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small community can do for itself by a system of self-help, without the formality of incorporation, was afforded at the fourth annual meeting of the Wahroonga Progress Association. The report (says a Sydney paper) showed how the residents, by voluntary subscriptions, had formed roads, planted trees in the streets, installed gas lamps in thoioughfares. and performed, in fact, many of the functions •exercised as a rule by the municipal councils. But, as is usually not the case with municipal councils, there had been no borrowing:, and. so far from there being the customary debt, there was actually a credit balance of over £]oo. Emphasis was laid upon the circumstance that the exp ' ' ministration during the p amounted to only £!> lis lid, a sum including the cost of printing, stationery, and postage stamps. There had U?cn no town clerk to pay and no overseer of works, and there had ljcen no stuccoed 'town hall to maintain. Vnder the conditions, the residents contend, probably with some reason, thati they are justified in opposing the proposal to incoporate the district. and to set up elaborate machinery for its government—machinery which, it is declared, "would soon be found too costly to maintain, and too unwieldy to control." Edendale to Gore and back road race, run on" Wednesday, distance 36 miles,, was by D. Dixon in lhr 42min. BOsee., en a Masaey-Ban-is iMcbin6.—AoVt.