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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 208, 31 August 1917, Page 4

The Weather Bureau forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. this day is as follows:

" The indications are for freshening northerly winds, strong to gale. The weather appears likely to be cloudy and unsettled, with rain. Barometer falling. Seas rough; tides g00d. ,.

The Town Clerk, replying to the letter from Sanford and Co., stating that they would not pay further taxation in the form of inspection fees for fish, r-tated:—

" When your premises were appointed as a place where such inspection could he made, it was on the understanding that you should pay the fees fixed by the by-law, and unless good faith is kept in this respect, the Council will be under the necessity cf cancelling the appointment of your premises, and requiring all your fish to be submitted for inspection at the fish market in terms of the Act of 1015. There is no desire to do this unless your own action forces it." To this Mr. A. Sanford has replied that it would be very expensive to put the company's fish through the City MnrKet. and would raise the price of fish 00 per cent to the people. He concludes —"No action of mine shall force thn Council into the position of having to injure the people by putting up the cost of living, therefore I promise that pood faith shall be kept in paying over the monry and appealing to the honesty of the Council to refund all the money we pay over and above our share of the cost of inspection. Trufctinpt that this will be satisfactory to the Council, and that peace will prevail in the trade, so that we all can devote our abilities to lowering the cost of living, thereby helping to win the AVar of Nation?. I have the honour to be the obedient servant of nil tijess people whom God f?) in His Tvisdom has I placed above rae.' .

The cost price of Xciv Zealand lamb to the. retailer has at last been ascertained, fays the "Daily Mail" of July 8. Replring- in the House, of Commons to Mr. Yeo, Mr Georpe Roberts, Parliamentary Secretary cf the Board ot Trade, said.

"The Board of Trade purchase this lamb by the encase at a cost of Oj]d per lb. The importer's commission is 2 per cent. The wholesaler's profit is limited to id per Ib. The expenses of the department for administration, cost of storage, and various uninsurable risks are 1:]\1 per lb. The meat is sold to the retailer at about, l(Hd per lb." From a leading London stores the "Daily Mail" received the fo'.iott'ing list of retail prices for Colonial lamb: Forequarters, 1/3 A a lb; hindquarters, 1/s*; leg, \/<U; "necks, whole, 1/4; saddles, 1/oJ: shoulrlere. 1/oJ. Tbia sho\ra n profit for the retailer of from 5d to Sd per lb.

The eecretary of the League of .Mctlrers of the First Division telegraphed yesterday to the Hon. James Allen. Minister of Defence, asking if it was correct that the Second Division would be called up in Xovemher. The Minister promptly replied by telegram as iollows: '•I am not in a position to say definitely when the Second Division will be called up. It is possible that they may be balloted in November, but I cannot say at present when they will be called up."

A brass tablet in memory of SecondI.ioutenant John Steuart Dag™, tita illauraki) Repiment, who was killed in the battle of the Somme, will be. unveiled in St. Aidan'e Churcli, Hcmucra,

by tho Anglican Bishop of -Auckland, tlnsj evening at T. 40. Lieutenant Dazs l'- J sided for a number of years in the pansli.J and was a member of the choir and Sunday-school stafl'. The cost of the tablet lias been subscribed by the Sunday-school children a'-iJ church ivorkens. ,'

A showcase in the doorway of Messrs Vade and Co.'s shop in Karangahape *oad was forced, and "goods 'to the valut )f about £5 taken by burglars last even ng. When the manager came down thil uorninj; he found that the large show ase which was in the doorway had beei oroed open, the lock taken away, am ilectrical goods, comprising electrii ;orches, abstracted. Those eoncernei mist have been disturbed, ac the door o he case was left open, and a large quan ity of goods wag left in the case. Thi liscovery was made'bj' a constable 01 luty at about 5.30 o'clock this morning The police have the matter in hand. A branch of the Society for the Pro ection of Women and Children and tbi ?revention of Cruelty to Animals wa: brmed at Te Kuiti, at a meeting of resi lents presided over by the Mayor, Mr Findlay. The lion. George Fov.-ld: chairman of the Auckland branch of the Society) was present by invitation, am Explained the objects of the organjsa .ion. He also referred to the good worl that had been accomplished by the Aucfc and Society throughout the whole pre ,-ince. A letter has been forwarded to th Minister of Finance in reference to th ivar loan by the Newmarket Boroug Council making a suggestion which woulu ?nablc all local bodies to subscribe to the ivar loan. Tbc position of Xewniarkct aider tlic scheme outlined is as follows: Tin; borough has a ratable value in round figures of £38,000. Assuming that the borough was allowed by law to place £2,000 into the present war loan the. figures would work out as follows: — Dr. £'-2.000 at .VI per cent, from bank, £110; (r. £2.000 war bonds at 4* per rent, £1)0. A U rate on £38,000 would bring in £15S, and the Council would, therefore, be enabled to pay the difference between the 4J per cent received as interest on the war bonds and the oj per cent liability to the bank, amounting to C2O, and pay the bank a further £100 in extinction of ite overdraft of £2,000. This would cover a period of 20 years. A special rate of Id struck would be circulated to every ratepayer within the borough, and therefore every property owner or ratepayer would be contributing directly at very s.nall expense to your war loan, according to the value of his property. A reply to a resolution forwarded to the Hon.' \V. D. S. Macdonald. Minister of Agriculture, by the executive of the Auckland branch oi the larmers' Union, asking tbat the Government sliouM make advances to dairy companies or. the butter in store in order that tliej could make advancpe to their cui»toraer!i, has been received by the Farmers' Lnioii from the Prime Minister I Mr. W. !•- Massey). The Prime Minister expressed pleasure in advising the union that as the result of a representative conference of butter producers and himself, held recently, it was hoped that a satisfactory arrangement would be arrived at for the disposal of butter now in store and tho further quantities to be produced during the forthcoming season. We have been informed by Mr. H. E. Pacey, managing director of the X.Z. Dairy Association, that there are 120,000 boxes of butter in store in Auckland. A man named Leslie Craig, aged 25 years, residing at Burnley Jsrrace, Dominion Road, was admitted to the hospital this morning suffering from injuries caused through falling from a motor cycle- He was teaching a friend to ride, and mounted the machine behind his friend on starting. Tho machine immediately got out of control and dashed into a post. Craig was thrown off. and received injuries to his right knee. The Onehunga district coroner I Mr D. A. 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