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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 251, 22 October 1937, Page 1

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I . High water to-day, 9.19 p.m. Queen Street hotel sold for £65,000. ! Bradford wool tops market is firmer. Sunset. (i.43; sunrise to-morrow, 5.27. Awatea due from Sydney on Monday morning. Kise in metal prices on London Exchange. Budget <lel>ate in Parliament still unfinished. Further University terms results announced. Nazis dissolve Catholic Centre party in Danzig. Shorter hours for taxi-drivers at Whangarei. Jean Batten reaches Karachi on flight h> England. Palmerston Xorth taxi driver robbed l>y armed \ouths. London butter market still firm, but cheese is rather dull. Attack on chambers of commerce made by Minister of Labour. Australian Kugby League team draws in match with Widnes. Several invitations accepted for XinePower Treaty Conference. Trial of labourer on four charges of uttering forged £."i notes. Charges for playing facilities increased by Papatoetoe Town Board. Fire in engine room of Newmarket timber mill <|uickly checked. Italian Air Force pilots, conscripted to replace volunteers in Spain. Cumberland arrived at <> p.m. yesterday with car«ro from Liverpool. Auckland Placement office during week found work for 135 people. British cruiser secures release of steamer captured by Spanish rebels. \\ estrnoreland to sail this afternoon for \\ with New York cargo. ' Spanish rebels claim to have entered Ciijon. last Loyalist centre in the north. 1 italii golf course (Wellington) sold at auction by order of Supreme Court. Hamburg Amerika steamer N'aumburg due at 5 a.m. to-morrow from Xew Orleans. Additional facilities to be provided at Motuihi Island this summer for visitors. Minister of Health sanctions scheme for erection of new hospital at Dargaville. Statement by chairman of Auckland Board. Rev. .C. Wood. in regard to hospital fees. Silverelm due on Sunday morning from Bunlmry with 2.500.000 f,. c t of hardwood timber. All naval ships on Auckland station will be in port this evening, with exception of Leander. One-third of applications for mortgage lelief have been disposed of. according to Minister of Justice. <.ei man boxer \\ alter Xeusel agreeable to meet Maurice Strickland again if the bout is over 15 rounds. General Assembly of Xew Zealand Presbyterian Church to be opened in Auckland on November 10. Hospital boards lagging behind in duty to crippled children, in opinion of Auckland branch of societv. Iwo youths charged with robbing Palmerston North taxi driver while armed with an offensive weapon. After leaving Auckland on Tuesdav. Port Dunedin altered course to land two stowaways at Tokomaru Bav. ( ity reserves for cricket allocated at meeting to-day when representatives <if \arious cricket associations were present. Man with criminal record wh,> trespassed on Ellerslie racecourse when races were being held fined £3 in Police Court. (. aught with a home-made double chatt in a hotel bar. a man was to-day fined - £20 on charge. * ' Area near Xorthcote chosen by Devonport Borough Council as cemcterv site objected to by Waitemata Countv Council. Special committee of Crippled Children Society making inquiries overseas ie«ai dinar vocational guidance for disaided children. Nine men before Police Court to-day for making faW declarations to obtain benefit under Employment Promotion Act. One. a single man. was fined £10 and sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—Bank of New Zealand £2 :!/1 0 : South British. £4 15/; Dominion Breweries. £2: Xew Zealand Breweries. £2 H/(i; Broken Hill Proprietarv (rights). £1 10/9. £1 11/(i; O. .T. Colei. £4 12/(5; Taranaki Oil. "/. 7/1 ; Broken Hill South. £2 2/. £2 2/3: Stock, l.i/1 /."17, .'! 1 per cent. £'!0; Auckland ( ity. 1/1/44-47. £104 10/ : Xew Zealand Insurance. £3 4/4 J; Dunlop. £1 2/; Mount Lyell. £1 lft/ : Mount Morgan. 10/10. (31 10/11. Unlisted: Silknit, £2 9/(i; Woolwortlis (SvduevV £1 9/X. * Australasia's greatest value, £5 0/ set of teeth for £2 10/.-E. Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Davies). opp. Woolworth^.—Ad.