AUCKLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 2661, 15 March 1905, Page 34

AUCKLAND.

The Hon. J. Carroll, who arrived at Hamilton on Friday, interviewed by the Waikaro Times, said the question of coaling with noxious weeds would have to be cc nsid&red as a whole and dealt with comprehensively as regards settled lands, Ciown lands, and Native lands. He intended to confer witli the more intelligent of the Native people with th& view of finding a method of coping with weeds on Native lands. Mr Carroll proceeded to Rotorua on Saturday. He will remain there a fortnight, and then return to Auckland, and immediately sail for Gisborne. Search parties have been out since Thursday night for Elizabeth Peak, aged 27, daughter of Mr John Peak, Newton, who was recently in a melancholy state. There is not the slightest clue as to her whereabouts. It was stated at a meeting of the Trades and Labour Council that the colony was being flooded with imported American vehicles to the serious detriment of the local industry. A Christchurch firm imported 100 American vehicles and sold them at 100 per cent, under prices for which the local manufacturers produce the same goods. It was iero"ved to urge the Government to impose an increased tax on vehicles imported in parts or complete. Mr H. S. Wardell. S.M., cancelled a pension certificate on Friday on the grounds that the pensioner" was not complying with the provisions of lha act, it having been shown lie had recently on seveial occasions been the worse for liquar.

Natives from all pai'ts of the district have been visiting Waihi this week, tho occasion being a tansp over the remains of Eonana Maioho, a Rangatira of noble blood and uncle of M;>huta. There were two other corpses in tJ /O settlement (that of a Native from Onehui.ga and that of a little boy who met his doith by falling into a well at

Waihi). The triple interment took place on Wednesday. i An inspection of fruit auction rooms by I Mensrs W. A. Boucher and G, Harnett, ' Government fruit inspectors, resulted in several lines of fruit badly infected with codlin moth being condemned and its sale prohibited. A marked improvement is noticeable in the fruit offered for sale by retail dealers, little or no moth-infected fruit being exposed for sale. Pome of the grocers and hawkers, however, still fail to realise that they are liable to a penalty under t heOrchard and Garden Pests Act for being ia possession of and offering moth-infected fruit for sale.