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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 155, 1 July 1919, Page 1

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Plenty of coal available for Auckland's peace illuminations. Three-day trips on fie Main Trunk line start to-morrow. A gratuity.of. £20 is to be awarded to soldiers who won the D.-C.M. The Military Police Corps -was demobilised yesterday throughout New Zealand. The Auckland electric tramways started their career as a municipal-run service to-day. The English Bowling Association has arranged for -a New Zealand team to visit the United Kingdom in 1920. The two minesweepers at Wellington have been released from quarantine, and are coaling in anticipation of going to sea to-morrow. The Minister of Railways says that the only alternative to a reduced railway service now is an entire suspension very shortly. The barquentine Laura, towed into Wellington in a sinking condition on Sunday, has been pumped dry, and the main leak stopped. Waihi Borough Council has made increased charges and retrenchments in expenditure to improve its finance amounting to £3970. The Customs duty collected at the port of Auckland in June amounted to £84,779, or £25,311 above what was collected in June last year. The "Zukunft" asks the German Government to cease chattering ahout Germany's honour, and refute, if it can, the Allies' statements concerning her guilt. Wellington is moving for the erection of a National Art Gallery in that city as a Peace Memorial, and an offer has been made to raise £10,000 for that purpose.

Bargains from our big busy dress department.—New check gabardines, 4/6; now 3/6. New Roxana, all colours, 3/9; now 2/6; Diagonal, 3/11; now 2/11; all •_oin.—Tudehope's Sale, Symonds St. Ad. For smartly cut and well tailored suits, Chas. Vernon and Co., leading place in town.—B, Wellesley Street. —Ad. Ladies' natural vests 3/11, combinations 2/11J, corsets at big reductions, cashmere hose 3/11—Goddin, draper, near tram barn, Ponsonby.—(Ad.) Special prices for furs; blouses in great variety at Boudoir, Karangahape Koad, near Grafton.—(Ad.) Sale prices: White flannelette, 1/1 J, 1/2 A, 1/6*; Horrockses', yard wide, 1/11. and 2/3. —Goddin, draper, near tram barn, Ponsonby.—(Ad.) Bakers' exhibitions awarded highest honours for cakes, scones, etc., made with Clover Cream. Better than cream of tartar; half the price. Merchants and grocers stock it; II- per Jib. packet.—J. W. Bayley and Co., Auckland. 'Phone 2948.—(Ad.)