TELEGRAMS.
(Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 29. A valuable business block at the comer of Queen street and Vulcan lane was sold to the City Council for £60,000. The purchase was made in furtherance of the city schema to widen Vulcan lane from 16ft to 32ft. The price works out at £IOOO a foot, NEW PLYMOUTH, March 29. The Customs revenue for the port of New Plymouth for the 12 months is £96,987, compared with £69,998 for the previous year. BLENHEIM, March 29. The Blenheim branch of the Post and Telegraph Officers’ Association passed a resolution protesting against the burden of taxation by the imposition of two unjustified cuts in salaries, amounting to £25 per annum, and as the Government had thought fit to revert to the 1914 postal and telegraph rates, etc., it should also place salaries on i a grade equal in purchasing value io that I received in 1914. The association felt sure 1 that this would greatly assist in removing, J the discord and disco, tent at present rife < in the service. ’ Reclassification for a period ; of live years was about; to take place, and • they were only asking for the justice they considered was greatly overdue.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19134, 31 March 1924, Page 7
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202TELEGRAMS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19134, 31 March 1924, Page 7
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