AUCKLAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 312, 26 September 1908, Page 5

AUCKLAND NEWS.

September ?4. Speakiug on the question of high rentals during a political address last nighty Mr. 6. -M. M'Kuight, Labour candidate for thp Parncll seat, declared that hp know the of a man who paying 12s. (sd. a week for his lipase, and "who went tp tho pf"painting it. "While hp was c'ngagod doing so, tha landlord happened to pass. Thp' latter informed his tenant that, with thp, im:. provanieht he had madp to tho proyert3f (the laiullprd) could get 17s, 6d ; a wpok for it, that he wpuld charge him that rent in futuvo." Thus \yas % {cna,nt penalised for improving and, they man's property atlns own pqlt. Another which Mr. MKiiigut said had pomo under notice, that of a piari' who ashed by hi? landlady t° J® around the house ho was renting frQio hor. He did til.l the soil, aw} l\is faw'ard was, tq fc? put pn't and to. b? Ps9V?d If?? for his labour. ■ ' ' Civil servant?) flot Agit^tofs, ,At a social gathering" of 'tho Aupkland b.ranpli of tho C(vil S.e'ryice Mr, Q. 9. Spencp stated that, thp Kra'nph at present was jjest in membership to Wellington, with 3 roll of SJjIQ out of 'a total for tho association pf, 800, o,f tho Givij Service Association, he said, wore lipt, agitators, ntff wciro the.v iii any' antagonistic to tho Goyornmpnt- th'6y aimed at'was a. recognition of their just, rjghts. T|ip Government recognised this,' for the fripio Ministor hqd stated that it wafi an thjjlig for Givtl'Sprvaflts to moot i" conJerorjca . arid discus's their working conditions', bringing thp ahoinjiJies under, tlie notice of thc\ Cjovc'riimont. " Soptemhor 25, New Zqajiin?] Products. In connection with the pro.per disposal of New Zealand products irj th? eipqrt traile, Mr. 'H, G'. Stringer ( secretary '| to the Auckland Earners' Freezing Company, says:—."What is wanted 'is one "national agency at Homo for New Zealand wool, beef, mutton, lamb, butter, flax, pelts, etc. The products of tho Dominion .would command fetter prices all rqund. Sometimes things are cheap, and thero aro substitutes, but tijerfl is no substitute for New Zealand 'wool. Our wp°l os'ppvt" last' ye'^r,' owing to." prices, realised between £2,000,000 and £3,000,000 less than'it liayo donp, ajicj th'at is an actual''money' loss to the country. How inuch storage would that sum Kavo paid if it was necessary to hold wool for a better market, if money happened to bo tight? But it. wasn't a case qf i money tight-, It was a case pi bearing the market. '• Ho i has information that the hptd 80,00(1 bales of rfov Zealand iyool back froni tlio May a\id the Result )yas that pricps foso! \Yhat Tffi\itd haye (>es\, tho if no Jfe\y Zealand wool had beoii offered thp 4t?P in jpripes took place,?- ' Tho Fly oil tiie Meat, The Pistrict Health Plßppr (Dr. Purdy) forwarded the. fpllowipg letter- to. the Olty Opunoii's rfteetjpg last night Owing to tho daggers, more especially frppa flies a?ld cl\ist, I would suggest that a by-law h(? brpught iu making it compnlspj-y for all food, such a3 ipeat, and wilk, tfl be sp]d m shops l)'hiqh havo closed' windows to preyemt flies gaining access 'to * tho meat. The butchers thpipselves' havo evidently not yet realised jn Aijckland the full ox'terii to which flips responsible for coii't,aiuip?ting Beat. In many coiiu'tries* iw a|l is' rigoroiisly , prpteptpd fronr flies. I m firmly of opinion that the last epiden\io of typhoid TO TOain)y spread by tlioir asehpy-. I iliforihed that in "Wellington, since the leading butchers put up modern establish,niehts with glass frogtp, the ineathas' hept much better, and that in a city whpre there so much >vind as jn Wdlington people'aro HQ longer served wifh meat which is coated with dust," Tramwav Profits. In a report to the Oity Council last everting t'ho ejty trpasurer stated that oyer eight mouths had elapsed after the close. r| tbe finahpial year bpforo iho courio;l received its share of tlie tramway profits, ai\d he reoowmpnded that tjie Tramway Company shou]d he'requostod to expedite payinent,' The cQuiipil agreed to the recopuiiciidation, ai'd wjll ppniiuvimcate with the company accordingly.