NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 631, 7 October 1909, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

(By Tolesr&pU.—Prees Association.)

' . AUCKLAND DRAINAGE.-.,. " EXPENDITURE • OVER - < .Auckland, October tf. , -The contract for. theVfiret ecctiori of tin Aucklnnd ' nnd • suburban drainage schcmc,, in* f volving an expenditure by 'the drainage board ' of, over • ,€12,000 of tho- Joan'-'money ' raised', foi • the purpose/-was lnt to*day ? nt a'meiiting ofHh* ! Works Committee-set up *fo ; deal with .the ten* derf=. • The . successful■: tenderers' were Messrs; Gordon nnd Mays; who secured tbo contract o't . £12,514 • 19s. fld. - By tho-terms, of-the'con«" • tract the work has to be '.commenced practio> ally at once and to be completed ill" 12, months.. It will mean the employment for that period of irom-40• to .50 • men. • committee; to-day decided - to : forthwith- invito • tenders'.--for. two. further cdntracts,:.namely, No., 2'section, of 'the main spwer (another 'work across 'Hobsoii Bay to CampJjeH ■ Tferraco, Parnell), * 'and. also the Arch' Hill gully-branch sewet ;No. 7 (from tho 'end of ' the 'citj. counfcilja present sewer'to the' old "abattoir* Grey Lynn whole leiigth of tho Ss3i/HiU : giuly,; n ith the letting' of tho' cohcraolJ referred to the board' wijl have works in hand involving an.expenditure approximating'^ss,oo®.

v A NEW COALFIELD. • Auckland, October 6. A ne,v coalfield has been discovered about ;w'l.os from Huntly, . afcross .whiph is likely to be developed before lonfe. " An area. of 3000". acres has been taken', up by an..Auckland'.syndicate, in- wnich' tho main ■seam of. coal, averaging '16 ' feet' in; widtii;- 'ia .' reported to, have been traced for' a considerable ' distance, 'a.nd- in "Several' places' tho; coalissaid to be' entirely wafer' free,, being ibovo' both' '; the sea and iresh'-water levelsi' 'It'is'.claimed,, therefore, that it will' bo possiblc to work'the field from adit, levels; and:'to avoid siniinK or 'pumping! The quantity of..coal'.contained m the area is estimated' to be" in-tie neighbourhood of. 45. million tone.: - SLIPS IN MANAWATU.GORGE. . 1 ' .'Woodviile, October 6.'i '_ One big slip in the Gorge was between , two large .tunnels. This was, cleared during; the night, but' a very large one—3oo yards ; in: length—came dowii about a milo inlho Gorg. from the station at tho Woodvi]]r, cnd. There is no chance of this being cleared .but .trains' will' ran to both sides'.of tho j'and" passengers and mails will'bo traasliipped'.,.. . • SINCE NO-LICENSE CAME; / /;/ 1 Masterton, October' s.'" . The' first, quarterly , returns' from the Magis« trato's Court since the advent of ..No-License show a considerable falling-off whoh'compared •with the previous; quarter;- For Ithe-'quarter ending September , 30 there were thirteen con- '. 'mictions for drunkenness,''and for the previous ,i- ; quarter; 85 convictions, while 73 persons .weri-' taken into custody, as against 220 for the pn ceding quarter, and 42' summarily convicted, as against 193. • SOUTH ISLAND MOTOR UNION. , \ . • , , , -Dune'dln, October. 5. ' At. the annual meeting of.the Otago'Moto* Association last night, it'was decided,, owing to the New ' Zealand' Automobile 'Association having;been allowed to lapse, to talce steps to form'an Automobile Association for the South ■ Island. -i V . DISCIPLINE OF MEN. Dunedln. October 8. ' The Otego Rugby tTnion diMnalified for.:tw» years R.'.Fato'n,' a member of the Goldfieldi ' ! . touring, team,'who was fined S3 at Naseby. for Ming, indscent langu&ge.,, , '• . CRICKET COACH FROM AUSTRALIA; • ' .. " Dunedin, :bctober 6i . It-, is - understood that. Macj.rtiiey,' .of thi ' '.Australian eleven, is-the, international 1 player about to settle in .Duhedin. , ~