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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 305, 24 December 1926, Page 1

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Ideal Christmas Drink—Lion Pale Ale. lAd ) A Merry Christmas! The Rotorua arrived this lnoniiv,' from London with 203 immigrants. Christmas centre bowling tournament. starts on Monday on a number of local greens. The Ponsonby Swimniinp Club"* Christmas Day gala at the Shelly Beach baths to-morrow. Ten new companies have been registered in Auckland this week. Getting in before Christmas! The Auckland cricket team starts thu first match of the Plunket Shield tour at Christchurch to-morrow. Members of the Auckland Hospital Board visiting to-day the main hospital and Infirmary, which have been decorated for the festive season. Remarkable mishap in.a Napier Street garage this morning; an old sewer collapsing, and two motor cars being engulfed in the chasm. The A.R.C. summer carnival opens at Ellerslie on Monday, when the Auckland Cup, the most richly-endowed handicap in New Zealand, will be run. Last evening Christmas gifts were distributed among the children of the Princess Mary Hospital by the Mayor and Mayoress of Newmarket. The Auckland Automobile Association has issued a warning to motorists about the excessive speed at which cars are being run over the Taupo Road. The city traffic department have completed arrangements for the control nf traffic during the race week. Attention will be chiefly centred on Remuera and Ellerslie. Special night trains leave this evening for Rotorua and Whangarci. and bynoon sufficient passengers to fill ten carriages had booked seats on the Whangarei specal. The Auckland Suburban Cricket Association's annual tournament opens at the Domain to-morrow with a match, Waikato v. Suburban, and continues the following week. Racing on Monday at Waipukuran, Hurunui, Westland, Duuedin, New Plymouth and Palmerston North. Trotting at Ashburton. Gore, Clareville (Wairarapa), and Westport. A young man of 19 years named Wil«| liam Huxtable was killed last evening through a motor car in which he was X: passenger falling 15ft over a in Ponsonby and crushing him. The peak of the railway Christmas traffic was reached last night and today. Four trains left for Wellington yesterday, and four more are leaving to- : ; day, while five are arriving to-day from' Wellington. First public appealance of the N.S.W. lawn tennis team to-morrow, when the members will play a series of exhibition matches against an Auckland team. The New Zealand championships open at tha Stanley courts at 9 a.m. on Monday, and will be continued throughout the I week. Send flowers for Christmas. Arrange* ment made for delivery Xmas morning , . 'Phone Miss Carney, 21, Karangahape Road, 40-035.—(Ad.) Tell your friends who are run down that Hall's Wine is the best restorative. (Ad.) ' Automatic TVc-stinghouse electric irons, 42/6, and all electrical Xmas gifts. Turnbull and Jones, Ltd., Wellesley St. E. Ad. Ballin and Russell's dental offices will remain open during the holidays.— (Ad.) Keen buyers invited to greatest sale ever held. Rings, watches, clocks, jewellery, silver, silverplate ware, art china, cut glass, etc. Displayed half-price and less. Choose gifts now. David Silk's 2 jewellery stores, Queen St. Small deposits taken.— (Ad.) Second-band jewellery bought, cold, renewed, exchanged or remade. New designe submitted. — David Silk's two Jewellery Stores, Queen St.— (Ad.)