INTERESTING ITEMS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 16 September 1915, Page 7

INTERESTING ITEMS.

A. returned soldier en the Tahiti says: "A letter was a god-send. If people in New Zealand only realised how welcome a letter was they would write to felJows whether they knew them or Tiot We used to read our letters over and over again, ami .sometimes swap with our friends for variety." The Minister for Defence has received from headquarters at Gallipe-li a letter dated 25th July, stating that they did not want untrained or iuufrieienfly trained men, and urging that Xew Zea-

land keep up the full quota of reinforcements, as that would be worth three times as many as many untrained men. Every officer and soldier at the front, would adopt the same views. The last reinforcements were splendid.

From (risborne comes news that, although up to the present official approval has not bee secured of the proposal to send Maori girls to Egypt to assist with the nursing of New Zealand wounded, the Natives are still moving in the matter. It is understood that Lady Carroll herself is anxious that if her services would be of value shn should be allowed to accompany the draft of Native girls who are anxious to proceed to Egypt.

The editor of a paper connected with the I.W.W. organisation was fined £SO at Sydney or. a charge of publishing a poster contravening the War Precautions Act. The poster read: "To Arms—Capitalists, Parsons, Politicians, Landlords, Newspaper Editors.

and other • stay-at-home politicians. Your Country Needs You. Workers, Follow Your Masters.." The editor was also fined £2O for issuing the post-

er without the name of the printer and publisher.

A resolution dealing with the Gov-

ernment's war taxation proposal* was passed in the following terms by the Wellington branch of the, Social 1/emoci'at'ic partly; recency: "That this meeting condemns the Fusion Govisrnm'ent's taxation proposals, which it

regards a;s an attempt to relieve the

moneyed interests of their obligation

in connection with the war expenditure while throwing almost the wii >le burden on the already overtaxed ■•-orking class section of the community/'