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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 179, 29 July 1909, Page 3

Tommy Burns, ex-champion heavyweight of the world, will leave Sydney for Wellington on .Saturday next, and commence his New Zealand tour at the Opera House in that city on Monday, August 9th. The Auckland season will commence at His Majesty's Theatre on August 24th. The New Zealand tour will be managed by Mr. Will Jameson. Tenders for building row of four brick shops and dwellings at King's Court, Queen-street, closed at Mr. F. W. May's office to-day as follow:—W. E. Hutchinson, £2973 (accepted); Craig Bros., £2974; J. J. Holland, £3055; F. Fortzer, £3159; J. Davis, £3175; J. T. Julian, £3257; J. D. Jones, £3300; Hamon and Son, £3354; G. A. Jones, £3410; Guthrie and Colburn, £3510; W. Ball, £3530. At the Land Board meeting this morning an interesting discussion took place upon a point of some importance to tenants of Crown lands. Under our Land Board laws any selector who takes up heavy bush land is entitled to four years' exemption of rent, but if he transfers his holding within four years the Board can call up a)l arrears of rent, i.e., a selector disposing of his holding in the fifth year would be called upon to pay four years' rent, in addition to the rent, due for the expired portions of the fifth year. To-day the Board received a letter from Messrs. Gillies and Gilfillan, solicitors, on behalf of Messrs. H. Voyle and McLean, transferees of Section 2, Block L, Mau'ngamangero, S.D., that the arrears of rent 1 exempted under the Bush and Swamp Act be not collected up to the time of the transfer, as it wa3 not a full transfer, but only a transfer for the purpose of creating a bona fide partnership. The Board had to decide whether a selector taking another man into partnership and transferring his holding to the partnership firm effected thereby such a transfer as would create a liability on his part to pay up all arrears of ren'.- The Board decided that such a transfer was an ordinary transfer, and instructed the secretary to apply to the original selector (now one of the partners) for all arrears of rent. If this decision is good in law, a liability falls, in the absence ot any agreement to the contrary between the partners, not upon the partnership firm, but upon the original selector. In this particular case that liability exceeds £100. Some time ago the Auckland Farmers' Union brought under the notice of the Chamber of Commerce the necessity for a stock track between Gisborne ana Galatea. The Chamber at once took the matter up and communicated with the Government, with the result that the track has been completed, and the plan showing the route of the track is now on exhibition at the Chamber of Commerce rooms. The covering letter which the secretary has received from the Government states that the track has been open and ready for use since October of last year, but up till the present it has ilot been used. "As a matter of fact," said Mr. G. J. Garland, secretary of the Farmers' Union, when speaking of the matter to a "Star" reporter this morning, "there are probably not two dozen farmers who know of the existen«-> of the track. From a Farmers' Union point of view it is very gratifying to know that the work has been done, and the driving of store stock from the Poverty Bay district to the Waikato made possible. It cannot be too widely known that the track is now open for traffic of this; kind." I The true American at work is a thing rarely seen (remarks a London critic). He thinks a bit, perhaps, and the resonant, banjo-like twang of what he is pleased to call his voice ruins the wires of N thousands of telephones, but whenever you do run against any actual work being gerij ously done in the city of New York, it is I generally by foreigners. A German shaves you and waits on you, a Frenchman cooks for you, a "dago" mends the road that you walk on, a negro railroad conductor takes your ticket and minds your manners, a Chinaman does your washing, and an Irishman either knocks you down or locks you up. Where the true-born Amecan's share in the labour of his country lies is a puzzle I had rather not solve today, thank you.