NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 1 September 1915, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

OUR WAR CORRESPONDENT-

SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT J USE OF CABLE PROPOSED. | S WELLINGTON, This Day I The Premier states that ha is thinklag of arranging for some of tha New Zaaland wsjt* correspondent's matter to be sent by cable. Events were moving so rapidly in;

the Dardanelles that the Dominion' couhfnet wait for letters without impa. . tience. It may be mentioned that a I large batch of letters from Mr Rossarrived this week, covering neatly a month, and 1 'beaming internal evidence of delay by csiivc-rs, and in the mails r | as somtJ of tti'e letters considerably . antedate lils letter published'last week.

"BLOOD MONEY:''' HIGH. PRICES DENOUNCED. WHANGAREi; August 31. In view of the Bbdgetf proposals, a shareholder of" the Whaugaroi Dairy Company at the annual meeting" moveuT "That last year's resolution' voting; 1-Sd per lb on butter-fat as a contribution to the war fund"be rescinded."

It was declared' that'' contributing to the war fund meant reducing the taxation on the men having much more money than dairymen; viz., the Biggest land and property owners in the Dominion. No objection was made to tho directors having the power to donate to the local sick and" wounded fund.

The chairman (Mr. Henry Wafcelin) declared that the high' prices for but-ter-fat was Kke blood" money. They knew what was the cause of the high prices to their sorrow. He'hoped theshareholders would show their gratitude.

The meeting decided to empower the directors to make donations- as they deemed advisable, but not to the war fund, the limit of the donations to be£lSo. equal to what 1-Sd" per lb «m butter-fat produced last' season.