AUCKLAND NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 980, 28 August 1903, Page 3

AUCKLAND NEWS.

Jper Press Association, AUCKLAND, last night, The Southern members of the New Zealand football team wore passengers by the Botoiti from Ouohunga this afternoon. The Trades and Labor Council passed a Eooolutibn affirming that the Labor Department is doing really substantial work on behalf of labor, and is well worthy of its earnest support. It was stated that the local bureau could place 40 men in private employment, but had no applicants. . A mooting of the Aucklanders Union resolved that altnough it was inadvisable jto pass any repressive orchard legislation, trending the experiments now being conducted, they urge upon the Government, should such legislation be enacted, that ton per cent, allowance be made upon fruit transhipped from one part of the colony to another which presumed to be clean when shipped And found infected at the oort of arrival that infected fruit used for Bulp-making bo allowed to be moved from orchards to the jam factory within its own provincial district; that compensation be made where orchards yielding an income are wholly or partially destroyed, when, extreme action is taken by the authorities. \ Astley’s tanneries at New Lynn were totally destroyed by fire this morDing. The damage amounts to over iouuu. ane insurance in the .Royal is £24?0. The .origin of the fire is unknown. , The barque Esmeralda, 673 tons, f.ft£t Madagascar in ballast for Kaipara during AprU and should have arrived m May or early June. Sbo is much overdue.