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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1937, Page 1

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Cambridge trots to-day. Racing at Vincent and Reefton. Inter-club bowling fixtures to-day. Victoria Cruising Club races to-day. Heavy traffic on railways continues. Sunset 7.44; sunrise to-morrow 5.12. •Spanish rebels capture Norwegian vessel. I-ondon base metal markets 20 still higher. Rangitane leaves for Wellington this evening. Busy time in orchards surrounding Auckland. Awatea due from Sydney Mondav forenoon. Cornwell Cup trophies presented at Tauranga. Bowling championships continued in Wellington. A.C.A. senior cricket matches continued to-day. Rumour of important brewing merger in the South. Three rowing clubs held trial fours this afternoon. Bi»r increase in railway revenue over holiday |>eriod. France assembling naval strength on Moroccan coast. Sil»eroet due from Java to-morrow with raw sugar. The Pope spent a restful night; condition unchanged. Musicians' award affects dances in Waikato district. Canadian Constructor sails this afternoon for Wellington. Awatea leaves Sydney with full complement of passengers. Tanker Sir Karl Knudsen sailed for Sumatra this morning. Story of dissension in Australian Test tea in strongly discounted. High water at Auckland to-day at 4.45 p.m.; to-morrow 5.32 a.m. Xew South Wales expert praises Xew Zealand dairying methods. hxtra trains to Wellington this afternoon and to-morrow night. Bananas are cheaper in Wellington than they hare been for Years. Dominion bowling tournament at Wellington carried further stage. Germany hands over captured loyalist ships to Spanish rebels as reprisal. Australian expert comments favourably on Xew Zealand housing scheme. Mi Xflsh deals with the New Zealand <«o\ernments banking policv at lunch in Londo*--. Xationalist M.P.s in South Africa leave Parliament when loval resolution proposed. About 6000 sheep and record entrv of pigs, over 1200, yarded at Morrinsville yesterday. Statement of shortage in farm labour not borne out by experience of Auckland Placement Office. Big owning tea sale for the vear at Calcutta. 2.750.0001b offered; * prices advanced slightly. First hospital to be subsidised bv Auckland Hospital Board to be officialh opened at Helensville on Wednesdav. " Unemployed labourer who obtained an electric iron by false pretences, gepUnwd to one month's imprisonment. Considerable losses in- peach crops due to recent heavy rain producing "brown rot experienced by Auckland orchard ists. Warned that any future offence would be met with a term .-of reformative detention, a young Jabourer charged with theft, was given a last chance to make good. Sales to-day on the Auckland Stock Exchange were: Bank of New Zealand, £2 1/6; National Insurance, 18/3; South British, £4 14/3; Dominion Breweries, £1 19/9: Farmers' Trading. £1 1/; (J. X. Coles. £4 10/; Xew Zealand Newspapers, '/; Wool worths (Xew Zealand), £0 10/6; Waihi Investment, 12/9; Grand Junction. 3/9. Unlisted: Woolworths (Sydney), £8 1/6. Kelleway's 1937 bargain*: 24 x 44 black lambskin rugs. 15/6; 30 x 50 Axminister rugs, 14/11; 1000 curtain ends, Gd. 9d and 1/ each.—Newmarket.— (Ad.) Kelleway s 1937 bargains: Moquet squabs, 19/11; kapok pillows, 1/11; 4ft x 2ft oval sea grass mats, heavv, 2/11 • 36in bedspread, satin, IHd yd.—Newmarket.—(Ad.)