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Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1915, Page 12

Although halt the population of Bn-:i.-;h India do not eat beef, tlie number jf cattle there is much greater than any :ountrv in the world. A recent return jives the number of bulls, Imllocks and ws at over 72>/ 3 millions, excluding iuiM£ stock and buffaloes. .Scotch heather has been introduced in-1 to New Zealand, and an area of a' 100 acres in Tongariro Parle has been successfully sown. This was originally introduced as food for the red grouse. At the Acclimatisation Societies* Conference at Wellington, several delegates sounded la note of warning against the plant. It I was stated that the hardv Scotch ate the native flora. One of the practical schemes adopted to augment the Auckland patriotic funds i i 3 the issue of a war seal, to be affixed .'o the back of envelopes. It is a welldesigned seal, rather larger than an orI dinary Id stamp, showing a New Zealand I soldier on guard amid the smoke, of (battle. In the lower left-hand comer Uppers the Geneva Red Cross, The stamps are sold in sheets of twelye for '6d or twenty-feur for Is. It is expected, that a sum «f £4OOO can be raised by m«an» »f the war seal