INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12665, 19 January 1912, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. At a meeting of the Hospital Board yesterday, a report was received from , the medical- committee, stating that the provision of the new permanent buildings for the immediate and permanent needs of the hospital, was a matter of the utmost importance. HAWERA,, tliis day. At a well-attended meeting last night, it was decided to form a branch of the New Zealand Sports Protection League and a local executive was elected, comprising representatives of practically every branch of sport in existence in the district. The Taranaki Provincial Executive .of the Farmers' Union yesterday decided to ask the Dominion executive to consider the advisability of appointing an organiser for the North Island. The resignation of the president, Mr J. W. Jones, who is leaving for the Bay of Islands, was accepted with regret. WELLINGTON, this day. Several' Chinese storekeepers were, at theJ?olice Court to-day, fined sums varying from 20s to £3 16s and costs for breaches of the Shops and Offices Act by employing assistants in shops after 9 o'clock. CHRISTCHURCH, this day." In a statement regarding the effect of the increase in wages on railway superannuation, distributed to morning papers by the Press Association, certain opinions were wrongly attributed to Mr R. Hampton. These opinions were those of an another railway servant, interviewed on f.he same day as Mr Hampton. Mr 'Hampton says he agrees with the position Stated by the Department, and adds that the men would secure, however, 1 , if the.hiaVßiage,' allowance were embodied ir^tE« (3}aissific?itK)n Th3 allowance could ha . reduipft?, pr~ revoked altogether by Cabinet/^and a case -ifiight pise in which a man who had been paying into the fund over a series of years 6n a "basis of 9s per day be superannuatje&'ori a basis of the statutory pay of 7s .per day. Mr Hampton said that no complaint lay against the Department or the. Board administering \the law as it existed, but the Amalgamated Society tyoppd to persuade the Government to enrbody the marriage allowance in the classification schedule. DUNEDIN, this day. Eight rinks, representing Dunedin North, beat Auckland bowlers by 185 to 126. ..'<::