DOINGS IN OCTOBER.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 258, 30 October 1926, Page 14

DOINGS IN OCTOBER.

EVENTS Or THE MONTH.

FROM FAR AND NEAR,

1. Cobham arrives Home after epochmaking night to Australia and back. 2. Steamer Opua ashore near Palliser. 3. Maori Rugby team defeat the Basques after exciting match at Bayonne. 4. Waitemata Power Board building opened. 5. Body of Rev. Mother Mary Joseph Atibert laid to rest at the Karori cemetery. 6. General yon Seeckt resigned command of the Reichswehr. 7. Reds gain ground in the warfare raging in China. 8. Canterbury's best dozen beauties announced. 9. Auckland Commercial Travellers' new club opened by Minister of Labour. 10. Suzanne Lenglen begins her career as a professional tennis player. 11. Early colonists celebrate arrival of the pioneer settlers of 1842. 12. The Government's inadequate measures to relieve unemployment criticised in Auckland on the occasion of a Ministerial visit. . 13. Snowfalls in North and South. 14. Diocesan Synod of Church of England opened. 15. Lord Oxford resigns leadership of English Liberals. 16. New Zealand golf championship meeting opened at Miramar. 17. New Zealand League team heat Hull 15 to 3. 18. British Cabinet decided not to interfere again coal 'trouble. 19. Magnificent collection of art objects, valued at £5,000,000, discovered by a Swedish archaeological mission in Peoponnesus., 20. Imperial Conference opened in London. 21. Hurricane in Havana caused great havoc. 22. "Miss Canterbury" celebrates her 16th birthday. 23. Report of commission concerning new Civic Square scheme published. 24. Mr. Coates, Premier of New Zealand, "went up" in a small aeroplane at great air pageant at Croydon. 25. Brilliant weather for Labour Day. 26. Final quarterly criminal sessionopened at Supreme Court, with comparatively light list of 21 cases. 27. Tom Heeney's defeat of Jack Stanley in London announced. 28. Inaugural meeting of the No. 2 Licensing Authority held at Takapuna. 29. Heavy slip in Manawatu Gorge stops rail traffic for two days. 30. Auckland's selected twelve beauties announced.