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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 99, 23 October 1913, Page 7

Ab the Town Hall last night, Mr. Batt, on behalf of "The Orphans," thanked the Mayor for his practical sympathy with the movement for a town clock initiated by the club. Mr. Luke had, he said, amidst applause, donated £20 to the fund. Mrs. Sloan, of Wadestown, held the lncky ticket (No. 7555) for the nugget, value £10 10s, given in connection with the entertainment by "The Orphans" in aid of the Town Hall clock. Miss Cecil Haines drew the winning ticket, the Mayor presiding. More additions are to be made to the Zoological Gardens at Newtown Park in the shape of a- pair of Port Lincoln parakeets, a male orange bishop weaver, three diamond pheasants, and a pair of flying opossums. These purchases were decided upon at the annual meeting of the Zoological Society last night. Fish were in large supply at the Municipal Market to-day, and the manager notifies that there is a full shipment coming to hand for to-morrow morning. The assortment will be a varied one, and will include blue cod, garfish, and other small and large varieties. A large consignment of ■whitebait from Foxton is due this evening and -will be on sale to-morrow morning. Arbitration proceedings in connection with the renewal of corporation leases took place at the Town Hall to-day. In the case of the T. and G. Mutual and Club Hotel leases Mr. A. Gray was umpire, Mr. A.. S. Biss, arbitrator for the lessee, and Mr. C. B. Morison, K.C., for the corporation. In the case of Harcourt and Co.'s lease Mr. Alexander Macintosh was umpire, and Mr. Biss arbitrator for the lessee, and Mr. J. P. Maxwell for the corporation. Mi. Macintosh was also umpire in the case of the leases of Aitken, Wilson and Co., Kirkcaldie and Stains, the Economic, and Hall and Knight, Mr. W. M. Hannay arbitrator for the lessee and Mr. C. B. Morison arbitrator for the corporation in the first two cases, and Mr. J. P. Maxwell in the last two. At the meeting of the Wellington Branch' of the Land Values League held last evening, Mr. Withy announced that the Hon. G. Fowlds had accepted an invitation to attend the annual social next Week. Mr. F. W. Burke moved : — "That this league affirms that the purpose of land value taxation is twofold— to ensure the equitable division of land, and to institute a juet and permanent revenue, and in so far as a graduated tax would compel the division of land it must necessarily involve the loss of t Tevenue from land values. This league*' therefore dissociates itself entirely from tho demand for an increase of the graduated tax, but reiterates its demand for a flat tax on land values without exemptions or graduations." Mr. Withy seconded the motion. The unearned increment of land was, he said, the natural source of public revenue, and everybody must pay his share of State-created privilege in the 1 form of land values. After gome discus- ' sioii the motion was agreed to.

'A SAFE INVESTMENT. Investors who appreciate a safe investment, with freehold land as security, should waste no time in getting full particulars in connection with the Waiotapu Estates Development Company, Ltd. A convenient form of enquiry, with other particulars, is printed on page 3 of this issue of Tho Post, but as the shares have been largely taken up this week, following on the authority given recently by an Order in Council for the extension of the Taupo railway, immediate action is now necessary to secure a share in this undertaking and the pjfofits accruing.— AdYfcj 1