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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 594, 16 August 1913, Page 4

It was Btated by the Prime Minister on Wednesday, in reply to Mr V. H. Reed, that in view of the fact that extreme values appear to have been placed on certain blocks of Crown land opened for settlement during the last few years, the Government had under consideration a proposal to have all valuations 0' lands about to be opened checked by the ValuerGeneral. The member for the Bay of Island, Mr V. 11. Reed, asked the Minister oi Public Health whether be would institute immediate inquiries, either by Parliamentary Committee or otherwise, into statements made to the effect, that two persona in Auckland had lost sums, and one in Wellington wap about to lose an arm through vaccination, so that tuch inacounile Htatements might be publicly denied. The Hon. R. H. Rhodes has replied:---"lmmediately after the statements were made the distirct health officers of Auckland and Wellington endeayoured to ascertain whether there was any truth in them, hut so far they have been unable to find that the statements have the slightest foundation in fact. It is extremely unlikely that such grave results could continue in obscurity, as the Government would most assuredly have been approached by the persons affected or by their friends or relatives. Under these circumstances there is nj need to hold an inquiry into those inaccurate statements, whoße foundation seems to have been mere idle rumour.

Mr W. Mcintosh, of Hamilton, has been :iii pointed secretary to the Te Kuiti District Co-operative Dairy Compnny. and will take up his duties :tt tlit> beginning of September. Mr Mcintosh has been for some years in tin employ of Meßßrs Goodfellow,

Ltd.. prior to which he occupied a responsible position in a commercial house in Glasgow.

The borough connection having been made there is every probability that the electric light will be used at next Sunday evening's service in the Presbyterian Church. The Rev. A. Armstrong will conduct both servioes, preaching at 11 a.m. on "The Impiety of (he Impossible," and at 7 p.m. on '"The Caroußal of an Appostle." A rumour has been going round Te Kuiti that a case of small pox has occurred at the local Chinaman's garden. Leo Shing, by advertisement emphatically contradictß this rumour. A dastardly act was perpetrated last night at, the Te Kuiti school grounds when the garden was robbed of a eboicc ■''m! of bulbs. A collection was specially pn-Hentod to the school by ' e i Thomas, 0 f Auckland, and '■'■■ e;-.e', : a-'iim very fine specimens. a ; e i], ( . r , V ening the garden was

, a e and besides the blooms being pick; ti the plantß were torn about, and in . ome cases ruined. The police have the matter in hand.