NATIVE LANDS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 136, 9 June 1906, Page 6

NATIVE LANDS.

fBT TELEGRAPH. J?UES3 ABSOCIATTON.I AUCKLAND, This Day. As a lesult of Mr. Carroll's conference- with W.iiktito natives, the Moerangi block of 45,000 acres will be divided into four sections — one of 5000, two of 10,000, and two of 15,000 acres, and one portion will bu set aside as a native reserve, a second for Maori farming, and the remainder for European settlement.

A correspondent signing binuelf " Public Abattoir" writes from Johii6on\il!o in approval of the motion brought be fore the Hospital Boaid by Mr. F. T. Moore to enquire into ths food supplies to the board's institutions. Tho writer knows that a large amount of meat is consumed in town which is not inspected, and he believes a commission of enquiry would Au mucL good. Why, he asks, has Wellington been allowed so long to set the law at defiance in regard to the provision of municipal abattoirs? A feature of the census returns in the Hawera district is the evidence they give of the large proportion of Australians who during the past few years have found employment in the milking industry. According to the Hawkes Bay Herald, a trust exists in that district which .affects the timber and building trades. The Heiald states that" the managers of this trust or combine notified tho Education Board on Tuesday last that if that body would not agiec not to accept tendvia ior building from any person not a member of it, the contractors and timber merchants in the combine would not tender for any work, and would refuse to supply materials for any work undertaken on the board's behalf. The paper gathers that much the same ultimatum has been forwarded to the Borough Council. This, the paper remaiks, is a somewhat curious matter, for the Education Board is continually building, and it is bound not to waste public money. . If the building trust keeps its word the board must agree to pay higher prices than it can get its work done | elsewhere (that, we take it, must be the meaning of the threat), or it will find its work hampered in a variety ol ways We think that the public is mteioited in defeating the objects of this, as of any other trust, and hope that the Education Board may be able, cither by engaging a peimanent builder on its own staff or otherwise, to carry on ita operations without submitting to the dictation of a trade combine. This combine is adopting one of the worst fea, tures of the trade unionists' policy, and we think the public should resist it. Perhaps when Mr. Seddon talks again about monopolies his attention may be called to this particular instancs. Messrs. Macdonald, Wilson and Co. will submit to auction on Tuesday next, at 2.30 o'clock, at their Exchange Land Mart, a catalogue of city investments in real estate, full details of which appear in our auction columns 10-day. These comprise the goodwill of lease in two central properties, situate in Victoria-strcot and Harris-street, the firit-named comprising tho three-story brick warehouse in thu occupation of Messrs. Storcr, Meek and Co., the other the two-story brick warehouse in tho occupation of- Meiers. '1 hompsou Bros., Ltd., fruit and produce merchants. Details of the rentals payable and derivable from these properties are pet out in the advor tisemout: They will also tubmit a building site aitua-te ekwe to Wellingion-terrace, having a frontage of 33ft to Clifton-terrace and 100 ft to Botanical-road, off Welling-ton-terracef Under instructions from Mr. Alec. Hill, now of Now Plymouth, his modern family residence of eight rooms, with up-to-date conveniences, situate between Molesworlh-streot and Tinakoriroad, with entrance from the latter street and Wesley-crescent. Cards to viuw can bo obtained from the auctioneers. Also, new two-slury balcony residence oi six rooms and conveniences, in Macfarloncslreot, with land 35 x 66, and a residonco of six rooms, with land 44- x 80, in Hay-ward-ierrace, off Tasman-strecl. Gilbey's Strathmill Scotoh whisky mado by tho old pot still process is guaranteed by the makers to be mado from mall only. An advertisement appears in anothor columu. Messrs. Hurcourt and 00. advertise an auction sale of properties to be held at their rooms. 46, Larablou-quay, on Wednesday, 20th June, at 2.30 p.m. fcoven building sites in Constable-street, Newtown, right on tho tram route, and withm a few minutc3 of Kilbirnie, Evans Bay, etc., will be offered Section 1 has a frontago of 40ft to Constable-street and 92ft to Owen-street. The remaining tix reetiom have frontages varying from 40ft to 40ft, by an average depth of about 93ft. Tho fir.n will (also offer one fiveroomed and two four-roomed villas in South-road, Nos. 31, 33, and 35, Borhnmpore, quite close to the Athletic Park ; also a four-roomed villa in Parliamentbtreot. Full particulars and conditions of »alo may be had upon application. Elsewlipro will bo found a notico from Messrs. Thomson and Brown, real estate agents, Hunter-street, in reference to several investments under tho heading of "Money -makers." Attention is nlco drawn to a farm for sale in. llio Taranaki District. Messrs. Win. It. Turnbutl and Co. uilveitise a frcsli list ot city and suburban in-upei ties, 'llio llrm iv v scpaute announcement give particulars of frcsli subdivisions of the Hatailni estate. Teima of s,ilc mo tho same ,19 at tlio lecent auction. Intending Inn era arc invited to unto Jlcssib. M'Kee and Co.'s house and land iidvcitisement in tliis issue. The attention of lwildeis, ni-ciiiteeti, and others is drawn clsewhcro to tlio new patent ornamental and fireproof asbestos ccilinga and cornices ut picscnfc ueitiß fitted up In ttie new Bank of Austr.il.isia buildings, nnd nlicadv installed by the patentee (Mr. Wni. Cm roll, 47. Ingestrc street, und lute of Sjdney) in the recently ercctrci Bunk of New South Wales nnd D.I.C. buildings.