predictions of rough weather ahead. ‘‘They knew what was coming by the little ripples on the sea, and it is the same with politicians —they can tell by the little ripples on the sea when there is going to be dirty weather at the 'cross-roads.”