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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 3, 28 June 1911, Page 4

H. J. GILBERT SEEDSMAN FLORIST and FRUITERER ALL SBBDS THOROUGHLY xSSTED BBPORH ffIE,LI2fG. COFFEE PALACE BUILDINGS, Devn Street.

"THERE'S THE POSTMAN!" If New Zealanders are heavily taxed, it is not through their Postal and Telegraphic Department. We possess what is prohably the most liberal system in the world, for no other country (as far as we are aware) carries a four-ounce letter within its own borders for a modest penny or its equivalent. We owe the decrease in charges to the optimism of Sir Joseph Ward and the agreement with other countries by which we can send a letter for a penny is the result of his faith in the ultimate success of the scheme. Recently in London, Sir Joseph Ward pointed out to the Philatelic Society that as far as the introduction of penny postage in Xew Zealand was concerned, that the loss of revenue occasion ed by its institution was recovered within two years of its inauguration. Sir Joseph Ward is still hopeful that his activity will induce a general realisation of the social value of universal penny postage. The State everywhere undertakes its own postal work, and it therefore should not be so much n matter of obtaining profit, as of attaining greater public convenience. For a long time Australia refused to reciprocate with New Zealand in the matter of penny postage, but now does so. Sir Joseph Ward prophesies that the extra business done will recoup the initial loss to the Commonwealth in two and a-half years. France no longer objects to a reciprocal penny postage with New Zealand, and this is an advance. Sir Joseph Ward points out that countries refusing penny postage must ultimately—when they see that it is not ruinous—come into the union. Tt is only necessary to revive the fact, that when Australian-English postage dropped from fid to 2'/ 2 d the business quadrupled within a year, but its most important effect was its social effect. It brought the peoples of old and new lands into closer touch. Universal penny postage followed later by universal cheap cables will do more for wider social understanding than all the diplomats of all the Powers. NEW ZEALAND BUTTER AT HOME. The New Zealand Dnirvinfln has a rather important arti"le in its last regarding the slump in the New Zealand butter market, during the past season. It savs