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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 226, 17 June 1915, Page 3

There are now about 050 Civil Servants either on active service or in actual training and of these 300 belong to the Post and Telegraph Department, which was one of the first branches of the public, service to offer men for service at the front.

The C,ormans have evidently a bettor idea of the fitness of tilings than New Zealanders, as on April Ist the hands of every clock in Germany we/© set forward one hour. By rising tn hour earlier it is-estimated that £21.000,000 worth of petroleum will bo saved during the six months of summer.

Out of the 1,2000,000 men accepted for .Kitchener 's first army. 900.000 were married, most of them with children. It looks suspiciously as if the single young Bull, who should be {he first in the fray, has boon hanging back, remarks an Australian paper. Which orI&euqs the dead-set made in some qu;:>ters against the continuance of {l-o; »ports programmes.