LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1091, 12 September 1904, Page 3

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS

(Special to the Daily Telkguai'h.) Auckland this day. HOCKEY I'iik rt-pi'osGiitativo lioekey mutch, Auck" 'ami v. Poverty Bay, played at licmucra on S itnrday, was won by Auckland by 6 to nil. HEW TRAMCARS Fuur new tramears oriWe I from En.; hiul nro expected lo reach Auckland by tho end of October, E ghi other cars arc under construction in England, and one in Auckland. THE TOBACCO 'MUST Messrs Au6tin Walsh and Sutherland, principals ol tho Auckland Tobacco Company, ar<; in Wellington for the purposo of interviewing the Premier, Mr Sut iierhnd who was manager of the plantation in Fiji, stales that if relieved from tho boycott instituted by the Trust, tho company could still mako its undertaking a prolitublo one, the business being a well-paying one until attacked. Though in liquidation, tho Company is kept iilivo, some half-dozen eun ployccs in tho Auckland factory being employed undor tho supervision of tho guarantors, Mr Sutherland considers that if the Trades Monopolies Bill, now beforo the Houso, wore parsed, tho company would be ablo to reconstruct, imd, lighting on fair ground, secure a good mnrkot for its product l .. In the event of tho bill posing, and reconstruction being effected, the Company will commence growing operations in tho Auckland district, a plantation being established to tho north of Hokianga, whero the land and climate are very suitable, especially for the growth of cigarette tobacco,