PROTESTS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8930, 22 October 1894, Page 5

PROTESTS.

The Couucil of the National Association (the Auckland section) has resolved to send to the Premier aud the leader of the Opposition, copies of the following resolutions :— *' That this Council views with disapproba. tion-the proposal to add to the legislative charges of the colony by tbe appointment of political Under-Secretaries ; and it also proteats against the continuous increase of administrative expenses, in the face of the diminished earning power of the mass of the Kple, as being uujustj and opposed to the t interests ot the country." POST OFFICE BOARD OF APPEAL. At a meeting of the Dunedin Postal, Telegraph, and Telephone staffs, the following *ere proposed for the position of member of the Board of Appeal, the fiual selection to be made at a future date:—Mr J. A. Huttou. Postmaster, Oamaru; Mr W. A. White, Postal Clerk, Dunedin, one of the delegates tottwfirst Conference; Mr VV. MoNickle, Secretary to the A'airpo newspaper; Mr A. A. D. MacLaughliu, General Secretary of the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Society •od Vice-Pieaident of the first Conference W Weltinijton in 1891. WELLINGTON WOOLLEN COMPANY. The annual report of the Wellington WooUen Company states tkat the period under teview has been one of extreme depression, coupled with excessively keen competition for a consequently curtailed volume of trade. The Directors do not Foposa to write the usual sum off the ComPauy's properties aud plant. The results obtained at the close of the half year on the Olat of March did not warrant the payment of the usual half-yearly dividend and the year's operations, the Directors regret, do uot justify any present recommendation in that direction. The revenue for the year, including £1982 brought forward, was &7188, and the expenditure £5364. Included wnong the assets is the stock (raw material and goods manufactured and in process of manufacture), £41,373.