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Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1791, 30 November 1895, Page 2

At McNicol’s cattle and horse sale, held At Paeroa yards on Thursday, a good num-". ber were present, but the bidding wa3 a little slack; ’ Heifers from £2 to £5; steers from £1 5? .. Some two, years ago the Government of . this Colony decided to allow advertisements tp appear on the back of telegraph forms • and- postage stamps, says 1 tbje Dunedin ■StSr, but the practice 'was discontinued after the first year’s contract.; Now the Victorian Government have resolved on. a similar experiment on the front of post, cards, and this, is how the Argus views the -matter: —* We have received a specimen oL the cards which are to be issued under the new arrangements. There can be only one Opinion on the subject, and that is that the Postmaster-Gbneral, instead of making the best of a bad bargain and demanding thatr none but neat aud inoffensive advertisements should be placed on the, cards, has” outraged all the canons of taste by allow-.; ing the virtues of a particular tobacco and a certain brand of beer to be set forth in, glaring type on a large portion of the side of the card on which the address is to be written. Apart altogether from the indecency of allowing advertisements on official documents, it is a distinct insult to persons who do not believe in smoking or drinking that a public department should be made use of to push the sale of beer and tobacco.’