UNEMPLOYED IN AUCKLAND.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1909, Page 7

UNEMPLOYED IN AUCKLAND.

FROM FIVE TO SEVEN HUNDRED AN APPEAL. (BY TBLEGKAPH. — PEESS ISSOGIAUBN.] AUCKLAND, This Day. The Mayor telegraphed to the AotingPremier to-day : — "Another deputation waited on me this morning with the names of 180 persons wanting woik, and representing that many were on the verge of 'destitution, and that urgertt measures were necessary for themrelief. The men are earnestly desirous to work. \ I estimate the number of unemployed at> from five to seven hundred. Can the men be engaged for the north Main' Trunk railway now that the route has been decided on?" A woman named Mrs. Jamieson met with a peculiar accident in an Auckland tram one night last week. She rose .rhile the car was in motion, and a joli threw her against a seat, causing the fracture of two ribs. it is stated, says the Westport Times,/ that in a, town not very far from Westport the disciples of Bacchus have formed a union whose main object is to boycott on week-days those publicans who will not open their bars on Sundays. A charge of stealing an overcoat, valued at £2 10s, from John Griffiths's shop, in Courtenay-place, was preferred against Michael M 'Glade in the S.M. Court to-day. He admitted his guilt. Sentence was postponed in order that enquiries as to accused's character might be instituted. He will re-appear in court on Friday. , A correspondent iroin the Melling portion of Lower Hutt writes complaining of the action of the Railway Department in granting the golfers a shelter at Heretaunga station, and refusing one to the residents who travel' int<j town from Melling. The departmental view of the position, as ascertained by a Post representative is this. Heretaunga is a station that has been established for quite a considerable period, and the department has had sufficient time to arrive at, a calculation of the traffic coming to and from that place. Every week there is a steady stream of golfers to the etation — a stream that is always on tho increase— and the traffic there had assumed proportions which justify a shelter. Melling, on the other hand, is :iot a station in the exact sense of the term. For the convenience of dwellers in that locality it was constituted a "half in connection with the motor-car service, and it was never contemplated that » "halt" carried with it the necessity of building a shelter. The development of all such places is closely watched, snd V/hen the traffic is seen to have assumed sufficient proportions to justify such a step, further facilities and conveniences are provided. At present, the lepartment has not had sufficient opportune v of watching the development ot the traffic to justify it in going to the expense of making -Vlelhng anything more "than a "halt," more especially in view of the fact that the Lower Hutt station is equipped to an extent that enables it to deal with suburban traffic, and that a tramway scheme it even now under consideration. The date for receiving nominations Jor the Manav/atu Hundred Maiden Stake (courting) has been extended to 24t.h inst. It is stated that Mr Coomb.?, editor of the Sydnuy Rpfere?, and Me?sis Arnsr, and Welch liitend to be present at the competitions A notice to shareholders lv the Bank of New Zealand regarding payment of a dividend and bonus appears in ouv ad^ ertising columns.