AUCKLAND NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVII, Issue 12850, 24 June 1902, Page 6

AUCKLAND NEWS.

[Pes Press Association.] ~- ■ ' " -AUCKLAND, June 23. ■ ''; '-'"The Auckland Trades and Labour Couu- • has decided to revive- the demonstrations Vri Labour Day. About fourteen' Unions have signified their intention to take part. ■ A'.claim under the Workers' Compensa-, tion for Accidents Act has been lodged by Thomas Parlby, of Paeroa, a yardman employed by -William Forrest and R. 0. Clark, timber merchants, who had one of M» feet crushed .while repairing a gas engine. Plaintiff was incapacitated for somo tim«, and .claims £300.. •At a meeting of the Hospital Board yesterday the Chief Medical Officer reported that the fire appliances at the hospital were Tery inadequate, and the means of escape in certain pacts of the .Nurses' Home most unsatisfactory. The matter was referred to the' Board's architecb with a view of steps being taken to remedy the matter. At a meeting of the Charitable Aid Eoard the secretary drew attention to the fact that there were certain practically incurable cases in the hospital that might well 'bo removed to the Costley Home, where the cost of their maintenance would not reach half the amount, if there was only Toom at the latter institution. The Costley Home was, in a -congested state at present, and it was necessary that something should be done to meet these- cases. The matter was allowed to drop. At a meeting of the Auckland Benevolent' Society the balance-sheet showed that the receipts during the year amounted to £l6lO, including a, legacy of £IOOO received froan the executors of the late William Arrowsmith, £SO in collections and donations, and £556 in Government subsidies, the principal subsidy being £SOO on the Arrowstnith bequest. The sum of £725 •was disbursed during the year, leaving a credit of £795 at the end of March. The Chairman'said 1 that there was no doubt #hat the society would have to make a call on the public in November next. The expenditure was £6O or £7O a month. The Rev W. E. Gillam said that the extent of " ' quiet poverty amongst-respectable people "in the city would be quite appalling were it generally known. , A meeting of city householders was hejjd . to-night for the election of w school comK jnlttee in place of the committee which resigned in April in order to show dissatisfaction with the -action of the Education * Board in. connection, with the appointment of two teachers, the committee holdsing that it had not baen properly consult- "■' fed. *■ The meeting -passed .a vote of thanks to the committee, and*the majority of the ■even who offered 'themselves were reelected. " .