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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 278, 24 November 1938, Page 1

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water to-day. 9.14 p.m. Nazi spy chief given high position. Sunset. 7.17; sxinrise to-morrow. 4..35. (iciH'ral strike in France feared ini- ] lendingForty killed in air raid on Barcelona. New agreement Vet ween Germany and l'raiu-e announced. Hungarian < iovernment defeated on no-confidence motion. Mariposa due at 7 a.m. to-morro»v from San Francisco. Probably hundreds killed in British U est Indies avalanche. Two cruise ships will visit Auckland during Christmas week. Xew Zealand is fourth wealthiest country in British Empire. British firms plan 50-ton, 50-passenger planes for Atlantic services. Mr. Herbert Hoover scathingly attacks Germany and Russia. Anti-gas training to be begun in four main centres cf Xew Zealand. Six prisoners sentenced by Mr. Justice Fair in Supreme Court to-dav. Xew Zealand price controlling system analysed by Xew South Wales AudiiorCieneral. Three persons injured in level crossing accjdent at i'.den Terrace this , morning. Auckland Transport Board to begin training of drivers for trollev-buses next week. \ iscount Xuflield to provide every liospital throughout the Empire with •»n iron-lung. Australia, fearing invasion, to remodel defence policy at possible cost £70,000.000. Gale sweeps southern England, driving ships ashore and wrecking houses with loss of life. Xew market ratepayers approve £18,500 loan for Olympic swimming pool and other amenities. Seven youths before Police Court on many charges of theft and unlawful conversion of car**. Comprehensive scheme for improvement of St. Mary s -Bay boat harbour nearinjr completion. H.M.S. Endeavour left for the north early this afternoon to continue her survey of the coast. Action for £2879 damages arising out of motor collision near Orewa opens in Supreme Court to-day. Auckland City Council to discuss question of air-raid precautions in city at meeting this evening. Hospital rebuilding scheme, involving about £1.500,000, advocated by chairman of Auckland Hospital Board. Present hospital like "dirty old tramp steamer manned by naval officers," suggests chairman of Auckland Hospital Board. Suction dredge, which hag been working in St. Mary's Bay boat harbour for about 18 months, will complete its task early next year. Conference to be called by Harbour Board of boating interests to decide on character of boat sheds and equipment for St. Mary's Bay. Auckland Hospital Board decides to proceed with erection of main base hospital on present site; question of financing to be discussed with Minister of Healtft. That he was impressed with conditions in Xew Zealand and fed up with the sea was excuse given by ship's | deserter who was sentenced to 14 davs' ; hard labour to-day. Sales on 'Change to-day were:— Farmers' Auctioneering (B pref.), £1; Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 17/; I)unlop Perdriau, £1 0/6:* Taranaki Oil. 12/1; Auckland Gas (odd lot). 18/S; Colonial Sugar, £48: 1.C.1, (pref.), £1 2/11: Consolidated Brick, 7/6; Bonds, 15/4/46-49, 4 per cent, £98 10/; Auckland City, 1/1/44-52. £100 10/; Auckland City, 1/1/42, £100 10/.