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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 241, 8 October 1920, Page 1

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AVhite Island reported to be unusually active. Fruit and vegetables in plentiful supply. locally. Baptist conference in session; picnio to-morrow. Country waiting for Butter Commit* tee's report. Decision reserved in detective inquiry. Territorial refresher camp at Trent* ham next week. Niagara got away for Sydney at 11 o'clock last night. Good i>rosueets for the stone fruit crop of the cominp season. Auckland hockey rep. team plays Thames to-morrow at Thames. Ihumata due from Newcastle this evening with 1000 tons of coal. Eleven Auckland medical students left for Otago "University last night. Retail price of new season's butter in Auckland going iin to 2/11 next week. Coal prospects neither much better nor. much worse. Pukemiro still doing nothing. Five patients of Narrow >Teek military hospital marooned on Rangitoto last night. Maheno due from Sydney on Monday morning with 247 saloon and 149 steerage i>assengers. Christchureh publicans contemplatemeasuring the' "nip"—at present a very variable quantity. Kanna's coal cargo again delayed. Will probably not leave Westport until middle of next week. The question cf the day used to be, "How are you keeping?" It now is, "How are you cooking?" Christchureh report states that Vesteys paid Imperial Government 6d per lb. for beef stored in Dominion. Two Wellington doctors before Pull Court on a charge of grave impropriety arising out of a recent seduction case. Bill to postpone the operation of the Act providing for an elective Cotmcft put through all stages by Houee last •night and passed. The Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science holds rte fifteenth meeting in Hobart, commencing on January 5 next. Colliers Meikai Maru and Haruna San Mam, each with about 4000 tone of coal, expected to sail from Newcastle this Auckland this week or early next. About the only drapery and clotihing Sale now on is at Economic (opp. Town Hall). Great bargains.—(Ad.) Astonishing reductions in men's wear at B. J. M. Kemp's, Queen Street, for 10' I days only. Don't miss this! See .windows.— (Ad.) T:ie best place for ready-to-wear suite is Todd, James and Co., Clothing Manufacturers, Wakefield Street. —(Ad.)