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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 201, 26 August 1935, Page 1

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High water at Auckland 5.2 p.m. Gift of hospital cot by boy scouts. Lurich beats Kruskamp in Sydney. Sunset 5.25; sunrise 6.20. Gale causes damage in Hawke's Bay. Fire in jeweller's shop at Whangarci. Sheaves again beats Savidan in Australia. Several footballers injured on Saturday. » Woman injured in motor collision at Otahuhu. Melbourne-Sydney barrow "push" at half-way. Port Whangarei due from Nukualofa to-morrow. Maori football team left for south last evening. British War Office testing new influenza serum. Mussolini will meet League sanctions by armed force. Stedman (Auckland) wins North of England tennis title. Full activity restored after strike on Australian waterfronts. Judge threatens burglars with twelve months' imprisonment. Statement by leader of Democrat party, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop. Mr. Coates to give political address at Dargaville this evening. F. W. McMahon beats course record to win Australian golf title. Large party of ski club members assembled at National Park. Little prospects seen of developing Northern Territory at present. Evidence for prosecution in Hewer case to be heard next Monday. Mount Albert Grammar School reunion continued over week-end. Waikato truck driver charged with causing Onehunga man's death. Government may appoint small commission to control public service. Waihi Hospital dispute develops; medical superintendent to resign. H.M.S. ■ Dunedin and Diomede to exercise in Hauraki Gulf next month. Biggest peace time manoeuvres in history being carried out by Italian army. Trades Union criticism of proposed trades school refuted by Mr. J. A. C. Allum. Trawler returned to Port Chalmers in damaged condition after meeting with heavy seas. Cabinet has not .yet considered appointment of successor as Administrator of Samoa. Divergent views on Mortgage Corporation flotation expressed by leading sharebrokers to-day. Hawke's Bay (to play Auckland next Saturday at Eden Park) beaten by Manawatu at Napier. Special services at Church of Holy Sepulchre yesterday to commemorate seventieth anniversary. Domestic who defrauded a city firm of goods worth £44 sentenced to reformative detention. Proposed conference of local bodies regarding comprehensive drainage scheme still further deferred. Prime Minister says electoral law reform is not on Government's programme for coming session. Old boys farewelled Mr. H. J. D. Mahon, retiring headmaster of the Auckland Grammar School, on Saturday evening. Mortgage Corporation to make first public issue of bonds, £500,000 at 3| per cent. . Initial lending rate to be 4J per cent. Sales on the Stock Exchange to-day are:—New Zealand Insurance (2), £3 7/; Wilsons Cement, £2 2/6; Mount Kasi (3/ paid), £1 2/3; Mortgage Corporation, 6/4; Mortgage Corporation. 6/3; Dominion Breweries (2), 18/; Consolidated Brick, 11/4. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/.— E. Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Davies), opp Woolworths.— Ad.