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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 199, 23 August 1935, Page 1

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Opposition to Thames merger plan. Butter decreased Id per lb in price. R. C. Blunt scores 83 against South Africans. H.M.S. Diomede returned from Islands cruise. League Roope Booster matches tomorrow. Joe Louis to fight Max Baer on Scp--1 tember 24. Steamer Fordsdale to sail to-morrow for south. Maori footballers to play Auckland to-morrow. Maori Rugby tactics discussed by W. J. Wallace. Farewells to liead of Auckland Grammar School. London butter market firms tip with more inquiry. Mariposa due to-morrow morning from Sydney. Reinstated nurse decides to leave Waihi Hospital. Sharp fall in British funds on London Stock Exchange. Presentations at Point Chevalier to Mr. M. J. Coyle. Majority of Auckland schools to close to-day for vacation. Warning from judge at Hamilton in connection with sly-grog sales. Pakuranga Hunt Club's totalisator meeting at Ellerslie to-morrow. Sentences passed on 200,000 Soviet workers for evading alimony. Italian Consul at Addis Abada accidentally wounded while hunting. Bradford market is firm, and Merino tops have been sold well ahead. Australian Rugby League team to play three Test matches in New Zealand. Crowds attend funeral of Will Rogers; picture industry suspended. Sunset, 5.22; sunrise to-morrow, 6.24. High water at Auckland, 1.55 p.m. British Cabinet holds momentous meeting to discuss Abyssinia dispute. Auckland Football Association's Falcon Cup competition to begin to-morrow. Exploits of an alleged Secret Service man described by police in Court as surpassing those of "Bulldog Drummond." Sales on 'Change to-day were:— National Bank, £3 13/; Bank of New Zealand, £2 11/6; Winehcombe Carson, £1 11/6; Consolidated Brick, 11/6; Wilsons Cement (2), £2 2/; Stock, 4 per cent, 1952-55 (2), £112 15/; New Zealand Farmers' Co-op., 4J per cent, £SS 10/; Reserve Bank, £6 10/; National Insurance, £1 0/9; Traders Finance (pref.), 19/3; Taupo Totara, 7/11; Dominion Breweries, 18/; Northern Steam, G/6; Mahakipawa, 3d; Goldfields Dredging, 3Jd; Stock, 1937-40, 4 per cent, £101 10/. Unlisted: Wilton Collieries, £102; Woolworths (Sydnoy), £5 18/9. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/. —E. Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Daviesl, opp Woolworths.—Ad.