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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 260, 3 November 1931, Page 1

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Wool prices rise in Australia. Coalition split in Rotorua constituency. Linesman electrocuted near Te Arolm. Floods in Taranaki highest in living memory. Forecast made of reconstructed British Cabinet. Russia to export no grain this yearor next. Maunganui arrived this morning from Sydney. Australian Federal election befora next June. Mount Albert Borough Council meets this evening. Large homestead on Taranaki farm destroyed by fire. Granting of titles by Vatican to be gratuitous no longer. One killed during arrest of several Communists in Bulgaria. Sunken liner Egypt's ti-easure within grasp of Italian salvagers. Great rejoicing in America at increased prices for oil and wheat. Death of A. J. Cook, secretary of British Miners' Federation. Compulsory conference arranged for Australian shipping strike. Progress of solo airman's attempt on record flight to Australia. Pinto defeated Meeske in rough wrest-, ling match at Town Hall. Village headman's family slaughtered in'attack by Burmese rebels. Party of 300 revolutionaries interned on Portugese island of Timor. Believed Soviet plot, .to disrupt Germany laid bare after police raid. British visitors hissed by Reds during war memorial service at Nice. Two Russian secret. police shot for i execution, of innocent persons. Great interest" in Lord Kylsants ! appeal against conviction in London. I France to maintain armament strength I until permanent peace established. ! Life of adventure following Great War revealed by lost German in Morocco. . Dilwortli Trust Board decided post; pone erection of new school at Wiri. OnehUnga Borough Council to be em= powered to raise drainage loan of _ £4850, Greater overseas and foreign interest in next year's British Industries Fair. Girl aviator in Egypt on attempted record flight from England to Capetown, Southern members of New Zealand, cricket team left for south last evening. Slip on Main Trunk' railway near National Park caused delay to expresses. "Bewildering array" of measures dealt with by House of Representatives last Long-term prisoners given exhibition of latest motor cars in Maidstone gaol, England. Crown prosecutor in. murder trial applied to have a witness treated as hostile. Failure of power supply disorganised signalling at Auckland railway station yesterday afternoon. Commonwealth revenue in October ex. ceeded estimates by £47,000, the first time for over a year. Auckland manufacturers not to take any part in general election in direction of canvassing candidates for support of New Zealand industries. Auckland Power Board . advised that no subsidy on labour employed could be given for extending power service to Beachlands and Maraetai.Sales on 'Change to-day were:—Bank of New Zealand. £2 8/6; Government Loan,.s* (1937) (2), £99 10/; Mount Eden, 5\ (1904), £90; Commercial Bank of Australia, 15/8; New Zealand Insurance, £2 0/3; Colonial Sugar, £34 12/6; Mount Lyell, 19/1; Government Loan, 4-£ (1938), £96 15/.

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