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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12109, 17 June 1907, Page 8

\ Southland farmer who- objected to the Valuation Department, assessing him at £9 an acre, nearly took a fit at olio Assessment Court the other day when a member offered him £12 an acre and subsequently raised it to £13. ihe owrjor "(however, 'wasn^t selling, and ne left, the court with very strong opinions about the appointment of members who understood the vahtc of land.—Ctautivti "Standard." T " This is a terrible satire on our .Labour laws,-' remarked Mr. Burnett at a meetins? 'A the Dur-edin Benevolent Trustees on Wednesday afternoon (says the" Otago Daily Times'"). The. case in point was that of a labourer who had been un-able to get work for twelve months. The applicant said he had an " obstropolus" (? obstreperous) son, who declined to help him. His wife was dyin«» "How do you live? asked a trustee. The applicant considered the matter, and replied, scratching his head: "Well, it's a mystery to me myself Ho did not know who his father and mother were; ami as for his religion, ho believed he was a Baptist, but could not say for certain. This person (aged 65 ho'believed) was so much of a mystery that his application was postponed for a fortnight, pending inquiry.