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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 89, 15 April 1922, Page 6

A short sitting oi the War Pensions' Board, 'lo last about a fortnight, opened i in the 'Magistrate's Court to-day. About 400 cm-OS are to he heard. The personnel of the board is Mr. 11. G. A. Cooper, I S.M.. chairman: Mr. G. {'. Kavhe, Com-I missioner of Pensions: Dr. A. \V. Izard •and "Mr. -1. T). Harper, representative j for the Returned Soldiers Association, i In going through its lists recently the! Hospital Board found that probably the! oldotst person who needed assistance was' one who had been on the books for a long time and was just on a hundred years I old. It was found out. too, that the old ' body sfnll enjoyed some of the pleasures I of lif..- usually associated with much j young ( cr people, and the hoard found | much, pleasure in granting an extension! of h-*r allowance. j ! At the meeting of the Whangarei Comity Council the chairman said pro vision of the new Financial Act left ' ttiem in a hole, and it was necessary to i.-ealise that no overdraft could he contemplated for the end of March, ]()_:>. j Antecedent liability this year was £2950, and separate loan accounts Mere . in cn-tlii £41180. The Legislature made no provision for these accounts in arriv- • ing at tin- antecedent liabilities. He j thought the position serious as they, 'must now make provision to liquidate! the riding debits in the estimates, or be held liable for the excess indebtedness atj March 31. 1022. Riding members expressed despair nt the nrosneet of get-, ting works done in their districts this year with these liabilities to face. • A further wool sale will be held at i Auckland on Tuesday. May 16. The sal. 1 ! will be held in the Town Hall concert i chamber, starting at 10 a.m.. and the catalogues for the sale will close on | May 10. 1 At a mooting of the Stanley Day Hall I fund Committee it was drr-ided to hold: a gipsy camp evening at Stanley Ray on :■ Monday, April 17. in aid of the hall . i funds. i

The usual quiet of some parts of Devonport was rudely disturbed by a band of marauders on Thursday night. '' Much Hinging was indulged in, and a n score or two of gates were taken from t, their hinges. In many cases gates were carried long distances away. The silly I nonsense caused a good deal of distress iin homes where the owner of the place '-1 was away on holiday for the week-end, rj and had left, only tho women folk at 1 1 home. In one case a front garden was I stacked with gates taken froru other pro- '" perties, and a lot of annoyance caused. A collision took place at noon yestcrd day between two motor ears at the corn ncr of Dominion and Grange Roads. c Fortunately both ears were travelling at a moderate speed, and the impact was fairly slight. The drivers were Mr. A. °l Chambers, of Dominion Road, and Mr. i, Francis Taylor, of (Ireitt South Road, i s | Remuera. The machines were only slightly damaged. n A Xew Zealand lady who has been I .; living in the North of Ireland for some] '; months recently cabled out, "Can stand ! s ,it no longer, sailing next direct boat." i c Letters just received from her state that s the winter in Ireland from a weather' .j point of view has been a most delightful one. and hut for the outrages that arc r taking place, Ireland is a lovely country p to spend a long holiday in. Many of the V people she says, know nothing of affairs a outside their own country and lead a a simple unassuming life which makes '• them an easy prey to those who would >' inflame their minds with stories of inn justice. I Consent has been given to the raising g of the following local body loans: — Dunedin City vCounoiJ, hydro-electrical purposes, £200,000; Tauranga Borough • Council, completing electrical installation, _12,.>00: Whakatane Borough r Council, installing high pressure water [j supply system. £15.000; Whakatane , Borough Council, electric power plant a supplementary loan, £6500: Kanrak: r Plains Count}' Council, purchasing land, erecting and furnishing county office. . purchasing machinery, £10,000; Tamaki , West Road Board, for electricity purpose:., £01)00; Hobson County Council, drainage works in Kailm Valley, £tiOOO. Orders-in-Council gazetted prescribe increased maximum rate* of interest i for local body loans as follows:—One I Tree Hill Road Board. CoO.OOO for road j I improvements at £6 10/.1 per cent: In- < ven-argill Borough Council. loans _ totalling £76.300 for electrical works, tramways, ami reclamation. 0} per cent; Palmerston North Borough Council.) 1 £10,iioo for road improvements andi storm water drainage at (Si per cent; Palmerston North Borough Council, ' fll.ViO for _„„;,.;-„ l _,:_;-_, „„,i I

tii.o.Hi ior municipal buildings and ' puhlio library, (ii per cent. "• "While proceeding up Symonds Street in > his motor car Mr. Herbert Vaudrey met 1 with a painful accident on Thursday ( evening, and had to !,e admitted to the Hospital siiiYoriiig from a fractured arm. - One of the tyres of the machine hurst. |.md while engaged effecting repairs on , the side of the road he was" struck by a I passing vehicle and thrown against his car, with the result that he suffered a - broken arm. When two men were crossing: Park . Road. 'Jrafton. last evening- a motor ear . was noticed approaching. The men hesitated for a moment, and then moved towards the side path. The driver was : unable, however, to avoid a collision. One of the pedestrians was struck in the . back and knocked over. The car pulled up and went to the assistance of the. men. both of whom bad fallen, but no assistance was neeessurv. At. a meeting held in the Town Hall Concert Chamber and presided over by .Mrs. .J. If. Cunson on Thursday affcer.iioon. 10 arrange details for the'sale of •.artificial poppies made in France, to he t .worn on Anzac Day, it was stated that ( I '_.") per cent of the proveeda would go to I the widows and children of France and .the remainder for the relief of unem- , | ployed returned soldiers in this city. 'Collectors would be pleased to receive , I coins of less than 1/. but nothing less . I than 1/ would purchase a wmall poppy, land -1.1 a large one. St-all positions were allotted for city and suburbs and it was I arranged to hold another meeting next . | Tuesday morning. Mt. Eden arrango|ments will be discussed at. a meeting |to bo held in the Mt. Eden Borough | Council Chambers on Wednesday eveni ing. | Mr. .1. W. roynton. P.M.. gave decision at the Magistrates Court „n Thursday attcrnoon m a claim brought by .lame's •if. Oavies (Mr. R. K. N. Matthews! agamsi rhomas Kirkwood, mi aboriginal ; native (M r . ./. |.-. yv, ui( .ksoul to recover ■ iiO money but. Judgment went for I plaintifl fur U24 with costs. | Smokers are subject to rather strict rules on the Perth trameare. They can I light up on week days from v" a.m. to !» a.m.. from noon to 2 p.m.. and again i from o p.m. to 7 p.m. On Saturdays I tho smoking hours are fi a.m. to 0 a.m. ' ami noon to i p.m. On Sundays tobacco is forbidden altogether. | The annual election of officers of the J Navy League for the ensuing year will I take place shortly. .Nominations (closj ing Monday. May 1) are invited for the positions of president, chairman, lion see rotary lion treasurer and 12 lady and 12 I gentlemen members of committer-. j Professor \V. T. Goodo. M.A.. will lee- , ture on Sunday evening in the Strand Picture Theatre, his subject being "Bolsheviki Policy Described and Criticised' | Its Successes. Failures, and Lessons, and j Russia's relation to the reef ~f the! j World." The chair will he taken hv Mr. 0. Meßrine. ' | I Mr. Edward Donaldson, the power- I ; house employee who was injured on ' iuesday evening as ihe result of material j I falling on him. is reported to be making j a rapid recovery. c j Tt is announced by the Press Association that at the examination for piemen-' tary kindergarten certifications held in I I November, 1921. and January, lfl_> Mi, I Frances Phoebe Holland, of Christchureh obtained a complete pass, and Miss S." Ewcn. of Auckland, a partial pass.

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