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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13484, 25 July 1907, Page 4

The meeting -t^e. Old \ Boys' plub convened for last, night was postponed until a furthqr date, owing to the small attendance. • ,\ ' .'.- „ . • At a sale of old French snuff-boxes in London i<ecentiy very high prices were realised, the .test being £560, £600, and £600. ■ -■ : '•. . , \ smoker at- fißildmg' found inside a tm of tpbacco he Jba4 purchased a coupon the't6badco cdmpaiiy whose brand he had purchased. The steamer companies trading to Australia, are united in, their demand for oxl6d lb A - x foy fcuteer/, carried*, to London via Suez and a halfpenny, per Ib. for t|ia^ •carried by the, Cape. , , . . The. schools. and Government offices of the town are plosed to-day in celebration of Arbor I>ay:. Generally spoaking, the holiday is being- quietly observed 1 and there, lias - been Jittle public demonstration in the: district; . » . ' Lots- in. the , projected township of Horopfto, on tbeltfarjiTrunk Lin©, were sold by auction at Auckland yesterday by the Hon. Kennedy McDonald, in conjunction with jMr..T. Mandepp Jackaqn. The prifc^tfi^g^-mnr^O *o according to sfee 1 arid -positidn. The quarterly statistics of schools in tho Auckland, district show there are '476' school '. (including .80 ' half-time schools)'; with 1 53;52? scholars— l7,66B boys and. 15,86,9 girls— taught c by 938 teachers. The following are increases oyot' the ppreviou s"'quarte r- 1 — Sbhoola, 5 ; Wj teachers,' 3; scholars; 205. The a vexage^dAily .attendance has decreased Tsy 280, largely owing to measles. The annual meeting of the Punewhakau Co-operative Dairy Company wa3 held at Tiitutawa Hall on Tuesday, with a good attendance of members. Mr Hodgkinson, chairman of directors., presided. The directors reported that the output for the year 1906-7 was nearly double that of the previous year. Messrs Foley, Najly, Worthington, and Houlihan were elected' to .fill vacancies on the .directorate, and Mr H. N. Liardet was re-appointed auditor. Mr Hodgkinson was again entrusted with the chairmanship. A case of some "interest to local bodies and settlers was heard at -Waitara yesterday by his Worship Mr H. S. Fitzherbert, sitting as an Assessment Court under the provisions o£ the Local Bodies Loans Acts/ The Clifton County £!oiincil proposes, in accordance with the general wish of the ratepayers, to raise a special loan 'to metal the Oapui Road, near Tarata, and accordingly has prepared a special roll, showing the lands that will be burdened with any., rate that may be -struck to secure the loan. Under the provisions of the Local Bodies .Loans- Act Amendment Act, 1906, two of' the settlers on the road, Messrs Drummond'and Jensen, applied to haye their 'lands taken off the roll on- the ground that, "theirs being corner sections abutting on the Oapui and Junction Roads, -of which the latter is already metalled; they would not be bene■fited- by thY loam. The applicants appeared in person, Mr J. C. Nicholson (Roy; and WiWon)' for the Council, aijid Mr C. BUWesfon < Weston *and Weston) for, the! other ratepayers on the special .joll/. ,-JSviclence was icalled. by- the pairties: to show to .what extent a coimer Section i& -benefited by the by-road being metalled, a-nd at .the .conclusion of. the case the. Court*. held, that the sections viiould. : b& .bfinofrteji; .^nd dismissed, the applications. Wood's Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails. Is 6d and 2s 6d.— Adv*