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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 140, 15 June 1936, Page 1

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! Third week of Mareo retrial begins. • Sunset, 4.41; sunrise to-morrow, 7.1. Higli water at Auckland to-day 2.50 ; p.m. New Zealander leads English batting !. averages. Better trade and higher prices at l Smith field. : Waipahi arrived with fruit from ; Rarotonga. i Mr. Thomas' son refuses invitation to - contest Derby. ? English League team beats Queens--1 land by 15 points. ; Bernard Shaw says he will "retire from the footlights." i Preparations in hand for University 1 mission in Auckland. Ponsonby leading in Rugby and ; League championships. King of Belgians appeals to country . in grave strike crisis. ' Death of noted English novelist and > writer, G. K. Chesterton. b Loss of £10,000 on year's working of > Auckland Transport Board. Boy cyclist dies after collision with Greymoutli magistrate's car. I Australian Soccer team for New Zea- ; land beaten by Sydney clubs. • Medical student charged in Dunedin ■ as a result of a murder hoax. | Interesting comments on school work i made by Auckland inspectors. Woman seriously injured* in capsize of car at Dairy Flat yesterday, j Verity first in bowling and third in ' County cricket batting average. William Mawson Memorial Hall in " Cook Street dedicated yesterday. Germany beats Ireland and reached Davis Cup European zone final. Matai left this morning to attend to i lights and buoys in Hauraki Gulf. I Inland air mail to be given a further trial of three months from May 31. Two young Wairarapa sportsmen drowned in a lagoon near Kahautara. ' Woman found unconscious on Raglan Road yesterday after fall from horse. Cambridge resident converses by telephone with liis mother in Switzerland. Rifle range of Maori War days rediscovered at Moturoa, New Plymouth. Arab disturbances continue, though eight British battalions are in Palestine. Rising fury of Rumanians over collapse of grandstand which caused over. 400 deaths. H.M.S. Dunedin sails this afternoon on Pacific cruise; she will call at the Kermcbflecs. Prisoner who escaped from Waipawa ■ gaol at midday yesterday recaptured , last evening. ; Large increase in both revenue and ■ expenditure accounts of Auckland " Transport Board. Defence theory of Mrs. Mareo's death I put forward by medical witness in t Supreme Court to-day. ] Inquiry into loss of scow Kaiaia in Bay of* Plenty last March begun in Magistrate's Court to-day. - Bus service connecting Manukau Road J with Balmoral district sought by depu- [ tation to Transport Board. . Pedestrian knocked down and seriously injured by motor car in Hobson Street on Saturday evening. All vessels in the Pacific sighting the full-rigged ship Joseph Conrad are asked to report to Lloyd's, London. Farmers in Auckland Province are expected to receive about £2,000,000 more for this season's butterfat than they did for iast season's. Servant of Auckland Hospital Board remanded in Police Court on charge of fraudulently omitting to acount for £3 17/. Domestic, aged 19, who .succumbed to sudden temptation and Stole a handbag containing £18, admitted to three years' ' probation. Salesman, aged 20, on 32 charges of obtaining small sums totalling £0, by false representations, placed on probation for three years. Chased and caught "by a nonstable in Dominion Road early on the morning of June 7, a labourer was to-day committed for trial on a charge of attempting 1 to break and enter a shop with intent to commit a crime. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were: Bank of New South Wales, £32 7/0; Bank of New Zealand, £2 4/; Bank of New Zealand, D. Mort., £1 8/9; Dominion Breweries, £1 0/; Broken Hill, £3 12/6; Colonial Sugar, £41 17/0; Consolidated Brick, 10/3; Holden's Motors (pref.), £1 3/3; K.D.V. Boxes (con.), 3/9; Electrolytic Zinc, £1 18/3; Maori Gully, Hid; Mataki, 1/5 (2); Devonport Steam, £1 1/9; Dominion Breweries, £1 6/3; Broken Hill, £3 12/6; Broken Hill (con.), £2 10/3; Farmers' Trading, £1 0/3; New Zealand Newspapers, £2 2/; Mount Morgan, 15/8. Unlisted: Selfridges (old), £15/6 (2); Selfridges (new), £1 5/4. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/. —E. Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Davies), opp. Woolwortli's. —Ad.