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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 687, 18 July 1914, Page 5

On Saturday, 3 uly 2,5 th, Mr Graham sails horses, vehicles, fruit trees and shrubs. .Entries solicited. ' : " On :< Mr EL ' O; k Bedford, M. A , LL.B,, barrister of Dunediri, and a lecturer in economics at the Otago University, and an authority on social and economic questions, is toaddress a meeting in in. the Empress Theatre, on Sunday, July 26th, at 8.15 p.m. . Mr Graham, auctioneer, has a preliminary notice' in to-day's issue of the.sale of Mrs Largnvair's furniture and effects. Mr Graham, auctioneer, draws attention to the sals under mortgage of that: bouse property in Te Kuiti, on July 25tb. The property is absolutely to be sold, and the opportunity of obtaining a cheap home or a good investment is obvious. Particulars may be had from the auctioneer The dairying industry is. apparently destined to flourish throughout the length and breadth of the King Country. At Piriaka last season the output of the local factory was forty tons of butter. This must be accounted an excellent season's' work for a" new factory* . The transforming of Taupiri o te Rangi, otherwisei.tha Te Kuiti Town into a picture theatre is a sign of the times and Te Kuiti will doubtless be without a town hall until a suitable structure is erected by the municipality. To mark the closing of the old hall for dancing; Mr 3. T. Hetet extended an onen invitation to the public to a" social in the hall en Wednesday evening. There was a crowded attendance and a highly enjoyable time was spent. The public are invited to assist tha Arbor Day funds by patronising the Empress Theatre next Monday evening/ Tha management of the theatre have decided to give to the. Arbor Day committee 50 per cent, of the proceeds and it is hopad the public will assist by turning up in large numbers.

The attention of settlers is_ called to an advertisement appearing in another column of this issue with reference to meetings of dairy factory suppliers at Tahaia and Mangaoronga. Mr Boddie, chairman of directors of the Te Kuiti Co-operative Dairy Company, will hold meetings on Saturday next, July 25th. The Tahaia meeting will be held in the .morning and the Mangaoronga meeting in the afternoon. A great deal of enthusiasm was shown at the annual meeting of the Te Kuiti Horticultural Society held thia week. Although the date of the show is a long way ahead, the member's of tbPnSociety thought it wise to get matters in train. A strong committee has been appointed and everything augurs well for the coming season. An innovation will be made this year in as ■ much as poultry classes Will be added to the schedule. The annual meeting of Lipton's, Ltd., was very rowdy. Sir Thomas Lipton Was in the chair. Shareholders took exception to the company being debited with the costs in the canteen case, and urged that Sir Thomas, instead of yachting, should pay mure attention to the business of the company. Tha reports, and accounts were adopted, and before the meeting dispersed cheers were given for Sir Tbomaa, somebody shouting "Never mind the company, bring°back I tha cup."

It has been propjsed to hold a social gathering at the Te Kuiti school in connection with the establishment of the High School, and th§ opening of the new additions. A ladies' committee, consisting of the lady teachers and the wives of the committeemen, has been formed, to make the necessary arrangements for an afternoon function, and parents will be asked to provide -baskets. The public is cordially invited to be present on this occasion, and representatives of the Auckland Education Board will also be present to take part. The data of this function will be advertised later. In tha course of a conversation with a gentleman well versed on financial matters in Palmerston North, a Standard reporter was informed that money for investment was very plentiful now. In fact, it was stated, a curious position had. arisen—there was a difficulty in placing, such money, there being apparently no demand, for loans. During the past three months he had not invested fur clients mure than £SOOO, and in one case had been unable to secure an investment for a sum for soue time. This, it wa3 explained, applied to the legitimate lending business, and not to the placing of money on mail securities.

Very extensive alterations and development work has been carried out at Wilson's lime and metal works of late The old quaries abutting the railway line have been abindoned. and the quarry at the back of the kiln has been opened up. A fine supply of stone is available end the tram between the quarry and the works has just bean completed, and has been given a trial run this week. Interference with the ordinary political affairs of the country is the la3t thing advocates of the Bible in Schools movement wish for, but tlnir opponents have made ttn most'of political alliances, a Federations? Labour delegation being a prominent feature of the Defence League's last deputation to the Prime Minister. The organiser of the Bibl3 in State Schools League (Canon Garland) has picked an amusing weakness in this alliance. He told a Wellington audience that he was not yet prepared to say what action the Bible in State Schools League was prepared to take as a result of the union between Red Fed. and the Opposition League, but that party politics had been .intruded upon this question lay in any event in the first instance at the door of the Opposition League. He was rather amused tu find the Attorney-General of the Reform Party, who "had been so much abused by the "Red-Feds." for his action in the strike, now associated with them. Possibly when the general election came these-same "RedFeds." would show their sympathy with Mr Herdrpan. and his colleagues in a practical fashion 1* Hard pressed for arguments,, the opponents of the referendum on the Bible in schools find themselves obliged to 'do some inconvenient somersaulting;'. For instance the. Prime Minister has pointed out that in 1905 the Roman Catholic members of the House supported, in the division lobby the second reading Mr, -Sidey's Bill, under which a. plebiscite would have been taken. A more general advocacy of the plebiscite by the Ro,man Catholic Church was referred to'in a speech by Canon Garland, who stated that the referendum in Switzerland on this subject was taken in 1882 actually as the result of a request in which Roman Catholics h:ad joined, and upon which they' united, with ortnodox Protestants and other' religious peopla generally, to vote as against tha minority composed of German Radicals, Freethinkers and Socialists. Tha motto adopted by Roman Catholic's and' orthodox Protestants throughout the whole of Switzerland was "God in the achools" It was opposed by a bogus cry against Roman Catholicism, and with a denunciation of the danger of cl'ericalisnf; He asked: If it were right fc Roman Catholics to demand and take part in a referendum under the cry of "God in the schools" in Switzerland, in 1882. how could they find the principle of the referendum wrong in New Zealand in 1914+