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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 151, 29 June 1931, Page 1

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I Iceberg sighted south of Dunedin. .Shipping affected by bad weather. Niagara this morning from Sydney. j Large attendance at King's College n , - I ::• : m. Xumbcr of motoring accidents over week-end. Burglars made £130 haul from Ponsonby shop. Serious breakaway from British Liberal party. Mr. Lang's new wage tax bill before Upper House. Serious fire outbreak in Sydney ''danger zone." Body of elderly woman found in Manukau Harbour. Auckland local bodies to give lees work under scheme five. Doubt cast on report that iceberg wae seen off Otago coast. French Parliament agrees to U.S. Avar debt relief i>roposal. Ballot on strike issue taken among railwaymen in India. Rivers and Hood waters in New South Wales rapidly subsiding. Seven children lose lives in upsetting of rowboat near Quebec. Judgment reserved in Wairoa Freezing Company's insurance claim. Former international Rugby player and son drowned near Sydney. Ugly clash averted between Eeds and police on Sydney Domain. Plans for reconstruction of blue baths at Rotorua again modified. Site for health camp at Waiigaiiui given by anonymous do::-.;r. People of Genoa tern.:■ stricken by four mysterious bomb explosions. Sir Thomas Wilford.it memorial service at Etaples cemetery, France. Lamp of remembrance ami war memorial unveiled at King's School. Special services held yesterday to mark jubilee of Church of Holy Sepulchre. Annual church service of SI. John Ambulance Association held yesterday. Mount Albert Borough Council to di*v cuss increased rates to-morrow evening, Princess Mary witnessed initial flight of England's first aerial Red Cross ambulance. Manly preacher hopes N.S.W. public will refuse payment of Mr. Lang's wage tax. Railway employee at Tau'ranga died as result of blow on head from wireless mast. ■ Part of benefit of wages "cut" by Auckland Gas Company to be passed on to public. Estimated that 400,000 persons have been killed by bandits in Hunan Province of China. Nearly 1,000,000 people watch wonderful air display by R.A.F. at Hendon aerodrome. Withering heat wave across mid-West America causes many deaths and much destruction of property. Major Franco, famous Spanish airman, dismissed from Government post- for counter-revolutionary plotting. 'Sales on. 'Change to-day: New Zealand Insurance, £2 0/9; New Zealand 'Bank, £2 6/6; South British Insurance, £2 11/3;. New Zealand Lpan and Mercantile (ord.), £50; Inscribed Loan, 4 J (1939), £97 17/6.