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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 28 August 1926, Page 1

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Man killed by motor car at Whangarei. Kawarau dam to be closed next Monday morning. North Taranaki Hunt Club's raeee at New Plymouth to-day. The price of bread will go up a half- \ penny a loaf in Auckland on Monday. , Toronto Exhibition opens to-day. [ New Zealand has a court there for the first time. Level crossing fatality at Greatford, near Marton. A woman dead from injuries. Rosehill (N.S.W.) races to-day. A strong contingent of New Zealand horses engaged. Another shoplifter was arrested last night. She was fined £5 this morning and placed on probation for twelve months. The wife of a dairy farmer discovered the homestead ablaze, and though overcome by smoke recovered and escaped with her children. The Canadian Cruiser sails late this afternoon for New York, Boston and Montreal, and the Kairanga arrives from Adelaide to-morrow. Sales on 'Change this morning: Harbour Board's 6 per cents £101 10/, Wilsons cement £1 13/3, Kawarau 5/11, tf, Grand Junction 3/. The Hinemoa arrives from Norfolk Island on Monday morning and sails on Tuesday for Niue. Marama arrives early; on Tuesday from Sydney. The Yoseric has run short of coal oni her way from Nauru Island to Lyttelton, and will put into Auckland on Monday, to replenish her bunkers. Sixteen cases of pneumonic influenza in the past week and one death (at the Thames this morning). There were no cases this week in South Auckland. At the Auckland Stock Exchange today it was announced that shares m the Checker Taxicab Co., which is being floated locally with a capital of £50,000, had been over-subscribed. The cricket match between the Australians and Kent was drawn. Kent declared in the second innings with 219 on for nine wickets (Woollcy 88), and the Australians lost four wickets for 72 runs. Exhaustive investigation been made by Agriculture Department respecting an outbreak of downy mildew, a fungous disease, which has developed in vineyards in the Henderson and surrounding districts this year. It is the first time that the disease has made its appearance in New Zealand.

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