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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 206, 31 August 1936, Page 1

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High water at Auckland, 5.55 P- nl, • Sunset, 5.20; sunrise to-morrow, 6.1:.. Griffiths appointed as captain ol All Blacks. , Auckland defeat Canterbury at hockey. . Kusriia pressing Norway to deport Trotskv. . Port Hobart due early to-morrow from Liverpool. Manukau win Auckland League club championship. Dempster sixth in English cricket batting averages. Otahuhu defeat Ponsonby in Jubilee Cup competition. Marama arrives from Sydney at 8 a.m. to-morrow. Otago beat Canterbury 16-—0 in niatcb for Kanfurly Shield. Motor cyclist killed by motor car at Dunedin on Saturday. Bombing raids carried out on Madrid by Spanish insurgents. Clothing trade industrial dispute before Arbitration Court. Dairy cows sold up to £17 17/ at Bombay clearing sale. Giant Imperial Airways liner makes forced landing in Persia. Auckland retains shield in New Zealand cross-country championship. s Hail and heavy rain experienced during week-end in city and suburbs. Hawke's Bay defeated Australian Rugby footballers by 20 points to 14. Niagara arrived this morning, and sails at 5 p.m. to-morrow for Sydney. Golden Bear arrives late to-night from Pacific Coast; to berth at Central wharf in morning. Forty-hour week to be observed from to-morrow in non-exempted trades and industries. Three Dominion delegates to PanPacific surgical congress at Honolulu returned to-day. Good contests in Auckland amateur wrestling championships decided on Saturday night. Manukau bar, after a quieter spell early this morning, now reported too rough to work. Labour Corporation of Glasgow for first time permitted Sunday golf on municipal courses. Man who partly disrobed in city theatre sentenced to imprisonment today in Police Court.

"Youth for Christ" campaign concluded yesterday with an impressive rally in Town Hall. R. E. S. Wyatt, captain of Warwickshire team, chosen to go to Australia with Marylebone team. German doctor of physics arrived by Niagara to' study New Zealand scientific agricultural methods. H.M.S. Achilles expected at Auckland at 10.30 a.m. on Sunday —three days earlier than previously reported. Government Departments in Auckland have received no instructions regarding observance of 40-hour week. Far-reaching discoveries in cancer treatment expected from experiments on rats, says Wellington doctor on Niagara. Totalisator turnover at Auckland Trotting Club's meeting on Saturday over £7000 more than on corresponding day last year. Agricultural editor of "Daily Herald" arrived from London to-day to discuss marketing problems with New Zealand Government. No extravagant claims for cures of difeease made at Pan-Pacific surgical congress, says Auckland delegate who returned to-day. Detective in police night patrol car fires over heads of runaway motorists at Avondale, after sensational pursuit through suburbs. ® Auckland trades union secretaries considering question of protest against number of exemptions from observance of 40-hour week. Western (Christchurch) win Chatham Cup competition by defeating Thistle (Auckland) in final game at Wellington by three goals to two. Trans-Tasman air service only awaiting New Zealand and Australian Governments' decision on subsidy question, says Australian manager of d'e Havilland Company, a passenger on Niagara. Auckland-Wellington Main Trunk express derailed yesterday morning near Paraparaumu, through striking a slip. One carriage was smashed to pieces and a number of passengers injured. By the casting vote of the chairman a motion in favour of asking for legislation so that all farmers should be compelled to join a farmers' union under statutory enactment was defeated at East Tamaki on Saturday night. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—Tooths Brewerv, £2 14/9; G. J. Coles, £4 0/6; Golden Crown (2), 4/; Molyneux, l/6i; Mount Morgan (2), 1.3/1; Martha, 19/; Stock, November, 1938-52, 3i per cent, £103 15/; Farmers' Auctioneering (£1 pd.), 14/G; Bruce Wool, 14/; Waihi, 10/8. Unlisted: Selfridges new, £1 4/7 J; Wool worths (Sydney), £5 6/6. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for_ £2 10/.— E. Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Davies), opp. Woolworths.—Ad.