AUCKLAND NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10303, 22 March 1894, Page 6

AUCKLAND NEWS.

[Pbb Press Association, i AUCKLAND, March 21. Messrs Bedford and Carpenter interviewed the Hon J. G. Ward, and obtained a promise of a lean of for the Thames’BoroU'xb, subject to the usual condilions. A similar request for the Hat hour Board was deterred pending fuller.iufocmatioa. A slight dispute over Crown land, has occurred-between the Survey Office end acme Maoris near Tairua, Esst Coast. A constable baa been aenfc fifteen miles inland from Tairua. to icvesHgato affairs. At the Supreme Court C. J. Humfreys, for larceny as a-bailee, was sentenced to nine mouths’imprisonment. The last scene in the Devonport School inquiry war enacted at the Board of Education peaterday. At a previous meeting the Brard de. iaed to place Mr Bongo’s name upon the Lst for employment. At present there ii; ». vacancy at tbe Woodnida School, acd the Board, sent on to the committee the names' of teachers. The committee drained to accept any of those forwarded, and asked '.he Board to appoint Mr Benge. Mr Ucy s»id that Mr Benge had forfeited bis ri;;r>.t inasmuch as be had broken the regulations by personally canvassing the committee. Mensrs Cooptr and Wilkino pointed our. that Mr Benge was notin tbe Eoard’e employ as be was dismissed witheut notice, and was not subject to the Board’d teeul'il'or.s. It was decided that Mr Benge ehou d bs appointed head master of tho Vv’oodviiio School at a salary of A 135 a year. A resolution of tbe com..mittee regarding the finances ot the Board rerommended that the salaries of all teachers ami officers above with the exception of tho secretary and accountant, should be reduced as follow: Salaries above 22200 and not exceeding .£220, to tho race cf 23200 per annum; calasiei above £220 to be reduced 10 per cent per annum. The discussion was adjourned. It is understood that the Premier will give au address in Auckland on hie return from the north, probably on Tuead&y next.