MEW ZEALAND NEWS ITEMS AUCKLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 28

MEW ZEALAND NEWS ITEMS AUCKLAND.

The Auckland Harbour Board proposes < to inorease the salaries of its officials. It has been recommended in the case of the engineer (Mr W. H. Hamer) that his salary should be increased from £1000 to £1250 per annum; in that of the secretary and treasurer (Mr J. M. Brigham) that he should reecive "£BOO a year instead of £650; and in that of the harbour master (Captain A. Duder) that he should be paid £100 a year extra, or £500 per annum. The total increases recommended involve a sum of something like £1500 per annum. The subject* has been referred to a committee. The New Zealand Government's action in disposing of large supplies of obsolete rifles and ammunition held as a reserve has been followed by the Fijian Government. An Auckland firm this morning completed a contract with the Fijian Government by which a large shipment of Snider and Martini-Henry rifles and ammunition will find its way into the Dominion. The Auckland nrille have reduced the price of flour to £13 per ton, lesa discount. In the Magistrate's Court on the 16th, before Mr Kettle, S.M., Roderick Finlayson, police constable, of Newmarket, was charged on .three indictments with having assaulted Thomas Henry Paker, at Newmarket, by striking him on the head several -times with a police baton, and by grasping him from behind by botli shoulders and kicking him on < the leg, thus causing him actual bodily harm. Accused, who pleaded " Not guilty " and reserved his defence, was committed for j trial. J