AUCKLAND NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1505, 13 July 1905, Page 3

AUCKLAND NEWS.

, HEAVY RAINFALL. (Per Press Association.) Auckland, last night, On 6 of tbo hoavio°.t downpours that liaa boon oxporioneed in Auckland for somo timo foil this morning. Tho roolaimcu land noar tho wator frontage booaine flooded, and tho lowor part of Queen street resembled a small river. The water was quite a foot doop iu placeH, and wbilo the rain lasted it rushed down tho street with great foros, spreading over the footpaths and flooding a huge number of oollars Tho wholo of tho Queen street wharf was also flooded, and tho wator pourod over tho sides. Liberty men going off to H.M.S. Challenger had to wade through Ilia water with their boots slung over thoir shoulders. Tho damage was ootnparaTvely small, as the rain did not las t long.

HOSPITAL BOARD ELECTIONS. Mr Btcomfield, chairman of the Epsom Road Board, referred to tho statement made by the Hon. Hell-Jooos, that ho was introducing a Bill which would plaoo hospital board elections on the same footing u» parliamentary oleoiioes. Mr Bloomfield s;iid ho was natisfiod this was going too far, but he roalLed thst tho present method of oleotiDg mouibt.s of hospital beards should bo placed in tho hands of tho ratepayers. It would be unfair to looal bodies it non-rntepayeis were allowed to spend tho money of those who paid rnfe3. Ifcjwas decided to eudei-vour to get a conference of tbo local bodies to cousiler the matter.