AUCKLAND MATTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 30 April 1907, Page 2

AUCKLAND MATTERS.

Per Press Association. Auckland, April 2!l. I he lion, Geo. I'Ynvlds has presented to the Auckland Art Gallery an oil painting of his father, the late Matthew h'owlds, which was hung in the Art Gallery at the late New Zealand Exhibition. Hie picture represents the late Mr. Fowlds ill his hundredth year engaged in weaving blankets. "

I he Minister for Murine has directed the holding of enquiries into the recent collision in the harhor of the steamers Kotomahana and Kestrel and of the Ivanieri and Dawn.

At a meeting of those engaged in the Auckland oyster trade, held' to-night, Mae opinion was expressed ihal I lie Irlll "f o],cning the beds in s- ii.ms w . h detrinientjil to the industry. The closing »l the Mahnurangi beds IoY i h.. |;i n i s £ "i- seven years had resulted In the death , 11 "limber I,l' oysters tliroich clustering, and it was believed (lie same thing would happen at Waikekei and other places. The beds proposed ( u j 1( , opened by the Minister would not o| V e a fori night's fishing to (he whole" of them. The beds were better I'or periodieal thinning out. It. was resolved to wait 011 the lion. Mr. Millar in connection with the matter.