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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 288, 5 December 1929, Page 1

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Sydney wool market still firm. Mining tragedy in Lanarkshire. Fire at Melbourne caused £50,000 damage. London scheme for traffic co-ordina-tidh. Effort at Tauranga to secure aviation ground. Welcome given to Viscount Craigavon at Hamilton. Two school girls drowned at Thirroul, •N.S.W., in surf. School dental service to be extended in Auckland district. Blood-thirsty looting by mutinous troops at Puthow, China. The price of rabbit skins slumped badly in Dunedin yesterday. Night firing carried out last evening in Gulf by H.M.s. Dunedin. _ Rev. G. E. Moreton appointed assistant city missioner in Auckland. More evidence given this moraine before Harbour Bridge Commission. Soviet Government opposed to American views on Manchurian question. Steamer Kaiapoi delayed leaving Auckland through trouble with crew. ; Commission to sit on question of formmg One Tree Hill area into borough. Position in balance in connection with New South Wales coal miners' dispute. British airmen to attempt nonstop flight from England to South Africa. Mr. F. E. Fenton, Minister of Customs, will represent Australia at Naval conference. ' Nine vessels and 70 persons missing in hurricane disaster on coast of Newfoundland. Eleven of crew drowned in wreck of steamer Norwich City at P'jbenix Group, north of Samoa. Lorry wrecked by railway engine on Avondale crossing this morning and driver injured. Creditors of John Edward Mortimer, agent, of Auckland, met to-day, when an offer was provisionally accepted. Commission appointed to consider inclusion of small part of Birkenhead Borough in Waitemata County. President Hoover recommends reduction of taxation in U.S.A.; always followed by stimulus to business. _ N.S.W. basic wage expected to be £4 3/6 for man, wife and one child, allowance of 5/ per child after first. Italian political refugee states that Mussolini has not got confidence of people; terrible torture for anti-Fascists reported. •

Father and five children perished in farm home at Alfred, Ontario; mother saved other two children but broke both her legs. • J. T. Lanp, Leader of Labour Opposition in N.S.W. Parliament forced to leave chamber last night consequent on refusal:to withdraw remark. Sales on 'Change to-day were: Commercial Bank of Australia, £1 6/; farmers' Fertiliser, £ 1 2/6j Waihiy 13/8; N.Z. ahd River Platey £1 11/Sr ' ■ No one should miss to-morrow'e huge ,sa<?rifice6 6t < Empire Furriers', great clear«■ an ce sale, opposite Tbwn Hkll.—:(Ad.) Xmas brides! Special display of wedding bouquets Friday evening at Misß Carney's, 21, Karangahape Road (near Tivoli r7jieatre). Book on wedding etiquette" free.—(Ad.) Wonderful bargains to-morrow at Empire Furriers. Musquash and Russian marmot coats reduced to almost onethird usual. —Only address: Opp. Town Hall.—(Ad.) Sydney's latest hats. New shipment just arrived, black and navy.—Miss Dixons, 166 A, Queen Street —(Ad:) The.Empire's sale ie the biggest event in the history of the fur trade. Every coat, stole and fox reduced by half.— Only address: Opp. Town Hall.—(Ad.)