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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 20, 24 January 1936, Page 1

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4 • — V High water at Auckland 7.37 p.m. '4 Death announced of Dame Clara Butt. - Takaputia races at EHerslie to-mor-row. Sunset 7.40; sunrise to-morrow 5.27 r a.m. 7 Auckland tennis championships now a in progress. New headmaster of King's College now - in Auckland. Coronation of King Edward to tako ' place in 1937. First appointment of a Xew Zealand • air inspector. Wellington's opening batsmen out lbw against Otago. Auckland won another Cornwell Cup j heat this morning. < Canadian banker criticises Alberta's social credit scheme. Walter Jarvis wins Victorian 100 yds swimming championship. Citizens' memorial service to be held j in Domain next Tuesday. - y \ Mayoral reception to well-known film 4 star in Auckland to-day. • ; All Blacks Arrive at Auckland February 17 by Aorangi. - Two valuable horses at Bucklaiul died 1 as the result of bee stings. 4 C. li. Buchanan wins Auckland half- - mile swimming championship. Z M.C.C. team's courtesy gives Mana--1 watu a game on February 4 and 5. Xew Zealand Metropolitan Trotting ? Club's one-day meeting to-morrow. ? Farmer's hand crushed at Awhitu ,1 when working with a rotary hoe. 4 Monterey arrived from Los Angeles = with 465 passengers, mails and cargo. P. E. Mathieson (Otago) breaks - another swimming record in Australia. f Wellington Cup meeting continued toy day; terminates at Trentham to-mor-J row. is Elimination of night baking sought by '■ Bakers' Union deputation to Minister of ? Labour. ® Suggestion made to Milk Council this e morning that all shops selling milk be 0 licensed. : t Prominent Los Angeles business man >• on Monterey predicts defeat of Roosevelt Jj in presidential election. " Auckland won fourth Cornwell Cup - heat yesterday afternoon;" three more races scheduled for to-day. e Preparations being made to admit j five-year-old children to State schools - from beginning of first term.' | Dalmatian orchardist whose truck col- > lided with a post in Hobson Street early - this morning died of injuries. 1 Elderly resident of Mairetahi found 1 unconscious in hie. cottage and brought 5 to Auckland Hospital, where he died this 1 afternoon. Amalgamation of Bay of Islands and Whangaroa Hospital Boards districts recommended by conference representative of both boards. ' Vancouver newspaper proprietor says : any Government that does not use country's productivity for benefit of j masses is doomed. t Colonel IW. R. MacKendrick, 'an 3 authority on British Israelism, arrived i- by the Monterey to-day and proposes- » to spend a month in the Dominion. 3 Dr. Maurice Laserson, Latvian barris- ~ tev and journalist, says Auckland War B Memorial Museum, particularly Maori i collection, is one of the most impressive 3 he has seen. ; Over 200 amateur radio transmitters - in New Zealand will participate in the j observance of the national day of mourn--1 ing by broadcasting a high-pitched • whistle for three minutes. [ NeW'Zea lander, who has been in United : States and Canada for past eight years, returned by Monterey to-day to take up ' position of professor of economics at ; the Otago University. Sales on 'Change to-day were: — Com- : mercial Bank, 18/8; National Bank, £3 • 11/; Bank of New Zealand, £2 7/0; Auckland Gas, £1 G/G; G. J. Coles, £3 1 13/, £3 12; Milne and Clioyce debenture . stock, IG/; Mataki, 2/1; Mount Morgan, 18/3; Stock, 4 per cent, 1943-40, £104 12/0; National Bank of Australasia ' (con.), £7 3/0, £7 2/0; Goldsbrough, 1 Mort, £1 13/0; Kaiapoi (coil.), a/2; . Union Oil, £1 10/. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set i of teeth for £2 10/. —E. Davies, Ltd. ; (Dentist Davies), opp. Woohvorths.—Ad.