AUCKLAND NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1581, 11 October 1905, Page 3

AUCKLAND NEWS.

(Per Press A'sflooia'titen.y Auckland, last night T>nrine September the New Zealand Crown Ilines, Limited, treated 2041. tons nf ore for bullion valued at £6295, ° At the Hospital and Charitable Aid ■Rnard meeting yesterday afternoon the honorary* medical staff made a tentative sußßestion in respect ronnfred at the hospital. They suggested ihat a definite plan should be resolved ?pon with the object of providing 800 beds, divided into medical, eurgioal, and ° 4 Mr SB< MoLe"od, at ' the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board meeting, moved that the arohiteot be requested to propare plans and specifications for an mfirmary ward at the Oostley Home, and also a day room for male inmates. He Ba > d necossary that auoh a place should be established, because of the congestion that I already existed at tbe hospital. It mig be made the nucleus of a permanent j ward for confirmed invalids. He did not propose that the oost should fall directly on the ratepayers, but ehould oomo oat o loan money which they hoped to get. Mr Brown asked if the sohems was for the Oostley Home inmates or inourables V Mr MoLeod: For the inmates to begin with. Later on, possibly, it might develop into a chronio invalids’ ward. The motion was

o (j Alfred Schofield died at the hospital from burns sustained at his parents’ residence two weeks ago. Patrick Cotter, a police constable, was fined 10a and costs for drunkenness. Accused was seen drunk in the street on, the evening of the day on which the Police Oommiosion concluded its Auokland sit tines Two witnesses stated tnat Ootter was too drunk to light his _pipe, and attempted ineffectually to ascend the steps to a hotel. Cotter denied these allegations, ana asserted ha waa sober, but oalled no NitHMWIi V