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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 69, 23 March 1937, Page 1

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Sunset 6.30; sunrise to-morrow 6.27. High water at Auckland to-day 4.28 p.m. Two stowaways sentenced to imprisonment. Heavy Easter' bookings in Auckland hotels. Tanker Herborg sailed for Borneo this ir.oi ning. Fruit and vegetables plentiful on city market. Steamer Surrey leaves for Gisborne to-night. Exhibition play by Australian tennis players. Training division athletic sports held 1 at naval base. Plea of insanity to be offered in Maori murder charge. Auckland cricketers in New Zealand team farewelled. New flatfish spawning ground discovered in Gulf. Hawera sharemilker fined £10 for theft of electricity. Many orders for warships placed by Britain in week-end. Niagara sailing for Vancouver and way ports at 6 p.m. Sensational advance in crossbred wool at Dunedin sale to-daj\ Abyssinia tells story of massacre by Italians in Addis Ababa. Peak prices for Dominion wool season reached at Dunedin to-day. Annual meeting of Auckland Wrestling Association held last evening. Cable steamer Recorder to leave for Tasman to-morrow morning. Amazing story of woman's masquerade told in London court. New Zealand wheat growers approve of present fixed price for wheat. New coastal vessel, the Port Tauranga, a rived in Auckland last night. Schmeling makes Braddock offer for heavy-weight boxing match at Berlin. Unemployed plan marches on Sydney from all parts of New South Wales. British insurance companies laying 10 to 1 against Coronation being wet. Farrier-sergeant killed in Botorua territorial camp when run over by wagon. Boy of electrocuted through touching a live wire near New Plymouth. Awatea due from Wellington at 8 a.m. to-morrow; to sail at 5 p.m. for Sydney. Government to take 60 acres of Marewa block, Napier, for housing purposes. St. Mary's Bay access road work proceeding; completion expected in three months. Prime Minister and party to attend Coronation leave Wellington by Arawa on Saturday. One woman fined and another imprisoned for shoplifting in Police Court this morning. Victim of alleged assault on Saturday ; night at Ellerslie in critical condition in • Auckland Hospital. Her Excellency, Viscountess Galwav leaves by the Niagara this evening en route to England. « I Storm centres located west of Samo? may interfere with Clipper's flight from I Honolulu to Auckland. Observance of Auckland's correct . anniversary date, rather than traditions t day, urged by Mayor. i Much reconstruction work on State Easter holiday motorists *fadvised to exercise special care. > Polo pony collapsed and died when ;. chasing «. ball in the Auckland Provint cial polo tournament at Hamilton. . Thief who stole overcoat from boardi ing house in Palmerston North later » offered to sell it to the owner for 30/. : A British trans-Tasman service, according to Mr. Harold Gatty, will be an _ important link in an all-round-the-world i air service. Inquest into the death of George Walt lace Barker, who fell overboard from - the fishing vessel Maud E. on February ! 4, to be held to-morrow. • Clipper from United States cannot arrive before Friday, but may reach ' Auckland later on account of survey \ work to be carried out. Men's quarter-mile swimming cham- . pionship to be decided at North Shore < Amateur Swimming and Life Saving Club's carnival this evening. Mr. Harold Gatty, Pan-American Airways representative, says that from the commencement of negotiations Auckland was always planned as the terminal [ of the service. Sales on 'Change to-day were: E.S. and A. Bank, £6 10/6; Bank of New Zealand, £2 3/; City of Dunedin, 1/4/48, £105; Dunedin Drainage Board, 1/4/53, £105 10/; Tooths, £2 16/; • Electro Zinc (pref.), £3 4/; Dunlop, £1 0/3; Alexander, 14/6; Rawang, 13/7; . Auckland Harbour Board, 9/7/39, plus i int., £101; Auckland Harbour Board, J 9/7/47, plus int., £103 10/. Unlisted: ' Coromandel Gold, 1/8. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/set of teeth for £2 10/.— E. Daviea. Ltd. (Dentist Daviesl. opp Woplworths.—Ad