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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 50, 1 March 1922, Page 4

A rather interesting point was raised before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., in an application made by Mr. J. J. Sullivan for possession of a tenement. The premises belonged to the Colonial Motor Co., and possession was wanted for one of the staff. It was contended by counsel that the house being wanted for an employee placed the matter on the same basis ac if it was wanted for the owner's use. Mr. Cutten reserved his decision.

When the fire brigade engine passed down Queen Street about ten o'clock this morning at the customary rate of speed when responding to a call, and with the siren shrieking, and pulled up along the ■waterfront, people who saw it naturally thought that there was a fire in the locality. "T/his was not the caee, however, the turn-out being the result of a hoax by some irresponsible person, that the Northern Steamship Co.'s coastal steamer Xgapuhi was on fire. The message to the station came via telephone.

I A further complaint of stock being damaged during transit on the railway has come before the executive of the I Kaipara sub-provincial district of the i Farmers' Union, adding to frequent comi plaints by farmers of damage to stock i through careless or unnecessary ehunt- | ing. In this instance the complaint is i lodged by Mr. H. Trewin, the particulars I being that one of a truck of cattle which j travelled from Helensville to Westfield I was down at Henderson, and dead at the destination. A feature of the particulars is the reference to the fact that all the cattle were dehorned. The matter has been referred to the Auckland office of the department with a request that it be made an urgent subject for consideration.

"There is no magic to wipe out the effects of the great war," said Mr. Ja3S. Alexander, president of the National Bank of Commerce, New York, at the annual meeting of shareholders. He added: "That can be done only by hard work, efficiency, and economy. These have been a great source of safety in the year just closed, and are requisite for success in the year that lies ahead." While acknowledging that sufficient taxes must be raised to meet the nation's heavy war obligations, Mr. Alexander said: "Business should assert its rights to unceasing economy in , lblie expenditure, and to further adjustments of taxation to reduce to a minimum its hampering effect on productive effort. The interests of labour are absolutely identical with the interests of business and the public, in that they will make for stability of employment and lower cost of living."

Ways and means of affording relief to unemployed returned soldiers were di-scussed at a meeting of members of the Wellington Returned Soldier*' Association held on Monday evening. Mr. G. Mitchell, M.P., who occupied the ohair, said that all returned soldiers wcr<" anxious that their unemployed comrades should secure work. It had been stated that about one hundred ex-service men were out of employment. After discussion it wae decided that all present should form a deputation to the Prime Minister in order to ascertain what was being done by the Government to relieve unemployment so far as returned eoldiers were concerned. It was decided to urge that preference should be given above all to ex-service men; that immediate relief should be provided for partially incapacitated m«T»; that, money be raised by the G-o-vernment so that the whole question of unemployment could be dealt with; and that a commiesion be set up immediately to consider the unemployment problem, to take evidence, and furnieh a report to Parliament next session. The meeting resolved that the deputation should be led by Mr. Mitchell.

Returned soldiers awaiting employment throughout the Dominion at January 31, 1922, numbered 277. The return prepared by the Repatriation Department for the period to January 31 showed that unemployment sustenance (soldier £2 2/, wife 15/, each child 2/6 per week) had been paid in 113 cases of hardship. Men who had been receiving training had made excellent progress. The number who had completed their couree and had been absorbed in various industries was 0.417. The work of the training branch wae fast drawing to a close. Soldiers had been established in 150 different classes of business, and the repatriation scheme had been the means of starting seme thousands of men on the road to a successful business career. Out of £1,777,464 advanced in loans to soldiers, the amount collected at December 31. 1921, by way of repayments totalled £848.646. The monthly collections had amounted by January 31 to almost double the monthly expenditure, the figures for the last three months being: Repayments, £106,781; expenditure, £56.020. 'Of the 19,&49 loans granted, 2,727 had already been entirely repaid.

The biggest locomotive in the world recently hauled the longest train ever made up—more than a mile in lengthover the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains, from Princeton, West Virginia, to Roanoke. Virginia, for the Virginia Railway. The locomotive a.nd ten der weighed 449 tons and measured approximately 125 feet in length. The train was composed of 100 cars, each of which weighed 40 tons and measured r>li feet. The load carried by each car represented 120 tons of coal, making the total weight pulled by the engine approximately 16,000 tons.

Negotiations have been practically completed for the taking over of the Xorth Auckland Co-operative Lime Company, which has work? at Waikiekie. adjoining the railway, by the farming interest? of the Whangarei district The matter is one of some moment to agriculturists and pastoraliste. as an inexhaustible supply of lime for their purposes is available at this point.

At the Jersey Cattle Club dinner at Dargaville, Mr. Roland Hill, the wellknown Jersey breeder, of Tangihua, spoke strongly and humorously against the Agricultural Department having issued a map upon which the whole of Xorth Auckland was painted black because it wa< a tick-infefted area. He had put ticks on his own tender hide and could not feel their bites. He thought the politics of New Zealand were, cursed by Southern politicians. As for himself, he would rather be "a Jersey i bull in the North with ticks all over hi* belly than an Ayrshire bull in the. South with snow on his 'back." |

"You fee, your Honor, there were two of us after her," explained the petitioner in a divorce ease to Mr. Justice Fim in the Supreme Court at Invercargill. 'Her parents wanted mc, and she wanted my I was the un-

The position at the Foresters' Hall, Takapuiia, is unchanged since a storming party from the District Court took possession of the building on Saturday, except that the garrison of occupation has apparently been reduced to skeleton numbers. Court Takapuna is, however, not proposing to resign itself unresistingly to force majeure, but is applying to the Supreme Court for an injunction restraining the ejectment until the matters in dispute between the District Court and Court Takapuna can be heard and determined by a tribunal appointed under the rules of the Foresters' constitution. It is understood that prior to the ejectment taking place the Takapuna Court had sijmified its intention of appealing to the tribunals of the order against the district executive.

The manager of the Lvtterton Abattoir, Mr. William Wright, had a remarkably narrow escape from death on Monday evening. Mr. Wright, who is interested in pig breeding, was passing through a paddock where there were a number of sows and also a large boar weighing about scwt. He was savagely attacked by the boar, which knocked him down and with its long tusks rent deep gashes in one of hie legs from the calf to the hip, and then worried him as he lay helpless on the ground. Strange to say. the -boar .afterwards walked away of its own accord. Mr. Wright was brought into the Lyttelton casualty ward in a very exhausted condition through lose of blood. An operation was performed and a number of etitches ineerted, and the patient is now progressing as well as can be expected. Three men armed with pea rifles endeavoured to shoot the boar, but appeared to make no impression, as the bullets seemed to glance off hie hide. However, two shots fired from a .303 rifle finished the job.

There was something or the true Oxford ring about a statement made in Pitt Street Methodist Church by Rev. Grainger Hargreaves, of the "Wesleyan Methodist Church of Great Britain, -when he said that sin did not originate in the Garden of Eden as was thought hy many. People had for generations blamed Eve for Adam'e fall, and with Adam the whole of mankind. But he would hke them to take their minds further back than that and to think of this world ac part only of God's great universe, natural and spiritual. There had been superior creations to man long before the latter was created, and there had been sin amongst them as to who would be the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. They wen ted to think of the myriads of good and evil spirits which were in the spiritual realm .and the question they wanted to get back to was, "Who tempted Eve!" He felt sure that hi* lady hearers would be glad to hear him say that the woman in the Garden of Eden did not create sin, any more than that the Redemption wa3 commenced at Calvary. Redemption's plan was created long before the foundation of the world, and the inspired words of the book of Revelation proved this.

Up to January 31 laet the total advances made to soldiers through the Lands and Repatriation Departments totalled £28,539,291. So far as the Lands Department was concerned the loan losses through forfeitures and foreclosures amounted to £6,365; postponements of rent and interest (after deduction of £20/52 repaid) to £169,715; remissions of aue's to £14,216; arrears to £610,065; and capitalisations of rent and interest to £8,883. Monthly repayments of loans made by the Repatriation Department now amount to about double the monthly expenditure of that Department upon soldiers.

In the Timara Pelice Court yesterday, Walter Garwood Purchase, clerk of the Court at Temtfka, pleaded guilty to charges of fraudulently converting to his own use 1"/, a fine, and 20/, a plaint fee, paid to him. In reply to the charge, the accused said his wife had died recently, leaving three children. He was short of money, and took the sums, meaning to return them. He was fined £10 on each carge, with costs, making a total of £27.

A farmer residing at Puriri, JMr. John Brunton, married, aged 50, fell dead at Omahu yesterday. He was a returned soldier and had 'been seriously wounded.

At Dunedin yesterday a 'bankrupt salesman, Edwin Greeton Mackenzie, who failed to attend a meeting of creditors last week, was fined in the Supreme Court £10 for contempt of Court, in default three months , imprisonment.

While on a visit to Tβ Aroha this week Sir William Herries stated that it is probable the Waihi-Athenree section of railway would be completed within a year.

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