MEETING OF CABINET.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 21, 22 May 1912, Page 2

MEETING OF CABINET.

APPOINTMENTS AND ALLOCATIONS. (Per Press Association A Wellington, May 21. At a meeting of the Cabinet it was resolved to add largely to the number of weather forecast stations in the .Dominion, bringing the total number of stations up to 200. The following appointments were made:—Mr P. S. K. Macassey, to succeed Air T. Neave, as assistant law officer in tire Crown Law Office; Air T. AY. Adams, to a seat on the Canterbury College Board of Governors; Mr A. W. Hogg, to a scat on the Victoria College Council; Air J. Georgetti, for a further terra as a member of the Wellington Land Board; -Messrs Bunny, Donald, Udy, and Gilpin, members of the Wairarapa Licensing Committee; Air J. A. Marshall, Hokitika High School Board; Alessrs Mark Cohen and T. H. Harrison, trustees of the Dunedin Savings Bank; Air J. Gordon, member of the Ohinemuri Licensing Committee ; Rev. Air Summers, Auckland University College Council.

The purchase of 100 acres as qa addition to the Seacliff Asylum grounds was, approved:. A £i foil £1 subsidy up to £2OOO was granted on the Oliver bequest to Otago University. The construction of a pneumatic tube , (>etween film f old (and t new, post office, bpilding qt Auckland was. authorised

Grants were approved for expenditure out of money voted by Parliament as follows-Waihou and Ohinemuri improvement scheme, £1000; Cat-lins-Waimahaka railway, £3750; Law-rence-Roxhurgh railway, £1500; Midland railway, £3000; South Island Main Trunk railway, £3000; North AucldamJ railway, £4000; railway material, £11,000; Gisborne-Mdtu railway, £2500.