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Avondale races. Fatal car smash at Albany. Soaking rains at Dargaviile. Advance in butter prices maintained. Guy Fawkes celebration this evening. Thermal activity at Whakarewarewa. Sloop Laburnum sailed for southern ports. Prisoners sentenced at Supreme Court this morning. Government crisis in France temporarily averted. Russians claim to liave perfected an artificial heart. British tennis team at Stanley Street this afternoon. King George to broadcast only on special occasions. Biblical play substituted for sermon at Onehunga church. Steamer Wairuna arrived yesterday from Los Angeles. Fast trip by steamer Mariposa from Auckland to Sydney. New Zealand band third in aggregate at Ballarat contest. Christchurch man injured while skiing at Arthur's Pass. Railway officers' annual reunion held on Saturday evening. Canopus arrived from Westport yesterday with coal cargo. Decreased totalisator turnover on Saturday at Avondale races. Motor ship Rangitiki arrived to continue loading at Auckland. Missing machine-gun found yesterday in Whau Creek. New Lynn. New apparatus in use in England ensuring painless child-birth. Y.M.C.A. war memorial hut at Petone opened by Governor-General. Inquest on four murdered members of Davenport family opened at Te Kuiti. "Smith} 7 " makes hop from Honolulu to Oakland, San Francisco, in 15 hours. Roosevelt's "New Deal" to undergo supreme test at elections on Tuesday. Imperial Airways to speed up air lines between London and Dominions. Irish Free States adverse trade balance nearly £19,500,000 up to September. Mary Pickford states that she and Douglas Fairbanks are happily reconciled. Motorists protest at 12J per cent rebate on rates coming out of Highways Fund. Committee of Georges arranging national srift as wedding present to Duke of Kent. British aviation circles comment on remarkable success of Comet machine in Centenary air race. Duke of Kent and-Princess Marina to give national wedding gifts for aid of necessitous children. Auckland flyers land safely at Melbourne—chances in the air race handicap event considered good. "Smithy" and Captain Taylor take off for Los Angeles a few hours after landing at 'Frisco from Honolulu. Sales on the Stock Exchange to-day were: —Grand Junction, 4/3; Worksop, 4/; New Zealand Insurance, £3 0/; Waihi. £1 17/1; Waihi Grand Junction, 4/3; Waihi Grand Junction (2), 4/4; stock, 194(5. 4 Tier cent. £109; l&oo, 4 j per cent, £113 10/. Unlisted: Auckland ; Meat Company, £1 6/6. Australasia's ffreatest value. £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/.—Dentist Davies, |opp. Woolworths.— (Ad.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 262, 5 November 1934, Page 1
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