The Te Puke Times TUESDAY, AUGUST 5 LOCAL BODIES LOANS.

Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 5 August 1913, Page 2

The Te Puke Times TUESDAY, AUGUST 5 LOCAL BODIES LOANS.

The Local Bodies' Loans Bill, introduced into the House of Representatives last week, provides tliafc a special loan may be raised for more than one purpose connected with public works, and also that a local body may raise •a special loan for the benefit of some defined part of a district. Further, a local authority may unite with one or more local authorities in raising' a joint speial loan for any authorised purpose declared by resolution by each of the local bo:lies concerned. As to security for loans, the Bill 'stipulates that every special rate shall be so calculated a ; to yield if nccessary £10 per cent more than the annual or oilier charge:;' in respset of the ban ; every special rate is to be ma.lo over an area contained witfiia continuous boundaries, and all the rateable property within that area shall be liable to the special rate; all special rates to be applicable to the loan as security, ar.d to no other purpose. . It is proposed to place a limitation on loans to local bodies by the Advances Office, the provision to effect that being that the Superintendent shall not, except pursuant to any agreement made before the date of the passing of the New Zealand State Guaranteed Advances Amendment Act, 1912, grant to any local authority any loan which, together with other loans granted to th; ; ,t.body within the preceding three'years, exceeds £00,003. Unless tiiesuperintenclsnt decides otherwise every loan granted by him shall be paid within six months after the grant has been made. Provision is made whereby a local authority may raise a special loan outside of New Zealand with the guarantee of the Stat:, when the consent of the ratepayers has been obtained. In such case, if the local authority defaults, the loan will be paid ; out ■of the Consolidated Fund. Such guaranteed loans, however, must not cxcoed £500,000 a year. No such guarantee is to be given by the State unless the local authority has made due provision for the loan. Interest is not to exceed 5 per cent. The term of the loan is to be 3o years, and provision is made for a sinking fund of 11 per cent. If a local body defaults under these provisions, a Receiver will be put in by the State, and ho will have all the powers conferred by law on a mortgagee, except that he cannot sell without an order of' a judge of a Supremo Court, and that no public reserve may be sold. The Receiver wouid apply the money he receives to .the payment of principal and later-

i ! .ir Y/ynn-Wiiliams, olneer in ciurgj of t\v. tt»servj at Whaka(•ow.'U'ewa, dio.l somewhat suddenly ut Rotorua last Friday morning', from pneumonia.

The finder of a white cockatoo is requested to return the bird to' Mr KencpJy, No 3. Road. At the S. M. Court at Gore, on Friday last, J. J. Meikle, of Epsom, was charged on the information of his wife, Jane Meii.de. of Taiarau, with disobedience of an order made at Auckland, to provii? h2r with nmitenance. Arrears amounted to £23. An order was made that Meikle be imprisoned for a month in Ivlt. Eden Gaol, to be released on payment of £28. The drawing for the £600 Cadillac touring motor car in connection with the Waikato Association's Show took place at Hamilton on Thursday night, the lucky nnmber being 2580, held by Mr A. R. Blackburn, of the Railway Department, Rotorua, and sold to him by Mr E. Dyson, o? that town. Four Imperial officers are being selected and are expected to arrive in the Dominion at the end of the year to undertake the work of establishing an army service corps in connection with the defence forces. There will also be four Imperial Non-Coms. appointed to act as instructors in the wcirk of transport and supply. In accordance with the Admiralty scheme for the arming of food-carrying steamers, the New Zealand Shipping Company's s.s. Rotorua is now being prepared at the London docks for the carriage of two 4.7 guns. The Federal Company's Wiltshire, which is due to leave Liverpool early next week for Australia, is also being equipped, while but for the accident to the Tainui this vessel of the S.S. and A. Company would have left London this week with her guns on board. Writing to the Napier Daily Telegraph on the subject' of frozen meat, the, High Commissioner, Hon T. McKenzie. says, "I am pleased to be able to say that when the proposed improvements by the Port of London are carried out, they will' make an enormous difference in the handling of produce at this centre. I have been pressing the port authorities to accept tenders as promised, and they expect almost daily to do sc. On Friday, Ajgust Bth, Messrs ■ Dalgety-and Co., Ltd., will offer by pubiic auction, in the Chamber of Commerce, Auckand. the (Hamarakau Estate (iateChaytors'), of 2015 acres of good dairying and pastoral land, subdivided into 15 farms of from 31 acres to to 637 acres. Plans and particulars can be obtained on application at the local agency." OiUihc arrival of Sir Joseph Ward in New Zealand, a number of local admirers wired him a message of welcome. The following reply was received from Sir Joseph '.—"Sincere thanks to you for cordial welcome, and for the good wishes conveyed in your message, which I 'most highly appreciate. Kind regards to you all," The lines below, signed by a number of Sir Joseph Ward's friends and admirers in Te Puke, have been forwarded to that gentleman at Wellington Cu: Kttic lime! io not. •'ft;formed " by all t'ao powers that i: a, This truth b obvious to ail wha're not too blind to sac. W-! neod a mr.u of common siiisc to guide our destinies, A hundred thousand welcomes from your trip across tlia seas. "As to —, it was urged that he was a notoriously slow driver, bat he managed, according to the evidence, to get up speed of 29 miles an hour," observed Dr. McArthur, in giving judgment in the Wellington S.M, Court respecting informations for breaches of the speed limit by motorists in the liutt. "It may only l - ave been a spurt," he continued, " bus it happened at an unfortunate spot." The unfortunate spot, of coarse, was the place covered by the time-keepers. "Some fellow on the wharf toid him that if he gave me a gocd hiding three or four times a week I would think more of liirn, So remarked a wife in a case in Wellington in the Magistrate's Court. Her husband was asking the Court to issue a prohibition order against her on the ground that she drank to excess. They had not been married long, he said, and for the last four months she had been frequently intoxicated. His wife denied this, and said that her husband's fellow woiers had said to him things which had caused the trouble. Members of the police force deposed that, they had seen the woman in a state of inebriation. The Magistrate: An order will be issued. It will be for your own e;ood even if, as you said, you did not drink to excess. The wife: Very well; I'll get a legal separation later on.; I can't hammer him. That is all I want.

A clearing sale will be held'by,;' the New /Zealand Loan-ancl Mer-\ ; cantile Company on the' s 26tlv inst., on behalf: of Mr H,' H. - Cooney, of No. 3 Road, who has disposed of his farm, Full par- .. ticulars of the stock will appear in our advertising columns of a later date.; , : A full-dress rehearsal of''The Sleeping Beauty," the piece to be .staged by the girls, of St. John's Church on the 14th inst, will beheld iq McDowell's Hall on Friday night. Unless unfor- \ seen circumstances occur there is every reason to believe that the production will be a most creditable one. A large number of seats have already been booked' . at Mr Hoyte's. In the course of a reply to. Mr' Wilford, M.P., last week, the Prime Ministei said that the Government did not . consider thfere wasMsufficient indication of attempts to exploit the people in ' connection with the price of butter to warrant investigation by aRoyal Commission, The fact that many of the dairy compahi 8 retain' in cold storage a sufficient .■ quantity to supply their, customers through the winter is against the supposition of such methods. A minstrel entertainment is a decided novelty in these days, although a few years ago it;was a most popular*form of- eveningv amusement. . The Upper Te . Matai Black Diamond Minstrels ■ propose to revive the variety en- . tertainment contributed .to by . black-visaged 'gentlemen, with a wide expanse of shirt front , and an engaging smile,, and on Friday . evening next a performance;will be given in aid of the Hall funds, 1 . when "Mr Johnson " and his corner-men will - provide mirth/ and merriment for the audience. The promoters hope to. see a num-: b:r of visitors from', Te Puke. , present. ;, We give a final reminder to - members of the local A. and P. . Society of the working bee to be held on the Show-grounds on Thursday.' The planting season , will soon be over, and the officials are desirous of getting as many trees planted and general/improvements effected as possible. - it is hopsd, therefore, that there, will be a full muster of members, < with carts 'and tools, on the day me.rticnsd. Mr J. D. Henry, technical adviser to the Taranaki Oil Wells, Ltd,, and a journalist in New Zealand, will leave Auck~ i mnd for America,, en route to " England, by the Niagara oh . Sat- - urday. Regarding his, iuture -. . movements, Mr Henry informed a . Dominion representative'that they would be guided entirely by events. If a good strike,of oil is ' made at New Plymouth within the next two months, he would return to New, Zealand at once, . but if all the .boring, that was now ■■■'" being done proved ineffective' there would be nothing to induce ■ him to return. Mr Henry frankly regards the present as ■ cntical'' in the history of the oil industry. , A good deal of effort , was being ~ v made at the present;time to tap , oil flows, and where one company could secure 500,000' parrels it, " was reasonable for anyone t'o : believe that 500,000,000 barrels could be secured, One day last week (telegraphs '. the Invercargill correspondent of (he Lytellton Times), an enterprising female carrying a, baby; entered a local store, - and,; after ■ gazing futively round, sidled up alongside a child's go-cart.She suddenly dumped the infant into the vehicle, and, without any more ado, disappeared with it round the corner. The manager y of the establishment, noticing ~ later on that the go-cart > was missing, questioned one of the lady assistants' as to when the . \ purchase was made. . Of course, nobody in the place could .be ..•< found who had sold the go-cart. % , Then one'of the assistants called to mind the circumstance of the . ■ woman entering the l store with • the baby and placing the youngster in the cart. The manager, who is something of a humorist; : has given up all hope of ever seeing the go-cart or the female-.', again. He is taking things phil- i osophically, and probably con- i si ders the accident a mere busi- & ness episode. ■■ " ; The.latest programme shown by the Electric Pictures consisted of ; comic, dramatic, scenic, and industrial films. 'Pathe's Gazette' depicted the leading events that have recently happened in the - world of to-day, * whilst'Capt.' Jenk's _ Diplomacy.' -was 4 wellacted picture, the principal actor '' being a "well-known character"- ' to picture audiences. ' 1 Madame Demode" illustrated the mode of modern courtship, and though ' '■ the formalities are not in accord-> r ance with that of a poet's version ' the end comes "that love will have its way—so they say.'*

' '* The remains of a prehistoric discovered at '/ Forres, in Elgin. .... '' ' I; The Tamii-ICaituna Drainage $oard gives-notice of its intention j, #leyya rate of six farthings in i ; the &, ' < Owing to, counter attractions *" the Library Committee haveileciietl to pistipr.e the annual ba.l until September loth. ■Mr Arthur Paape, organising ' secretary'of- t!ie New Zealand Sports Protection League, ( has been appointed organiser of the ( keform Loague. It' is state:l ; that a disput: between two. settlers, resign at the top of No. 2. road, concerning ' the .shooting of a. dog, will be ' ventilated- at, the next sitting of the local Court. - Mr C. K. : Walter; Secretary of the Paerigaroa . Hack Club, noti- . . fies that the annual ball will be ield on Friday night, August 15, 5Mr Gilmour's Hall. The function is always i\ p::rular one, ana • will •no. doubt be attended l;y large numbers of dancers. ■ At the c',iifcrenc3 of delegates :< >in connection with tno East Coast ' Railway, held at Opotiki recently, no less than fifteen were represented,; viz., Payiimoa, Te Puke, ! Maketu, Paengaroa, Mehina, Otamarakau, Mata ta, , Whakatane. Taneatua, Cpriauo 'Waimana, Koturere, Opotiki, and Rotorua. It will be seen by an advertisement elsewhere that a meeting of 'the Flower Show Committee ' - and of all others interested in floriculture will be held. in the Mission Hall -next Saturday afternoon at' 2.15. It is . hoped that intending exhibitors will lose no lime in sowing and cultivating . whatever - flowers 1 they ■ intend • entering for competition, as time flies'apace, and the committee is 1 ambitious to > see even a better 1 display than that oi last year. {,' Speaking* at tho Railway, con--1 ference at OpotiKi recently, Mr f Donald Grant, of Paengaroa, said he considered that tn jV, aihi 1 'line'should bj , and i that a lire Llru.-l Le ran immediately'from Uif.Mount- to tap the •: .richiands-towards .v<p.>tik|. The 4 ■ land'here, he declare; was as v , 'go' 4as <it Mannwatu au.l Tarnnaki, and Vwulu carry thousands •' upon thousands o. : : sheep and ,cattle, while some ,-.of. the _ land ; 1 1 between..Katikati ; . and ■; Yvaihi 'would not carry a rabbit to tne v acre, "• -