AUCKLAND NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 393, 18 April 1902, Page 2

AUCKLAND NEWS.

SECONDARY EDUCATION,

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Auckland, last night. A deputation from the Onehunga School Committee waited upon tho Board of Education to ascertain whether tho

Board was willing to recommend that the Onehunga public school be established as a high school. Mr Blades opposed the application, because if tho concession were granted to Onehunga, any of the city or suburban school committees might make a similar application, and such a step would menace the secondary schools. Tho application had been made on account of the number of people who could not afford to pay fees for secondary education. Mr Luke considered that tho establishment of high schools would be a step in the right direction. The Chairman thought that the Board might grant the request and recommend the application to Government, and he moved in that direction. The motion was adopted unanimously.

THE BAPTIST CHURCH. Tho Ponsonby Baptist Church members have resolved to givo a unanimous call to tho pastorato of the Church to tho Rev. Alfred North, of Calcutta, once Baptist Minister of Hanover Church, Dunodin.

HEALTH PRECAUTIONS. According to tho regulations persons arriving from infected ports are bound to report themsolves periodically to tho Health Officer. Some persons who arrived recently from Sydney, being desirous of proceeding to tho Hot Lakes district, enquired whether it was absolutely necessary to remain in Auckland. As such a course might causo groat inconvenience to tourists it has boon arranged that visitors so situated shall first report themselves to Dr Macgill, who will grant a certificate allowing them to proceed to any place, provided they report themselves regularly to the doctor at that place.

GOVERNMENT AND COUNCIL. The City Council to-night rejected tho site at Otahuhu for abattoirs. Other sites approved by tho Council have been rejected by Government, and the Council now rejects the only site which has tho Government approval, tho feeling being that they should not be compelled to erect abattoirs on a site which they regard as unsuitable, and as tho Government approve of the Otahuhu site and no other they should erect the abattoirs.

PEACE SOCIETY’S PROTEST. Tho Committee of tho Auckland Pcaco Association passed a resolution, expressing regret at tho language reported to have been used by Mr Seddon in the recent address to tho Maoris at Paparoa. They feel that Mr Seddon’s conduct in advocating a reversion to the savage methods of warfare is unworthy of any Englishman, and especially unbecoming for a Minister of tho Crown, and unless emphatically repudiated by tho peoplo of New Zoaland the use of such language by their Premier will inflict a serious injury on the reputation of the colony.