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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 113, 14 May 1937, Page 1

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High water to-day. 10.11 p.m. London metal market* are firmer. Suiir-et. 4..14: sunrise to-morrow. 0.41. Trotting at Forbury Park to-morrow. Handicaps declared for Waikato race*. Celebrated Vellist arrived by Maripesa to-day. Racing at Waipa, Egmont and Otaki to-morrow. Bradford wool market quiet owinj to holidays. Elderly man burned to death in hi? hut at Orari. German flairs stolen from Parliament House ground?. Xo play in M.C.C. v. New Zealand match yesterday. Minister of Internal Affaire declines free shooting license. Butter is firm in London, with Xew Zealand bai-k to 107/. Mariposa bulTeted by heavy seas when Hearing Xew Zealand. Statues of former British kinge blown uii in rioting in Dublin. Matamata representative footballer for England to join Air Force. Mclntyre defeated McKenzie in wrestling contest at Masterton. Xew Zealand cricketers start -first of two games in Wales to-morrow. Small vessel wrecked on Coromandel coast with the loss of one life. Xo. 1 highway to north, via Albany, blocked by floods near Dairy Flat. Considerable damage caused >y storm; windows bioken and grounds flooded. Bequest made in will of Auckland woman to Massey Agricultural College. Early start promised on building of State houses on Casey estate. Ponsonby. Passenger on lorry fatally crushed when lorry went over bank at Kaitaia. Springboks' manager says best possible team selected; party sails to-mor-row. Yacht broke moorings off Bayswater btit recovered undamaged at Queen's wharf. Verdicts of accidental death returned by Auckland coroner in three inquests to-day. Dominion executive of Farmers' Union expresses concern at drift of farmers' sons to city. Eight men caught recently in a gaming raid on wharf dealt with in Police Court. Extraordinary reports of disloyal British rioting at Coronation published in Italian Press. British Consols and Stocks steady on London Stock Exchange and Colonial issues firmer. American Medical Association's fight against quackery described by radiologist on Mariposa. Probation extended to two young men who had admitted their connection with fires in Howick district. Automobile Association (Auckland) considers 2/6 sufficient charge for the re-issue of a driver's license. Factory girl of 19, who falsely stated she was knocked down by a motor car, dealt with in Police Court to-day. Burglars gelignited an unlocked safe in Xew Lynn Borough Council office last night; the third raid in two years. Australian doctor's rush trip t<" America with daughter who required urgent brain operation, described to-dny Home-made dart—needle and cork — removed from youth's lung at Auckland Hospital to-day; operation took three minutes. America's treatment of infantile paralysis cases progressing rapidly, says Australian doctor returning from visit to U.S.A. Alarm at Sir Louis Barnett's suggestion regarding Auckland Hospital expressed by chairman of Auckland honorary staff. Xoted American aviator arrived on Mariposa to carry out test flights' of 'planes to be used in Auckland-Welling-ton flir service. Entering a hotel on Easter Sunday morning, a constable found business being done as on a week day. 24 m»n being in the bar; licensee efined £10 to-day. Xew Zealand is an outstanding example of the new tendency in social organisation, said official of International Labour Office, Geneva, on Mariposa. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange 10-day were: —Union Hank. £11 4/: standard Insurance (2). £2 19/: Oamnru iVool. 19/0: Xew Zealand Breweries. £3; Mount Morgan. 15/1: Hnddart Parker, £2; Auckland Gas (con.), 1.5/: Auekand Gas ford.). £1 0/0: G. .T. Coles. £5 10/; Taranaki Oil. 4/9. (2) 4/11; Stock, February 15. 1943-4* l. 4 per cent. £103 !/Ci. Unlisted: Woolworths (S"rd.), •ights, (2). £-3 2/. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set )f teeth for £2 10/.— E. Davies, Ltd. Dentist Davies), opp. Woolworths. —Ad.