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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 310, 7 October 1915, Page 3

Or.-i -ations in the Euphrates Valley must be v.lhat Mr Kipling callsi “wicked bad campaigning.” Mr Austen Chamberlain described to the House of Commons recent engagements which have been fought with the thermometer at 113 in the shade —if there was any—and mentioned that soldiers were being sent back to India to get cool. Wthich remnlds us of the time-honorhed stcry of the deceased resident of Aden who returned from a traditionally warm climate to fetch his greatcoat. It is gratifying to hear that, in spite of all, the health of the troops remains vehy good. ■ S , The universal rule of the Posta Union is to charge double the deficiency (raised on an|y postal packet in consequence of the short payment of postage. The Postmaster-General hoped to be abl e to make an. exception on behalf of tfhe Dominion public when the halfpenny war-tax was recently imposed. But so many difficultes and delays have arisen in the way of computing the charges in consequence of the exemption that the Minister has found it necessary to withdraw tjhe exemption and to ordet postmasters to follow the rule of making the surcharge the double of the deficiency. A postal packet, therefore which with the war-tax should be pre paid IJd, and is only prepaid Id, will carry the usual surcharge of Id,

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