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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 1

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High water to-day, 5.20 p.m. Sunset, 4.41; sunrise to-morrow, 6.53. France eliminated from Davis Cup by Czechs. New O.C. appointed , r or First Infantry Brigade. I'onsonby, still unbeaten, tops senior Rugby tuble. Richmond leads in senior League football competition. New Zealand XI. fared badly against champion county. Reunion of Sacred Heart College Old Boys at week-end. Cowie best Xow Zealand bowler against Derbyshire. Wintry week-end, with snow in southern parts of province. Auckland waterside worker killed by motor car at Devonport. Sloop Leith left to-day for annual winter cruise to Islands. Five killed in R.A.F. crashes ill Britain during week-end. Brothers disputing provisions of will in Supreme Court action. Port Hunter arrived from Wi Mington for final loading for London. Woman lioardinghonse keeper dies in I hospital from effects of pois-on. "Drunk in charge of pair of boots"' may soon be a crime in Germany. British film industry decided to ban Duke of Windsor weddinjr pictures. Week-end road accidents result in admission to hospital of several people. Man injured by fall on wharf on May 2<> died in Auckland Hospital this morning. Unionist complains of being drawn to union meeting by misleading advertisement. First boring for oil in Sussex commenced. Unusually large number of accident case* admitted to Auckland Hospital at week-end. Auckland aggregate of King George V. Memorial Fund passed £20.000 at noon to-day. Question of B stations expected to be discussed at caucus of Government members on June 17. Recent sales in Queen Street have created an atmosphere of confidence, says city valuer. Monterey to arrive from San Francisco next Friday morning; to sail for Sydney at 8 p.m. Broadcasting and housing will be subjects for consideration at Government caucus on June 17. Railway employee killed when he slipped in front of engine in Auckland yards this morning. Maunganui due from Sydney at 7.30 a.m. to-morrow: to sail for Sydney at S p.m. on Thursday. French Deputies by two votos passed bill to abolish tipping; rejection by Senate thought likely. Important point regarding a wife's refusal to return raised by Judge Callan in an undefended action. One sixth of the total rate* in Auckland are collected in radius of half a mile from Chief Post Office. Thirty-five years asro £401 per it> j was considered a big price for Queen Street property; since then over four times that sura lias been realised, f Labourer who raised a loan on sew- ' ing machine which he failed to deliver to : a woman, pleaded guilty to tlieft ai:'' ' was committed to the Supreme Court | for sentence. Described by his counsel as an '"'over- | coat specialist" a labourer was to-day 1 sentenced to two years' reformative . detention. He admitted stealing eight ' overcoats, from parked motor cars. Sentenced to a week's imprisonment for theft, a boot repairer, aged 2'. was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on three charges of theft, breaking and entering, and theft from a dwelling. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—Bank of X.Z., £2 ' 5/9; Union Bank. £11; Standard Insurance, £2 IS/; Taringamutu, 15/; X.Z. Xewspapers, £1 15/: Auckland F.P.8., 30/4/43 (ex int.). £103 10/; Booth. Macdonald. 1/6/47, 5 per cent, £72 10/: Dominion Investment. 15/; Auckland Gas (con.), 16/; Dunlop Perdriau. £1 ' 2/6: G. .T. Coles, £5 8/6; Mount Lyell. £2 2/9; Mount Morgan, 13/; Rawang Tin. 11/4. Lnlisted: Woolworths (Sydney), £7.