MAIL NOTICES.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1917, Page 2

MAIL NOTICES.

NEW PLYMOUTH. Subject to necessary ilterntions, mails will ciose at the Chief Post Office, Now Plymouth, as under: For Auckland and North, daily per train at 8.15 a.m. For Auckland and North, per steamer, Tuesday and Friday, at 7 p.m. For Napier and Gisborne. daily at 0.15 a.m. For Wellington and South, daily at G. 15 a.m., and 11 a.m. For Wnnganui and intermediate offices, daily at 6.10 a.m., 11 a.m., and 3 p.m. For Opunake and intermediate offices per motor bus, daily at fi.ls a.m. Mails for the United Kingdom, America, ami all oversea countries, including Australia, will be desjialched from time to time by the best route without special notification.

Money-orders, registered letters and parcels, post parcel, close one hour before the ordinary mail. C. H. BURTON, Chief Postmaster,

In a paper read at the Manawatu Philosophical Society's meeting last week Mr J. W. Poynton gave some Interesting information as to the possibilities of nut and orange culture in New Zealand. He said that the peanut is moßt nutritious and should be grown on the pumice and sand soil of life north part of this island. The American pecan nut would prow in river soils of both islands. It is the best and most valuable of all nuts, and the timber of Hie tree is very valuable also. The Xepaul pine nut tree could be grown oa .all the southern mountains. It jirodue.es .very i,\veet edible seeds and turjjcutinc and resin. Another mountain pine with Jarge edible seeds is found in California, ■ar.d might easily be introduced hero. The Washington navel orange, the .mandarin, and the shaddock would grow in North Auckland and perhaps the Bay of Plenty. The lecturer also mentioned an 'extraordinary forage jdant which .'crov.-ri in papa formation and might he introduced here, it is known as Pob.ojium Saghalincnso, and reaches a height of 10 feet in three weeks. The leaves ;ittain one foot in length and nine inches in width. Once planted it never dies jind neither water nor lire will destroy it. It needs no cultivation and grows where no other foragi- jdant will exist. .It is more nulrilirms than clover or alfalfa. The leaves, green or dry, arc greatly relished by cattle, and the flowers are good for honey and the seeds ■for poultry.