LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 October 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Holensville" Town Board meet on Monday 9th inst.

A lost Marine Certificate is adveftif-

Ed for,

Tenders are repuireb ;_for "felling aVout 50 acres,-also ploughing about 250 acres in lots to suit tenderers.

The construction of the telephone line from IMaungaturoto •to Wairere has deen delayed owing to roads being unfit for the cartage of material.

Mr Coulter, tailor, advertises the arrival of new seasons goods. Those requiring an up-to-date suit, should order early to avoid the Christmas rush.

: .. Mr R. M. Cameron has a special price list iti our columns/this issue to which we call the special' attention of those^requiring saddles, harness, etc.

The Concert in aid of the Presbyi; terian Church, is to take place on the 2nd of November, ween en exceptional programme will be submitted.

Mr^ Thurlow Field; Independent Opposition will address electors at Kumeu -North, "Makarau, andy Port Albert next week. See adTertisement.

A number of people went out to the West Coast on JSunday last to viow a whale which had been stranded on the beach a week or two ago and which measured 15ft across the tail and was 50ft long.

We: acknowledge, the receipt;from,thai Under Secretary for land of a copy1 of of the Report on the Dune-acres of New Zealand, their Geology, Botany, and reclamation-by h. Cockayne •■Ph. D.F.L.S. . '

Tenders for the additions to- the Police Station at Dargaville, and for the erection of Station cottages at Maungaturqto, North . Auckland Railway, will be received -übtii noon on Saturday Oct 28th, at the Public Works Office, Auckland.

Mr. J. A. Beale, barrister and sblicitor of Paimersion Buildings, Auckr land, notifies that he has opened a branch business in Helens ville, and will attend all Helenavilie and Kaipara Courts.. \

We remind our readers of . the address to- be given on Friday evening next by Mr H. W. Lee, organis ing Secretary of the Barnaclo >.-.aturday Fund, in the Foresters' Hall. Tho Eev.'Forester'will occupy the Chair.

The overseas shipping companies have decided to increase from th s wee'c freights on greasy wool from five-eights to elerenrsixteenths of a penny, and scoured from three-farth-ing to thirteen-sixteenth 3, while tallow and hides will be increased half-a-crown a ton. The advances are due to recent advances in waterside workers' wages and other charges.

Mr Stallwortby, M.P,, asked tlie Prime Minister whether lie will, in the event of reciprocal tariff negotiations being opened up with Australia, endeavour to arrange that New Zealand manufactured cement be admitted duty free into that country ? The Minister replied in the affirmative ; in the event of negotiationsi.being qrjej.ed. up, he would be glad to cio tliis, : This is a matter of no mean iniponance to Kaipara, for ttiere are immense quantities of hydraulic lime deposits in the district, convenient waterways. As concrete is looked upon as the building material of the future, no doubt in years to come Kaipara, with its enornous deposits of limestone and wlavs in juxtaposition, >- its waterpower, its long' seaboard and deep-harbour, iis destined to become an important centre of cement manufacture. Who said that with the passing of our timber we would have no more ships ! —Bell.

At the Dargaville Borough, Council Meeting on Wednesday tile question' the Council talcing over private 'roads uhmetalled again came up for discussion, and was the cause of a stormy discussion. In 1908 Messrs Harding and Co. applied to the Council for its agreement.to take ovor roads ontho Mangawhare Estate unaietaiied The Council entered into 'an agreement to accept dedication of any such roads as were completed prior to April 30, 1911. In the. meantime ,;thl question wns' fiercely contested, and four oufc.of seven, members vypii-e,3Qnt to tlie new Council in April pledged not to take over any morn unmetaileci rjrids, Messrs Harding aad Co. ; failcd to get the roads completed beioie April 30. ' However, an application was received from them askin^ the Council1 to .acc3])t dedication 0 of a portion of the unmetalled roads now completed. There. w^re only four councillors, prese'nt^;'including^ fhe Mayor (Mr Jg\ J. Dargaville), who. moved to accept fledicatiou of the roads Councillor Williams opposed the Mayor strongly, and accused liim ongoing back on his flection pledge. A slormy scene followed, and on the Mayor trying to parry the jdedieati'-u through, Mr B. E. Williams, protesting vigorously, walked out, leaving tha meeting withcut a quorum' ■Subsequently ' Mr!;: Williams ' "was persuaded t> go back to defer the gues'jon'-ti?jL.iiext m?6t»g.O ' ,