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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1914, Page 7

The first mp^tiiig vf ihe mxiitois of Thomas Charles Lioyd Cox, journalist, who was to-day adjudged a bankrupt, will be hejd el 11 a.m. on Thursday, 23rd July. The Hospital authorities report that Kwong On, tho Chinese storekeeper in Walls ce-street who was assaulted in his shop last week by a European, is making a good recovery from his injury. The first and sixth prizee in the Wellington Citizens' Carnival art union (£SO and £5) are still unclaimed. A business man in Wellington states that he was the holder of the ticket bearing the number of the first prize but inadvertently threw it into the fire. The Mayor of Petone (Mr. J. W. M'Ewan) informed a Post reporter today that the council expected to have the motor-'bnses on the road by November next. The chassis are expected in October, when the bodies, which are being manufactured locally, will be fittedv Is it advisable to institute an elcc-^ trie light scheme in Lower Hntt? This will form the subject of a discussion at the meeting of the loca.l council this evening, Councillor Pnrdy having given notice to move to the effect that the question be gone into. At the present time Lower Hufct is lit by gas supplied by the Petone Borough Counril. " On Saturday a fire broke out in the office of an old building in Lnke's-lane occupied by W. Parton and Sons, plumbers. The Fire Brigade was ' quickly in attendance, and soon had bhe fire under control, but not before considerable damage had beon done to the_ contents of the building. The promises, ' which are owned by Mr. Robert Archibald, Boulcott-terrace, were insured in the Phoenix office for £150, and the contents' for £600 in the Commercial Union. The following officers were elected by the New Zealand Motor Union at its conference last week : — President, Mr. P. S. M'Lean (re-elected) ; vice-presi-dents, the presidents of affiliated associations; secretary and treasurer, Mr. W. Beacha-mp-Platts (re-elected) ; executive committee, the president, the' secretary, Dr. P. Knight, and Messrs. Richardson, Banks, T. Young, Booth, Elgar, Johnston, and Sead-Gowing, three to form a quorum. The attendances at the Masterton District High School and side school for the past month were as follow : Main school — roll 604, average SSB, percentage 92; side school— l 64, 144, 88; secondary classes, 69, 66, 96. The percentages of attendance for the quarter were : Main school, 93.7; side school, 90.6; secondary department, 94.3. For the past year the percentage for the whole school was 93.3, which is the highest percentage attained by any school in the Wellington district (telegraphs our Masterton correspondent). The Egmont Box Company turned out at the Eltham works for the twelve months ending 30th Jane, 190,980 but; ter boxes and 261,190 cheese cases, being an increase of 8776 butter boxes and 32,185 cheese cases as compared with the preceding twelve months. When the company first began operations in. 1902 there was turned out for the twelve months 116,693 butter boxes and 17,010 cheese cases. These figures give a good idea ofHhe strides made in the dairy industry in that district during the past ten or eleven years. Apropos of attendances at big football "Record" writes recalling that today is the seventh anniversary of the 1907 New Zealand football team defeating New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground. On the 13th July, 1907, 52,000 spectators passed through the turnstiles, which collected £2583. The match was concluded at 4.65 p.m. in favour of New Zealand by 11 points to 3, and ten minutes later the enclosure was derefted. , The back division of the All Blacks in this match was : — G. Spencer, Wallace, Mitchinson, Fryer, Hunter, Mynott, F. Roberts. ' The tender of Messrs. Campbell and Burke has been accepted for the Friendly Societies' Dispensary, which is to be built in brick next the Congregational Church, in Cour.tenay -place, and will have a frontage of 32ft by a depth of 80ft. The contract price, which is only £10 less than the estimatß of the architect (Mr. John S. Swan), is £1935. The other tenders were : Howie and Matthews £1939, W. L. Thompson £1972, W. H. Bennett £1993, Wakelin and Hill £2021, Murdock and Wallis £2059, Fletcher Bros. £2092, H. M. Davis £2119, Hunt and M'Donald £2147, Humphries Bros. £2315, M. Frain and Son £2373, Meyer and Co. £2957 Many areas in the Town Belt- have been under lease for grazing purposes to various tenants, but the Reserves Committee of the City Council has found it necessary to drop this policy Tenants have in a large number of cases neglected or had no time ip look after the land, which is very prone to become over-run with gorse, and the new policy is that when the leases fall in the Reserves Committee will cancel them. The grazing areas will be put in the charge of an official who will allow stock to be depastured on them and will collect fees for the rights. This system will have the advantage of " enabling the youiig 'trees which have been planted on the ■reserves to be properly looked after/ When William Joseph Dwyer ap* peared before Mr. D. G. A Cooper,' S.M., at the Magistrate's Court last week, charged with two Aucklbud offences, he was remanded until to-day in order that Chief-Detective Broberg could have further enquiries made «nto a local matter. These resulted in a further charge " which was preferred against Dwyer to day. Ifc was alleged that, on or about Ist July, he attempted to obtain from one Alice Goodman the sum of £3 by means of a fake pretence. According to the Chief Detective he was staying iat the same private hotel as Miss Goodman. The latter had the misfortune to lose her purse, ard this became known to accused. Accused handed her a valueless cheque for £8, telling her to cash it, give him £Z, and retain the balance as a loan. Dwyer pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to one month's imprisonment in tho Auckland Gaol. On the other charges— obtaining money by meuns of a valueless cheque and the theft of a hoise and harness— he was remanded to appear at Auckland next Friday. The popularity of golf is evidenced by the fact that the Miramar Club has now a roll of nearly 400 playing mernbei's ahd a fair number 1 of honorary members. It is doubtful if there are many other clubs in the Dominion with fetich a large number of playing members. As the tenure of the links at Minimal' is terminable at any time, the committee 1 of the club has formulated a scheme for the purchase of about 103 acres of the Crawford estate, near the city, bou nrlary. The area includes practically tfe whole of the land on which the first thirteen holes are now played, with the exception of about two chains of frontage; also an area of thirty acres of Hat land to the south and east of the present links, and about three acres fronting the tram-line, near the city boundary. The committee is satisfied that a first-class full-length course can be laid out on this land, at a moderate expenditure. The course would comprise twelve of the present holes, and six new ones, and would be one of the best and longest in New Zealand. A club-house built on modern lines forms part of the scheme that the committee will shortly place before the members. If the purchase of the land is effected, golf couk! be played (it Mirprnar throughout the whole year, instead of being confined tv tho winter months, us at present.