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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 134, 8 June 1926, Page 8

A unique exhibit which will figare.ii'. 1 the Franklin Court at the Auddanff \Vinter Show, which will be opened'to?j morrow, is a model of a timber sledge made by Tuliapi, a well-known natira in tlie Pukekohe district. Constructed from white pine timber the body o! the sledge is beatitifully carved, bnitj more remarkable still arc the tracej,i eight feet in length. Each link is to the next one, all having been caned out of a single white pine board. The 1 exhibit is a beautiful sample of catiTi carving, an art that is being Jbgt'ift' modern times. To see the miniatiffij' sledge with' its equipment is to marvel at the time and patience that must lavi been employed in preparing it. , ~

The following resolution was carried unanimously at a meeting of the Anck*. land Total Abstinence Society held last evening strongly protesting against 'ftaj action of the City Licensing Committed in granting a license to sell intoxicating liquor on the waterfront. This society; is of opinion that the action of'a majority of the committee is opposed to the best interests of the commitaity, is in defiance of the will of the electors) and constitutes an abuse of public con-j fidence which demands that those.'responsible shall amply justify tteit decision or immediately resign from-tie committee. A resolution was also carried commending the action of the pn?" siding magistrate, Mr. E. C. Cutten, f(* his out-spoken statement regarding'till unsatisfactory decision of the committetwith which decision he entirely dis» associated himself. . ~&)' During the discussion which en«e4 on a civic centre proposal at theKarangi* hape Koad Business Men's League to-dajj the speaker was asfeed if he had constd*' ered the sentimental objection thil might be raised to any interference witJl cemeteries. The reply was that enefc interference had frequently taken plaef in London and other places when thjj land occupied by graves was needed foi? public purposes. The chairman, Mr," M. J. Bennett, pointed out that chief railway station was built overai old cemetery. Becoming reminisoent, W produced an instance nearer home.

"When Grafton Bridge was being erected,'•' he said.' "the council wanted to remove 'the graves of my relative! because they were in the way of a pitf. : I protested, but was simply swept asMj; "And," added the speaker", "'by way of rubbing it in, they sent mc a bill f° r the cost of removal." This sounded., dreadful, but after a suitable interval he concluded with yet another addendlia that substantially "modified the position; "But I didn't pay it."