AUCKLAND NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1957, 13 December 1906, Page 4

AUCKLAND NEWS.

I’ItKSS ASSOCIATION Auckland, last night. At a mocking of murohautJ, it waß dc* oidrd that the Govornmonk be r<quested to provide inorcasud accommodation at the railway station iu order to meet tho growing t’ado of tbo oiiy. Tno Auckland Savings B i k has oilorod to Idea up £50.000 worth of Auckland Harbor Board debentures nt 4J per oont., to he pa'd ill instalments cf not loss than £SOOO monthly. Tbo Board decided to accept the oiler. Toe New Z.aland Insurance Company, wh'oh was the first oilioo to resume buduoes in tomporary premises on its own site aftrr (ho San Fraaoitoa earthquake and cor il'igrotion, has made rapid progress with tbo settlement of its losses, and a very close approximate of tho total arr ount can now be made. It is ostimated that when all pojmonis aro completed the tolal net lopsob will not exoeed £285.000 Tbo prompt manner in wbioh tbo settlement of all just lobsos bus been made has pieced tho name of the company in the front rack in Amorioa, and tbo directors bavo rrodved many spontaneous tributes exproning tbo highest praiso at tbo way in which the company has met all its iifthilitior. , , The Eon. Mr McGowan, interviewed with referonoe to ‘bo stoppage of tho harbor works at Groymoutb, said ooal rights wero reserved from the Harbor Board as tho State had a light to do, and tho ground wub being prospiciod by the Government. In tho meantime ho knew there w as goad coal there, and tho Government wished lo save it for the Stalo, but the Greymouth propio wanted to bo paid for it. . . In tbo Sopvcme Court Mr Justioo 13a« wards sontoeo'd L,wis Byron to four years for iudtoout assault on a boy.