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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 17 August 1908, Page 4

In consequence of Thursday next be ing the opening night of the Kapongi Band Bazaar, Mr Astbury has altere< the date of his Rirerlea meeting t< Wednesday, August 19. During the consideration of a-motioi (with reference to gravelling a road] at Hawera County Council meeting 01 Saturday the quality of the Mount Eg mont metal was mentioned. The Chair man stated that a quantity had beei laid near the Normanby station and i1 had been pointed out that the stuf could be broken easily with, the hand That was a hard statement to be be lieved. In order to test the metal h< himself secured a sample and founc that it could be broken up between th< fingers. At a later stage of the meet ing Cr Davidson brought up the mat ter of calling for tenders for the com pletion of metalling Ohangai road The Engineer pointed out that ther« was not sufficient metal available ai present, unless Mount Egmont meta were used. The Chairman said it wai not much use thinking of the metal ii it were condemned. Other councillor! agreed. Cr Davidson, however, wai assured that the Ohangai road woulc be metalled during the summer. ■ Excitement has been created ji French art circles (states the Daili Mail) by the action of M. Clause Monet the leading impressionist painter, wh< has just destroyed a score of his paint ings, the fruit of three years' labor and the market valuo of which wai probably about £20,000, on the scor< that they were not worthy of him. Th< only incident of a similar kind whicl the present generation can recall is th< destruction of his own works by th< •veteran painter Degas, who. is now ii poverty, and who made several for tunes by his brush, but spent them al in buying back pictures which he con sidered unworthy of his name. , At the last meeting of the Taranak School Commissioners, the Ranger, ii reference to the gravel reserve, of 18; acres at Kapuni now held by ' th< exeoutors of the late Ms T. L. : Joll suggested publicly submitting the lant for lease, either on rontwable lease 'o: tenants at will, and ho estimated th< rentals that could be asked. The Secre tary reported ' having communicate! with Mr ,H. T. Joll on tho matter, anc further consideration was postponed til next meeting. A transfer of lease, .roa: granted under usual conditions f rom j G. Davidson and E. M. Hardwipk t< H. G. Lovell of. sub. 1, section 22, blocl 15, Kaupokonui. ' ' . An officer of the Wellington Citj Council tells a story of the manner ii which the generosity of a thrifty house wife in the capital city was abused, He /is a superintendent , of; hawkers licenses. The housewife asked him fee estimate the weight of -t sack tof potatoes that a. hawker had sold-io her, He said the weight was 801b or 901b. She sstid it had been sold to her as a hundredweight. The officer, who was once an the police force, went" after the hawker,, caught him, made him weigb the, potatoes, and they fturned the scale at 841b. A few days afterwards another hawker* came J round." ,He also had potatoes, ''nice flowery, ones.?' "Be off with you," she said. "I know you hawkers. You T re all of a. piece. I haa one here the other ,day ? who sold me 841b as a hundredweight. FH.have no more of it." With a look of injured innocence, he protested that it was "the likes of that fellow that prevented honest men getting an honest living." The housewife relented, and the man, struggled in with a sack of splendid flowery potatoes. The officer lifted it, and found that it was over the hundredweight. The housewife was de-. lighted with the splendid quality of the potatoes, /as well as with the. honest weight, until she had used s them four rows down, when she came upon rows of rotten onions and other decaying vegetables. 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