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AND COMMENT Sharp Exchanges White Assessor Defends The council chamber was crowded on Monday night October 29 when a Court of Revision heard ap peals from private owners and a large number of Industries and employers of labor The Court of Re vision was composed of Mayor BeU chairman the deputyreeve James Murray and Councillors Corbett and Fielding- Assessor E Good was present to answer questions and defend his rulings- The session lasted from 8 oclock till midnight Individual appeals were heard first and the industries later The bulk of the appeals were Thirtyeight appeals were list ed for hearing but a number of these were from firms where more than one assessment was involved Such an instance was that of Mr A A Cook who ap pealed not only in regard to the assessment on his home property but also in respect of his other business properties BGWHITELAW Stationery Wallpapers Select Range Of Greeting Cards etc Agent For Era Classified Ads St Aurora Telephone V SHOP Coffee and End Tabic Table Lamps Footstools KJtchen Cupboards Furniture Repairing General Woodworking WELLINGTON ST AURORA J WILLIS I Druggist The Drug Store News agent Tobacconist etc Business Founded Aurora St Telephone j- r m COFFEE SHOP Sorrow Grilled Hamburgers To Choice Ml of Leaches Friendly Good Service OPEN DAILY 11 SATURDAYS m NEAR STOPLIGHT WELLINGTON ST DANCE TO THE MUSIC of the Don Orchestra EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT at the AURORA w a Make It A Habit Meet Your Friends At The o D HESS Drag Store Two Graduate Pharmacists St Aurora Tel I Emergency Call Tel 38 a I BE ON TIME PHONE NORTH END TAXI AURORA Look for the Cart With the Yellow adjourned until November when the Court of Revision will deliberate in private and issue its decisions There will not be it is understood any public an nouncement of these decisions- There can be little doubt that Assessor E Good stirred a hornets nest around his head of a ferocity unprecedented in the history of assessments in the town of Aurora But he defend ed his decisions in a way that showed competence and under standing of his job Here in his own words are what he told those who appealed against his rulings Rates are set by the Municipal Board and it is duty of assessors to carry out instructions That is what he told Mr Ross Linton who made a strong at tack on the assessor while ap pealing against the large assess ment increase applied to the company he represented In the course of his remarks Mr Linton said that he did not think it was a decent thing on the part of an assessor to come in from another municipality and put into operation a new system of taxation The assessor re plied that the system was not new He had adhered to the in structions set for him and had carried out his duties in accord ance with assessment bases that were intended to realize equality for all There was another somewhat hectic bout between Mr Lome Cousins and Mr Good when Mr Cousins submitted his appeal and further fiery exchanges be tween the assessor and Mr Cook In regard to one claim by Mr Cook the assessor commented that Mr Cook appeared to have been enjoying a state of change since the year Before the reading of a long document by Mr Lees on the subject of municipal assess ment and the appeal of the Col- leather company Mr asked the assessor if the prin ciples he had worked on were law or whether such principles were applicable at the will of assessors To this Mr Good replied that the principles were law We as assessors are dutybound to assess he said and the Court of Revision can do as it wishes On a question asked by Mr Linton to whether it would not have been better for the as sessor to have conferred with council as assessment processes continued the assessor replied that no municipal council had any right to advise assessors He repeated that it was the duty of assessors to follow the rules laid down for their work Appealing on behalf of firm Mr George Baldwin admit ted that assessments were previ ously too low now they were too high Protesting assessments made the Hart manufacturing repre sentative alleged that the asses sor had said he would see that industry carried the largest bur den This charge was replied to at a later stage in the sitting when Mr Good declared that in dustries arc still assessed lower than homes Concerning his appeals the assessor told Mr Comer that he and his son had the two best rooms in the block where they were situated Thats what you think retorted Mr His appeal was adjourned until November We shall review the Court of Revision proceeding editorially In our next Ed r For Friendly Personal Service Shop At I iVIl JOHN MORNINGS DRUG STORE St Asm I RESERVATIONS RAIL HOTELS a4 visa if 1 Jfeyf r r i T G SINCLAIR Editor PAGE NINE THURSDAY THE FIRST DAY OF NOVEMBER NINETEEN AND FIFTY ONE EDITORIALS TAKE A LOOK AT THIS We have consistently opposed the town planning board in the belief that it is not necessary for a small town such as Aurora and for the further reason that the council possesses the necessary power to proceed in zoning off areas where necessary A planning board means an expense to the rate payers who have to pay the full costs of its operations The Aurora planning board came into existence in the year Little if anything was done that year and as far as we are aware no expenses were incurred A different story can be told of the years that have followed and we think we are doing a service to the citizens of Aurora in informing them on the official figures we have of the cost of the planning board For it is the taxpayers who have to meet the bills In 1948 the planning board consultant was paid in fees In the planning board consultant was paid in fees In 1950 the planning board consultant was paid in fees In the council budgetted to the planning board Besides these expenses paid to a consultant who resides outside of Aurora oyer was paid for an aerial map which hangs on the wall of the council chamber and has the appearance of an old parchment that has been dug up from the middle ages The consultant is paid an hour for profes sional services and per hour for technical time What the difference is between professional and tech nical time we do not know These of course are not the total costs arising out of the operations of the planning board Consider the time that has been given by members of council in discussing planning board matters Such time has to be paid for by the taxpayers A large slice of council time was taken up last year and a much larger amount this year in trying to make sense out of the mysterious phrasing of planning board proposals Even the town solicitor himself fortified by long legal experience has admitted his difficulty in appre ciating clearly much of the zoning bylaw now under consideration Figure it out if you can what useful purpose the planning board has been to Aurora Meantime the taxpayers continue to pay the costs WHAT THEY ARE SAYING Aurora Lawn Bowlers Elect Officers For Season Names Mentioned For Council At the Aurora lawn bowling club annual meeting on Thursday night October 25 they were saying it had been a good season The club has had its Share of tournament successes during the season that is now unfortunately drawing to a conclusion The club has entertained many visitors from far and near and they have been unanimous on one subject namely that the Aurora greens have been kept in beautiful shape MAYOR BELLS REBUFF Thus far members of council have accepted Mayor Bells rebuff in silence Not a single one of them has risen from his seat at the council table to protest against his personal veto of a resolution which was passed unanimously on July 24 Such a veto is an affront not only to council but to the citizens also whose right to full council news is being denied them As we have pointed out on several occasions Mayor Bells veto is a restriction on the freedom of the press Council has accepted his rebuff in silence We wonder if the taxpayers and citizens of Aurora will do likewise A NECESSARY BYLAW As far back as March of this year considerable discussion took place at council regarding a hawkers and pedlars bylaw and members agreed that such a bylaw was necessary A bylaw was prepared and given a first reading on Juno 4 Since that time noth ing has been done about it and it seems to have gotten lost among the leaves The only point that needed to be settled was the amount of licence fees to be charged When that was agreed upon all that remained was to give the bylaw final readings which wouldnt take up more than ten minutes We wonder why such a necessary bylaw has been forgotten Is there some snag somewhere Some thing alive below the surface Our storekeepers have to pay licences to sell mer chandise which any outoftown pedlar can traffic on the streets without let or hindrance This is so obvious ly unfair to our own taxpaying merchants that we suggest it is high timo the inequality should bo recti fied FRUITS OF ADVERTISING It gave us great satisfaction to hear from an Aurora merchant that the advertisement he placed in our columns had attracted a record crowd of shop pers from adjoining communities Since he had not previously enjoyed the sight of so many outoftown buyers in his store he was naturally impressed with what he described as the pulling power of the Era and Express Since the merchandise he was selling was of the highest class and certain to give satisfaction to buyers the advertisement had served a dual useful purpose It had increased the business of the merchant and it had given satisfaction pleasure to buyers who but for the advertisement in the Era and Express would not have known that their requirements could have been so fully met Such are the fruits of advertising Good advertis ing makes known what merchants have to sell and buyers are enabled to know they can get what they want Such are the services of when it is placed in the right medium Advertisers proved again and again the pulling power of the Era and Express ATYOIJR 1 year veteran Harry Teas- dale was chairman of the greens committee and all ac knowledge that he did a good job This year he has retired from that position and his place has been taken by William having received a unanimous vote of appointment The club could have chosen no better man for the job than Bill Among those who attended the annual meeting of the club were Mayor Alex Bell Corner Pattenden Leo Pot ter Cliff Morris Dr G Madge Herb Thomp son Irwin Watts H Teasdalc and J G Sinclair Election of Officers The president of the club Mr G after taking the chair asked the secretarytreas urer Mr Cliff to read the minutes of the previous meeting and to present the fi nancial report These having been received adopted the secretary treasurer requested that ah auditor be appointed to check the books and accounts Mr Thompson was ap pointed auditor Mr was unanimous ly reelected secretorytreasurer of the club for the season a vote of thanks being accorded to him for his past services President and vice- president Potter having express ed a wish to retire from these offices both having served two- year terms the meeting elected Mr Morris to the presidency and Mr Corner vicepresi dent- Bill Morris who is one of the senior members of the club will be serving his first year as president Harry Cor ner held office as president some years ago In retiring from office George and Leo Potter said their interest in the welfare of the club would be strong ever and both would do what ever they could to promote its progress A vote of thanks for their past services was unani mously passed The thanks of the club were extended to Harry for his services during the past sea son as chairman of the greens committee The constitution of the greens and games committees were as follows Green committee W chairman Harry G Madge and Leo Potter Games committee chairman Irwin Watts and Herb Thompson During discussion on projects for the improvement of the club properties and the provision of necessary amenities it was re solved by the meeting to request a grant from the Recreation Commission from Us recrea tional funds to meet some of these needs and the secretary was instructed to place this re quest by letter to the chairman of the The Melancholy Days The closing down of the lawn bowling season reminds us of some very beautiful lines of poetry which recited to us by our neighbor Mr James Wilson as ho was busy sweeping up the fallen leaves at front of his home on Spruco street other day Tho lines ore by Longfellow and are as follows The melancholy days come The saddest of the year With wailing winds and naked woods And brown and sere Heaped in the hollows of the grove The autumn leaven lie dead They rustle to ebbing gust And to the rabbits tread Mr WHson recalled these lovely lines from of college days He was that ho does not find bo easy now to memorize what he likes and we share this disa bility with him are com pensations of thorn la tho ability to revive what called the mental of other years This Mr Wilson did in quoting to us easily and Impressively lines wo have just revived Taxi Conversation In a taxiconversation with our driver the other day who happened to be William of the North End Taxi we learn ed that his brother H who served from 1945 in World War holding the rank of corporal enlisted in the in June of this year and is slated to serve in northwest Germany at an early date He is at present in camp at Milchaire Quebec Bill himself had a similar period of service in the last war Commenting on the unusual name Bill told us that it had been found that there were no more than three fami lies in Canada with the same name and none of them was re lated His father came to Canada in the year from Chester England Chester is one of the oldest and most historic cities in the Old Country It was built by the Romans and some of the city walls still stand in tact testimony to the enduring art of the builders of a great empire Bills parents reside just outside of Aurora 5050 Club The 5050 club of the Aurora United church is enjoying great prosperity in membership and in its objectives In conversa tion with Earl Scott vicepresi dent of the club we are glad to hear that the paidup member ship now amounts to 125 We remember when we first wrote a few notes about the club that its membership was then Dont Darken My Door is the title of the play that Is to be presented on Friday Nov 9 And is it to be presented It gives us especial pleasure to say that the play will be per formed in Auroras community centre the Mechanics hall It will also give especial pleasure to many Aurorn oldtimers some of whom were prominent in plays presented at the Mechan ics hall in years gone We have little doubt about the Mechanics hall being thronged on the evening of Fri day Nov Make a note of the date It will be an historic oc casion the reopening of Auroras community hall to the citizens Grover Gage is the president of the prospering club of Aurora Names Mentioned Among a number of names we have heard mentioned during the past few days for likely nomination on Friday Nov are P EvanB W BUI Case Cameron Loblaw Jim Wilson of Wilsons Hardware Doug Harrison and Stew Pat rick There are other likely candidates whose names will be announced later Mr Evans has had many years experience in municipal life and would bo a great acquisition to Auroras local government For several years he reeve deputyreeve and councillor in Whitchurch township Bill is a popular personality in his home town and a very successful business man He was nomin ated last year but withdrew owing to heavy business de mands at that time We know that strong will bo brought to persuade him to seek election this year Cameron Jim Wilson Doug Harrison and Stow Pat rick are all practical successful men Mr Patrick had pre vious council experience and knows tho ropes Mr Mr Wilson and Mr Harrison would all bring experi ence to council and thats what la needed at time Many people ore saying that men should seek election to of fice All of them would receive strong support Office Wo have had many visitor to our office at Hall since we opened up a couple of weeks ago Some havo brought us news others havo brought business all brought good wishes For oil these pleasant experi ences wo ore grateful Wo pleased to add that sales of our have increased and wo had an Increase In advertising some of latter being of a very substantial char acter Turn Over For Second Aurora Page THEATRE CLIFFORD GRIFFITHS M 1 1 anil rnoay ana zJ iid w i Msiir I TDT rf-wv- v AlftO WARD BOND PHILIP CAREY I Mr- THE SEA I fcV u M warn Am r r- L I ho management of outat you will welcome FOOT IN t a Martha Scott Fi IryiiAi i55 Is r- v t V- r i a