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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 98, 27 April 1937, Page 1

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Handicaps declared for Waikat-o trot*. Sunset 5.11: eunrwe to-morrow 6.27. High water at Auckland to-day 8-35 p.m. Urisliane Maru sails for Japan on Thursday. .Sammy Stein defeated Blomfield in wrestling bout. Reported foundering of noted sailing ship off Azarer. Maori collapsed and died in bush iu Urewera Country. Manukau bar now workable, after two days of rough weather. British Government to purchase coal royalties for £66.430.000. Team of British bowlers to arrive in Dominion next December. Arrangements completed for Auckland observance of Coronation Day. fJolden West reports she will arrive from Pacific Coast on Saturday. Detective-Sergeant plaintiff in damages claim in Magistrate's Court tc-day. Tender of £130.000 accepted for first block of new Christohurch Post Office. Dunedin municipal trading departments show profit of £50,392 for pa*t year. Hon. R. Semple says Oovernment intends to give more attention to country roads. AVanpanella due at 7 a.m. to-morrow from Sydney; to J>erth at Prince's wharf. Matua left for Wellington last night to discbarge balance of fruit from IslandsDefence loan of £100.000.000 an nounced by British Chancellor of the Exchequer. • Xaval and military forces to cooperate in Auckland Coronation Day observance. Big increase in cargo handled at port of Auckland for March as compared with March. 1936. Fixtures for the hearing of industrial ckiims made by Conciliation Commissioner up to end of May. Young labourer, described in Police Court as sneak thief, allowed probation and taken back by employer. Check being made by "traffic officers on cars to ascertain whether certificates of fitness have been obtained. All tram and motor traffic to be prohibited in Queen Street for short period on morning of Coronation Dav. Petrol prices increased one "penny per gallon in certain areas in North Canterbury, Manawatu and Wellington. Dissatisfaction in dairy industry as a result of refusal of companies to pav factory workers for annual holidays. Expected that Xew Zealand will "send a team of 60 to compete in British Empire Games in Sydney next February. More passengers arrived bv ship in Auckland, and fewer departed" in March as compared with the same period last [year. j Position of taxi services in Auckland reviewed by chairman of legal and bylaws committee of Citv Council Mr W T. Anderton, M.P. Manager of a Karangahape Roa<l grocery business convicted of stealin seven bags of potatoes belonginsr to his neighbour, a Chinese greengrocer. Disclosed during the prosecution of i Chinese in Police Court to-day that threcent raid on a fan-tan echoo" was the result of complaints by the Chinese community of Auckland. * Opinion that on the whole the recommendations of committee wMch inquired into transport system in Dominion would do good expressed this mornin" by Mr. W. T. Anderton. M.P.. chairman of City Council's legal and bv-laws committee. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange today were: G. J. Coles, £5 C/ 3: Martha. 19/3; Amalgamated Brick (Auckland), 1/3/44, 0 p.c. £99 10/; National Insurance. 17/9; Broken Hill Proprietary, £4 1/3, (2) £4 1/; Consolidated Brick, 8/3; Electrolytic Zine, £2 17/; Electrolytic Zinc* (pref) £2 18/6, £2 18/3; Farmers' Trading £1 2/: Milne and Choyce (debenture stock), 1«A Unlisted: Woolworths (Svdnev) £7 6/. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/.— E. Daviee, Ltd. (Dentist Davies), opp. Woolworths.—Ad.