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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 222, 18 September 1919, Page 1

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» Heavy booking- for to-morrow's extra express South. Hon. W. H._Herries suggests special colliers for railways. Moeraki to sail for Sydney from Auckland about October 1. One Tree Hill Board wants minimum fare trams to Onehunga. • Wellington beat Auckland, 24 to 3, in Kanfurly Shield football match. Cabinet considering another miners? conference to end the coal trouble. Prime Minister will announce soldieraf gratuities in Parliament this week. Complaint is made of mischievous damage by youths in Waikowhai Park. Permit system on railways may "be abolished next week, says Mr. Massey. Waikato trading steamer Free Trader "snagged" near Cambridge yesterday. Electric light current from the city i 3 to be extended to Mount Roskiil district. Retired miner, John Henderson, collapsed and died on Dunedin railway station. Two land ballots for soldier settlements to be drawn in Auckland this week. Mr. Win. Ferguson replaces Mr. _\ V. Frazer, S.M., as chairman Public Service Board. Body of single woman, Gertrude Knight, (49), found on Makara Beach, WellingtonGovernment is disposed to use Wolf Home, Auckland, as intermediate mental hospital. Young man, Hirdy, badly injured hy motor car overturning on Marangi 'Hill, near Wanganui. "Output up to normal again," was reported yesterday from two small coal mines in Otago. Seventy-nine years ago to-day Governor Hobson hoisted the British flag over the site of Auckland. The child drowned at St. Mary's Bay beach yesterday is identified as. Gordon Cowley, aged two years. Auckland ironworkers' assistants still decline overtime work unless a war bonus is added to the pay. The Auckland Savings Bank has subscribed £100,000 to the Liberty Loan, making its war loan record £550,000. Auckland Society of Accountants contributed £2,338 to patriotic funds, and took up war loan bonds valued at £1,000. Fifteen minutes' paid smoke-o to every two hours' toil claimed by Auckland meat preservers in industrial dis-