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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 192, 15 August 1925, Page 8

The steamer Maheno. according to advice received by the Post Office, left Sydney for Auckland at 5 p.m. yesterday and brings 346 bags of mail and 43 bags of parcels for Auckland from Australia and beyond. Raffles is a-subject dealt with in the annual report of the Department of Internal Affairs, which says that the conditions under which licenses to raffle are granted provide that only the articles specified are to be raffled, and that there must be no substitution of other prizes or payment in cash. Certain cases have, however, come under notice in which advertisements have been placed on the tickets in which private firms offer to give to the winner a motor car, suite of furniture, etc., for the prizes indicated on the tickets. To prevent any evasion of the Act, a condition is now inserted in the license that no advertisements will •be permitted on any part (back or front) of the tickets, or any part of the book of tickets.

i During the year ended March 31 last, I 1821 films, of a total length of 4,692,440 I feet, were censored by the Government , Censor. Of this number, 32 were rejected ' wholly, 10S passed subject to excisions, and 11 passed for adult audiences only! Five appeals were lodged against the . uerision of the censor in regard to the rejected films. In three instances the Appeal Board upheld the censor's decision, and in two cases the appeals were allowed, subject to an excision in one fl in_-

"Aw! You haven't been outside Tuakau." The remark was made with a strongly nasal accent; and was overheard by a score or so of Aueklanders on a Ponsonby tram, who were listening to an argumentative talk between a couple of merry "Jackies." One of the sailor boys strenuously claimed acquaintanceship' with the conductor, and the other was equally determined to press his rival claim. At last the formerout of patience with his pal, with an accent that would do credit to any New Zealander, that he had ne%er been outside of Tuakau.

The Waitemata County Lotmc.l held a special meeting yesterday to consider the position of the great loss of «"■_»£ the council occasioned by the acquisition by the City Council of property in the county for watershed purposes the chairman, Mr. F. W. Grigg, tba under statutory provision these lands were exempt from rating, and the Waite mata County Council is expected to maintain many miles of roads to the West Coast without receiving any revenue for the purpose while it was stated that the profits of the Auckland City Council on the sale of water amounted to £90,000. He thought that the City Council should exercise a moral obligation in the matter even if they had not a legal one. It was explained to the meeting by Councillor O'Halhrfan that Messrs Farley and others had presented a petition to Parliament, praying that the law be amended to provide for the rating of these lands, and that the petition would shortly be heard before a Parliamentary Committee. After discussion it was * resolved that the council appoint the chairman, Councillor Laing, and the county engineer (Mr. G. A; Jackson) to proceed to Wellington to give evidence before the committee.

Whatever nuisance the storm of Wednesday and Thursday and the heavy winds yesterday might have caused to the sailors in getting to and from their ships it was never quite gusty enough to shift their little white caps. But Aueklanders fared rather worse with their headgear, and it is safe to say that a score of these were rescued for their owners by the "Jackies" on the streets, it was one of those gusty times that always disturbs a man's confidence in the" security of his hat; and from the sight of a young lady with chestnut tresses, chasing along Albert street on Thursday, after her fugitive hat as it sailed along on the brim, Auckland girls can hardly have escaped the same embarrassment. BBut a couple of sailors came to the young lady's assistance and trapped the hat in the height of its flight.

At a special meeting of the Waitemata County Council yesterday, it was reported that section 40 of the Counties Amendment Act, now before Parliament, proposed to repeal section 131, subsection 3, of the Municipal Corporations Act, which provides that separate accounts of the county fund shall be kept of each riding of the county, showing the amount apportioned to it, and the amount actually expended on the works in the riding in each year, and that all such accounts shonld'bei audited by the Government Audit Office. It was reported to the council that this amendment had been sought by the Counties Association to get over the difficulty which now existed, making the councillors subject to a surcharge when they exceeded the expenditure allowed in any particular riding. The' Waitemata County Council reviewed the position with alarm, and decided to forward a protest to Wellington accordingly through its representatives, and also to suggest that as an alternative the statute be amended to provide that where a riding exceeds its financial limit of expenditure, it should not be subject to the penalties imposed by the Finance Act.

At the Otahuhu Borough Council meeting last night strong comment was expressed at the action" of the Telegraph Department in breaking the newly-tarred footpath in Station Road for the purpose of laying a cable. The Deputymayor (Mr T. Clements), who presided, stated that the Department was informed of the council's intention to commence the new work, thereby obviating any risk of the finished paths being broken, and received the reply that no work on the part of the Department was contemplated The Council lias been unfortunate with Station Road, having both paths broken after completion, the first break occurring when the Gas Company laid a main. With a view- of forcibly protesting against the action of the Department, it was resolved to circularise local bodies of the occurrence soliciting a united protest. ' Thirty-two fat sheep were killed in a railway accident at Burnside, Dunedin, on Tuesday night. A line of sheep-laden wagons was being shunted in for the sale. Through a mistake at the points, three trucks left the rails, and fell- over on their sides. That was about 10.30 p.m. Immediately the , railway staff, assisted by stockmen, commenced the work of separating the dead sheep from the living. It was a difficult job. Using crowbars, the men knocked the ends out of the wagons, and liberated the terrified animals. Thirty-two of them were dead. The trucks were more or less da naged.

"When we first arrived we got a somewhat cool reception and were looked upon as curious rather than as friends Now, however, we are beginning to understand the Auckland* people and I guess that when the time comes for us to say good-bye, we shall be real sorry to go. But the people of Auckland take a deal of knowing-." Thus did a officer from one of the visiting warship's express his opinions this morning, when asked if he was enjoying his itay in

n i?! nS QM c showing that, even in the United States of America, interest is shown m electrical activities of this Dominion, is given by Mr. F. H. Claxton (chairman of the Thames Valley Electric Power Board), who states that when in Wellington last week he had a conversa" tion with the Consul-General for USA who stated that he had received a request from America to make inquiries regarding the supply of electricitX the farming community of the Dominion Early on Monday morning, says the Cnnstchurch "Press," Mr. R. j ard ce n e who resides at Hills Road, near Heat": cote Valley, together with the memlentl ° f „' h * had tHeir it Toently disturbed by a large stone crashmg through a shed at the back of the KnnTand%?° USe •" nnSe" the lull, and the arrival of th* «t<™,, was the preliminary to the faL large slip, which burst in the back door 0 / the -o-S Slushy clay a foot deep. The snoil has r_rsr ~m, * ,A "»»StS England, it ™ s Xtnd th"t t£ <r ° m going on to , , am iTsWntT Sh r _3?_ _; «