MEETINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 58, 7 March 1912, Page 2

MEETINGS.

DBVOuNPOnT BOraOlrGH COUNCIL. CHELTENHAM 1 MTdIOVBatENTS. At last Digit's meeting of the Devonport liorougU Council the qutwtlon of erecting a tea kiosk and sanitary and bathing facilities at. Cheltenham B«a>ch was considered, luid !t was decided to submit the matter to a vote of the public, wlhh the poll la being taken on the £40,(100 loan proposal for xtreet improvements. In tbe meantime renders for a buiKMng eccordlnn to plans prepared by Mr. K. Hartley will be held over. They were:—iH. Morris, £1527; A. J. Holme*. £1444: J. 11. BdwuTdS, 01108; W. fl. Thorpe. £1175; J. M. ftretham. £IIA4: V. Wright. £1J.49; W. Sutherland. £1140; T. Alison. £1128; J. H. Miller, £1054. The original estimate, mode over a year ago, was £7OO, but it la explained that tbe price of some cfcmica of timber ha* advanced 25 per cent atnee tint time. Tbe Xjeggol and Finance < VrniTttUt.ee we«-e antnortaed to deal with the application that Luke Talcajxinu tie verted In the Wtitemnta County Council. The recommendation of tie eammlttee, that Council sections at Tafcapuna be leaned oil the Glasgow ayatem, was referred bark to the committee for oontddaratlon of tbe suggestion that drainage from these auction* would affect the purity of the water in th~ lake.

WOMKVS PCTMTICAL I,BA<3CE. The annual meeting of the Women* Poltlcal League wag held on Wedneaday, Mrs. Kirkby presiding. All the retiring officers were re-elected. It waa decided to urge upon the Government the necessity °f appointing a woman, who would put tn nil her time inspecting the factories throughout the Dominion, nope* were expremed that Sir J. Ward's promise to establish a State coal mine in the Auckland district would be fumUed; also that the movement in favour of all-day Sunday trams may be successful. The members expressed regret, on the point of principle. that eomc of the Labour and Independent M.P.'s broke the pledges made to their con<;tJtnents.

The threatened Htrlko was dteonased at considerable length, and toe following resolution was unanimously carried:—"Thot this meeting of women raits upon the Mayor, as the first ritisen of Auckland, to rto all In his power to avert the threatened strike, and that all means hare not and will not be exhausted until the Mayor meets the leaden of the men In conference: also. that the two Bishops, the local M.F.'s. and some of the clergy be asked to nssist n« peacemakers."

A Methodist clergyman, in the- course of a conversation with, a "Star" representative on the charge of heterodoxy discussed by Methodist Conference yestev day, and reported in another cofamm,eai<3 that many ministers weJcomed the prospect of having the matter of heterodoxy thoroughly ventilated, and rejoiced at the fact that the alleged "heretic*' had been fully exonerated by the finding of the committee. It meant that the ministers would be able to place- a broader interpretation on the creed that they had adopted, and that, no matter how broadminded a man might be in his views, he would be quite justified in preaching them if it were shown without a shadow of doubt that he was an honest and sincere follower of the Founder of Christianity. Mr A. E. Glover, accompanied by Mrs Glover, returned to Auckland this morning- _.., i.*.