RELIEF WORKERS'INSURANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 16, 19 July 1932, Page 8

RELIEF WORKERS'INSURANCE

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"Oiie "who Knows" ■writes correcting an impression that- may have been conveyed by a summary'of an-earlier Jetter. "I did not make the general statement that local body. insurance had been reduced by 50 per cent:... . The facts are the Lower Htttt Borough Council called for tenders for all' its insurance, and as the combined offices offered a reduction .equivalent to 60 .per cent,. on the Tatcs that had_ previously been ruling they got the business." ■ '

[This letter and the earlier one have beon abridged.-—EdJ s

FRUIT BARROWS

BYLAW SUSPENDED

STANDS SOLD AGAIN

A little over, a month ago the City Council decided, to tighten up the;conditions of licence' under which fruit may be sold from barrows in the city streets, insisting, among other things^ that the barrows must be of standard dimensions and must be glassed in. The Hindu barrowmen replied by refraining from making a single bid when the quarterly licence sales were held, just after that meeting of the council, arid the only Stand sold went to a European. Last Thursday evening the council,' on the recommendation of the Health Committee, decided'to suspend the- enforcement of the' new "conditions for three months, and yesterday afternoon the stands were put up for auction again, and were all sold, though at lower prices than for the July quarter of last year, with one exception. :

In effect, the Hindus declared the stands "black" while the more stringent bylaw .applied,! their ; contention being' that-..-.the conditions applied to them were: more stringent and harassing than are applied to other: vendors of fruit. ' .

The prices paid yesterday were as follows::— ■ .

: July quarter. .1931. 1932; .-.■•• - , £. s d £ s dTramways, Courtenay ■: ■>■''■ place ...../:.:.. 37 0 0>27 0 0 Tory street-Courtenay place 46 0 0 40 0 0 Vivian. street-Cuba street- ............. .28 0 0 19 5 0 Ghuznee street ...... '4010 0 30 10 : 0 Garrett street .....,' 32 , 0 0 18 0 0 Dison street. 13 17 6 13 17 6 Royal Hotel, Lambton ■■..-' ..'.' ' quay ..„.....<.. 34 10 0 17 0 0 National Hotel, Lanib- \ - '.ton.quay ~......:. 39 0 0 26 0 0 Panama street ....." 500 0. 38 10 O Featherston street ■-.-. 16 10; 0 '8 10 0 Bowen street-Lamb- ; ■ ' " ' ton quay ....;;.'.. 66 0 0 68 0 0 Dispatch Office, Lamb- - jtOrt quay ..-... ;60 0 0 56 10 - 0 Thorndpn Waiting . : , ■Shed' ............. 900 -No bid Emmett street '.;.;. 610 0 No bid Totals .'■ :.......-.. 463 7 6' 363 12 6 It .will, be: noted .that the; ,Bowen street-Lambton quay stand : alone brought a higher price than for the same quarter of last year. The price paid, £68 for three; months, is 'a fairly respectable small shop rent, and suggests that the turnover at this stand is considerable.- .■ -: Probably., the fruit ./.'stand's question will be debated once'more at the next meeting of the council, for whonc Councillor.W..Dnncari, some time ago, tabled a motion: to. the effect that .the street stands should, be ; abolished, it !was der cided to defer, 'consideration' for six months, ■which period will espire 'next month. Opinion is still very much divided among councillors.on the question, but the.£'l2oo, to £1400.0r more which the council, receives from the sale of the stands is not to bo lightly put-aside just at present.. . ' .. ...