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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 193, 16 August 1922, Page 4

"There is no reason why this Court should be any more lax in its proceedings than any other Court," remarked -Mr. V. G. Day, S.M., at the Assessment Court this morning, when a number or" applications for the reinstatement of objections that had been struck out yesterday, owing to non-appearance, were made. He pointed out that half an hour's grace was given yesterday before any cases were struck out, and the list was called over again in the afternoon. One solicitor stated that his client did not receive a notice. Mr. Day explained that under the Act all that was necessary was to insert an advertisement in the newspapers, but the Valuer-General went further and sent a notice giving the place, date and time of the sitting of the Court. If every person whose case was struck out applied for reinstatement the Court would be here indefinitely. Every taxpayer had the right to apply under section 36 for a special valuation. The cases would have to remain struck out. Xcws has just reached us from a thoroughly reliable source (says the "Manawatu Daily Times") concerning new developments in the flax industry which could not have been more opportune. The market is low and millers are not optimistic; but we are assured that owing to quite a new discovery in the manufacture of high-grade paper It is now possible to eliminate the brown stain which hitherto has confined the use of the Xow Zealand tlax to the making of wrapping paper and mill board. This discovery has opened up the prospect of using the produce of about nine thousand acres of growing flax in the immediate future. It is now possible that paper of higher grades will come from this source. Even for wrapping paper, tow, stripper slips, and waste have been profitably used; but this will make it possible to substitute flax fibre for almost all other products now used for paper-making. The value of Little Queen Street property was discussed at the Auckland Assessment Court this morning. A witness stated that tho Court had been told on the previous day that it was the number of people who passed that jrave city property its value, but only about ten went along Little Queen Street to every hundred that used Queen Street. Further, owners of property in Little Queen Street were put to extra expense in constructing buildings on this reclaimed land, because they had to excavate from 17ft to 34ft to put in foundations and make them watertight. This cost £4000 in one instance, and'tho Court should take this matter into consideration. The chnrrman, Mr. V. G. Day, said that in cases like this it was customary to allow something ofT the unimproved value. The Court eventually allowed f-5 a foot for the bad ground iii three cases, making the land valuation £200 a foot. A conference of Choral 'Societies is to be held in Wellington shortly. Some of the subjects proposed for discussion are: Tin , amusement tax, hire and purchase of music, introduction of members from one society to another, musical reciprocity, concert dates, soloists, membership snbscript ions, music in schools, an<l adoption of the official organ of Xoc Zealand ( horal Societies. It is hoped that much good may be derived from the conference, as it. is"folt that closer co-ordination is required to put societies on a proper footing. What appears to have been a case ol horse-thieving occurred at Leahy's Estate, Lakeside, la?-t Thursday nigiit 'writes the Jvllesmcre correspondent oi the Christehurch "'Pre3s"). lour draught horses i two mares and two geldings) were mU«ed on Friday morning. -Mr. Leahy thought the animals had broken out and strayed away, but nn Monday morning one of the miosing horses turned up with a tag on its tail bearing the number 7. The inference is that the horses were taken and sold at auction nut of the district, and that tho one which returned had found an open gate and left its new owner. The police have the matter in hand.

He was a large gentleman, rather over middle age, and he made a most comi loruible picture as he slept soundly on, his face resting on the palm nf his hand, at the meeting of the Auckland Hospital Board last night. Evidently he had experienced an arduous day's toil, for i not once did he siir from hi* attitude of j repose during the transaction of busi- i ness. It was the loud laughter of his fellow-members which finally stirred ' him when the meeting had concluded. i Then he woke with a start, and, still i J half in dreamland, denied that he had j j slept, after the manner we all have in ! such circumstances. However, he even- j I tually admitted, under pressure, that he I had "dozed off," but he resented the I appellation of "The Sleeping Beauty." 1 "I am no beauty," he declared, and ! vigorously declined to consider an offer ! to play the part of Joe, the fat boy in . "Pickwick Papers,' , which members I undertook to have staged for his special I benefit if he so desired. ' The initial annual meeting of the ■ shareholders of the East Tamaki Co- | i operative Dairy Company was held on | j Monday night,"when Mr.'F. H. Leonard ; I presided over an attendance of about 35 j 'suppliers. In a review of the year's j i operations, the chairman stated that the j company had paid in cash to its suppliers slightly over 1/4 per I*. for but- . ter fat. The company was able to i I double the size of its building and plant ! I without calling on the suppliers to ad- j j vance any further capital. Mr. Leonard . I said thai the company had justified its j ! inception fifteen months ago, and had I proved the right of a small company to , exist for the benefit of its members, and ! ' for the administration of its own local j affairs. The new butter factory, which ; ! is being erected to enable the company i j to manufacture its own product at East Tamaki, will commence operations next I week. i In Timaru a few days ago (relates th« "Post") a lady, whilst on her way to do I some shopping, dropped her purse, containin" a considerable sum of money in silver and notes. Hubby, with the peSsi- | inism of one whose occupation had t ' brought him to rvgard everyone as a j j would-be thief until he is proven honest, j • told her to forget about the loss—she ■ • would certainly never see her money or ' purse again. " However, granting that there might possibly be a. few honest I people about he placed an advertisement | J of the loss in the local papere. Before ; j the advertisement had time to appear, j I however, a young man called at the j J house and informed the lady that h«r | ' purse was waiting for her at the police I station. He had found the purse, taken i it straight to the police, where the con- : tents wvre investigated, and an address I ! discovered, and had then gone straight ■ i to the address to acquaint the owner with the whereabouts of her lost property. The lady immediately offered the i man £1 as a reward, but he quietly refused. "You need the money more than I do. You are married and I am single," h\; said. In February, 1922, the Valuer-General was appoin'ed to inquire into th«" financial difficulties of dairy farmers in different parts of New Zealand, and, inter alia, to mediate as onnnrtunii i< ,4 occurred, said Mr. Massey in his Finan- | cial Statement. He acted in the capai city of intermediary in cases where there appeared to be possibilities of effecting satisfactory arrangements by the mutual consent, of mortgagees and ; I mortgagors. In sixty-nine cases mort- i; ■ gagees were induced to grant more or | less substantial measures of relief to I mortgagors who were unable to fulfil their" obligations. The nature and extent of the relief varied considerably. In some cases mortgagees wrote off arrears of interest wholly or in part, or I reduced the rates of interest. In othrr ' cases mortgagees surrendered the whole or portion of the principal sums of the j mortgages where these sums represented i balances of unpaid purchase moneys. In ' a case where three mori dances arc in- | terested in the Eame property the total j I principal sums surrendered amounted ; to £15,000, and the total arrears of I interest written off amounted to £1287. | Undoubtedly the success attained through mediation has had the effect of ■ inducing a very large number of mortgagees to grant relief to mortgagors. When giving evidence at an inquest held at Wanganui in connection with the death of R. H. 'Williams, the Collegiate i School boy, who died as the outcome I of an accident while playing in a football , match at Waverley, Dr. A. AVilson de- ( scribed the deceased's injuries, which con- i sisted of a fractured spine, and said j that he only knew of two similar acci- j dents. One occurred in Wellington: ! the other was the case of Armit. tlie | Utago player, who received fatal injuries | ; in a match against Taranaki in 1890. , j The coroner, Mr. Burton, S.M., said that! i he knew of a similar accident on the I i fo:.'tball field at Auckland many years ', iago. " ' j The Auckland Provincial Industrial ' Association ha s announced the results . of tho primary schools' essay competition held in connection with tlie recent ; Winter Show. The subject of the essay ! was "The Exhibit I Liked Best, ana , Why," the exhibit being confined to that j of a secondary industry. The prizes j donated by the Association are awarded j as follows: —Ka-Ihloen Hunt. Pah Road.; Royal Oak. 1: Catherine Weir. Taka- ] puna School. 2: Xancy Whyte. Trafal- j gar Street. Royal Oak, .'!; Pearl Carter,! I Rnthesav Street. Remucra, 4; Unice Wilson, Taka puna School, 5. A reserved judgment was given Tiy Mr. | J. F.. Wilson, S.M.. at the MajristrnteV Court, which resulted in the plaintiff winning fivepenee more than the dp-1 fendant. The plaintiff. F. V. Raymond.! was allowed £5 :?.'(>. and the defendant,; M. G. LcTUiard. £."> 3/1. ,Xo costs were ' allowed cither party. Six professors and others from Towa ; • University, who have been spending a . long vacation in New Zealand, left on ! ' thi'ir return to America yesterday I *ays a l'rnfs Association telegram). They i • took hack with thorn a good stock of : I botanical, geological and ontomolosieal ; i specimens. They spoke in high terms of ; their visit, particularly of Xew Zealand's , I splendid scenery. Sonic of the party got j as far as Fran?. Josef glacier, and .ire luud in their praise c.f the magnificent i bush scenery they saw en route. i I T!:<- R.-v f. W. Ki-mii wn» in RM,>n<fan.«-! at Auckland Baptist Tabernacle from 10 joVlocU tiii- morning to receive offering. ■■ J thi- bi'ins; i ■>■• th-.iiiksg-iving day of ii,at, i f'i;rrrli. The mininiim aimed :>.t is £300, which i> required to cover ' amounts expended or needed for neoesohnrch. Tin-; evening tlio annual nifvt- ■ inn of church members is to ho held, which is also thp second anniversary of the settlement of Mr. Kemp at the Tabernacle. The school entertainment arranged by the Papatoetoc Prfiool Committee r>- ;- suited in £2.") not being secured. This j will be expended in a Aid nutit and improvements in conncctiun with the school grounds. The Chief Post Office advine that tho Pnlnona left Melbourne at :> p.m. on Saturday for Wellington with eight bigs J of Australian mail for Auckland. This l ihjould arrive here on the lDth inst. i

Mr. W. R. MeKean. S.M., had to deal with a claun made b y the Waotu Tim'Sr Company and J. A. Xoonan (Mr Biep. nacki) against J. f. Long (Mr. Monro!" :to recover £37 li/U, alu-ged to be due as .money received by defendant for certain ; sharesi stated to have b,.. n transferred £ him by plaintiff by mistake TheY fence was that plaintiff had no caus- 5 action in the Magistrate's Court. ThS , was unheld by Mr. MeKean. who „£ j plaintiff with costs. twelve -^ r -° Ili son of the R e 7. a )I la L r ,'- ° f , KllerSlie ' wai admitted to fhe public hospital suffering f rom a severe fracture of the thigh bone of the right leg. The lad was kicking a ball before school when by accident ?£ boys fell on top of him. with the result stated. Dr. Thompson, of Parnell was promptly in attendance, bandaged the leg and telephoned for the ambulance. -Mr Squire, headmaster of EUerslJa School, rend-ered first aid. I -Mr. D. L. A. Asthury, who has heea I chosen to contest tlie Egmont seat In ! 1 arhament against Mr. O. Hawken has contested a seat on five previous occasions without success. He is a very fi ne speaker and a good eampaisner. but ha, on every occasion failed to get the requi site number of votes that would allow I him to sit as a member of Parliament i Ihe Egmont seat was held by Sir Thomaa I Mackenzie for a brief period prior to his ; going Home as High Commissioner, £ ; having defeated -Mr. Bradahaw Dive wh« is now Mayor of Tauranga Uter Sir Thomas resigned Mr. f. A. Wilkinson , held the seat for about five years, and I was chairman of the Industries Commit- . tee which visited all parts of the Domi|mon and produced a valuable report which was laid on the table of the House. The recent depredatory visits of a number of undesirables from "the other side" has come forcibly under publinotice lately. "I will have to impose a sentence to show these criminals in Australia that New Zealand cannot be ! taken as a happy hunting ground for I them," said his Honor Mr. Justice i Stringer to-day in sentencing a man to j twelve months' imprisonment for l alleged business venture frauds. His Honor added that criminals must not think they could come over here and raid upon the business and other unsusI pecting people. The next prisoner was I also an Australian found guilty of fraud, and his Honor said: "t "must I treat him as I treated the other \usI tralian gentleman and give him twelve months." By the acceptance of a tender by the Xewmarket Borough C'oun.'il pracI tically the last stage in the concreting of the main road between the <itv and Onehunga has been reached. For the work four tenders were received the lowest, that of Messrs. H. Bray and Co., at £4149 being accepted. The contract provides for the paving in concrete of the present unpaved portions of Manukau Road, 'between the Parnell boundary at the Jubilee Institute for the Blind and the Epsom library. Some work on a short section of Remuera Road is also included in the contract. The work, which will occupy about two ! months, is to 'be commenced about the end of the present month. A good deal of interest was shown in , Queen Street yesterdfey, when twelve J jurymen, in charge of two stalwart police- | men, were marched along to a restaurant, I where they were provided with luncheon. They were out considering their verdict when the lunch hour arrived, and no one was allowed to interview them till they had come to a decision on the case. The unusual spectacle in the b::sy street caused a good few to turn around and ask what had happened. The deputation of Stanley Bay residents who waited on the Ferry Company lately, asking for an improvement in the time-table, has been given to under- | stand that as soon as arrangements can j be made the extra boats asked for will be J put on. At the present time there are ' ■ only four direct boats from the city to I Stanley Bay between the hours of 5.30 a.m. and 5 p.m. It is hoped that the Ferry Company will see its way to double this number. Some under-cutting is being done in coastal cargo freights. The Glaueus, a vesel owned in Melbourne, which i» . usually engaged in the Islands phosj phates trade, is at present carrying i general cargo between Canterbury "and i Auckland. Its rates arc 4/ per ton • below ruling charges. To meet this I competition the Union Company has I reduced the nr.e vi freigln on thu I Kakapo by 4/ per ton. I The Bay of Plenty Development League and the Tauranga Chamber of ' Commerce passed resolutions urging ! the Government to adopt the contract ! system in connection with railway ! works. The Hon. .J. G. Coates. Minister of Public Works, writes in reply:— ' '"I have to advise that it has now been .decided to call for tenders for that I length of line between Tuapiro and ! Tauranga. and for this purpose plans ■ and specifications will shortly be put i in hand." ! The judicial mind is e«?rntinlly versa- ; tile. Thus our judges in om , s-eai-ioii ; deal with criminal business or U-cume ■ engulfed in the hitrk-acii-s uf civii pro- ' ccdurc. Mr. Justice Ilcrdman commenced in the lutu-r tphrn- a; tinpresent Auckland M-fsior.s w.tli a grazing contract case, involving the fato of v I herd of calves. In stumming up. l>is Honor said the jury would liiiM. , to I decide whether the cattle, iim-i-i ng of I bulls, heifers ami steer!*, h.nl l..vn .-« j fed or "geared up" a~ to l>o able to ■ withstand the wintering im-io-ril. or I whether as a iiukvt of fji'-t ■■•M?p i cattle were not long fur this world." ; Were these ralves -o ih-bilitatc.!. in siicli j ill-health, ami .-o unable t.i liur-t she ; rich liv.-ii gras-e.s as uwrml l>v , defendants? "We have had soini- evidence." his Honor proceeded. ':■> the I effect that the linings of the iof naturally fp,| va\\;-s w .>iv ii-:i.illv . half an inch thicker in cliani-nT iV , something— " A burst uf '.iii_'!»:*T from tho Court drowned the b.-i-uive nf the judge's iciiKirk*. ami w;s- -t'l.-i-c-l when the cii.-tudiuii ha.l snili, V.-.iiy i enjoyed the fragrant I'lm-idali.-:) \n be able, to deliver tiic •.α-ma! -; ;,,fM order. "S.lni.'p." Having LTjvfulh , irali-fiTrcil the ro-p..i).-i:.\> _. ■. < ,',{ possibilities ami prijl>:ihi:ii":f> c ■>:.- -niinj 1 the ill-fated mixed llol~t.-in ■K-γ-. iicrl ; which dlcuppeured wimlly ( .i t'rtiall* 'iv the wood- ami n\en» \>S •! ■■' 11 „': ki lxi-h that abuts the lii-ti.ri'.'-.r..' v.id ! I'rewrra country, iii- 1! , r [...,,],.,; j,,,.;^ : appreciatively for the net .••'-.'. ',v:,\.-U, lo and boliohi: nir:tin -ip,-,,-.. ~ \ ~.v J and cowsheds. With 'the >.:'.. --ui.-iit co-operation of tln> jury |.'. li:,.r istill engaged with due diiru'M vw'-'i nu , facts and eiroumstances beiiv.ius. , -••■.i important subjects. The number of chiMron £:<"> " t-i '■■•'' 713 *choo:-i in t!u- An-.'klaiiJ d:-ir.v-: - 01.217. uh:.-h is HIU ;■•,,, iV (hiiii '.: •'■ - time la,l year. Dunn- th • ;.a-; r:.i::-: the average .utemlan-f wa-i .Vi.-"7-">. : ' averagf ilaily tiiil- i'--:>-r>-r r>s-ij. The girl- on tho *.-liooi i-■...- ■■"!■• number the boys by 2053.