DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1934, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] SI ISTEN A NCE PAY MENTS WELLINGTON, May 11. Support, was given by the Makara. County Council, 1.0-day. to the resolution carried at a public meeting at Palmerston North protesting against (he sustenance payments to unemployed, instead of employment, at former rates, in places where approved capital works could not be found. A resolution was passed expressing the opinion that the Unemployment Board should find futher avenues of work for the unemployed. (JAMARU RATES. OAMARU, May 10.

The Oaniarn Borough Council f in- j isli. the financial year with a credit, hrlaiice of C 3 100. It was decide.l lonight to reduce the rates by three-j pence. This menus reductions m the | rales since 11)28 totalling one shilling | and one penny in the pound, leaving] the average rate at. three shillings and j ninepence. 'him Council decided to urge the Governmeni to accede to the request of the Dunedin Board for the immediate erection of an Obstetric Hospital at Dunedin, and to accept the generous offer of £6OOO from the Dunedin Savings Bank towards the object. SUNDAY TENNIS. AUCKLAND, May 1.0. The Auckland City Council to-night rescinded, by 11 votes Io 10, a motion which it had cariied by 10 to 9 on .April 19, to repeal its by-law prohibiting Sunday tenuis on those courts that, arc under the Council’s control. Earlier in the evening the Council heard a deputation from the Auckland Lawn Tennis Association, wh’.ch stated that, out of the forty-eight clubs in the metropolitan area, with a membership of 3300, thirty-six with a membership of 2400 had Sunday play. Six of the remainder of the clubs desired it, but they were debarred. Six clubs, with a. membership of 500, did not desire it, and two of these were debarred. Applications from Communist and unemployed organisations to hold evening’ street, meetings were refused by the City Council to-night.