NEWS In BRIEF

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 198, 23 August 1939, Page 4

NEWS In BRIEF

Ngauruhoe's Activity. — Ngauruh* showed further signs of activity jesterday. With a clear sky in the earlv morning, steady columns of fumes were seen mounting. Periodically, showed in a dense mass from the crater on the summit and rose rapidly, before being, dispersed by the wind. At about S a.m. a column mounted to 3000 ft above the summit, making a tine spectacle in the morning sunlight. At times a distinct odour of sulphur was discernible the Chateau. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ New Stamps in Demand.—There hag been a rti-h by overseas stamp collectors for fir-t covers of the "commemoration of 2~> years' administration of Samoa br New Zealand"' issue, comprising ld s 2-ld and 7d, which will be on sale on aid after August 29. The postmaster at Apia has had several hundred appFejtions and residents have many re.juegts for the same favour. * ♦ ♦ ♦ Timber Mill Destroyed.—The Marton Sash and Door Coinjieny's timiier mi]], alongside the National Park railway station, was totally destroyed bv fin al>ont one o'clock this morning." Thg fire had a strong hold when discovered, and there was no chance of saving the mill, which was a small one emploviiw 10 men. —Press Association. Tar._aninm. *"* + ♦ Barman Killed. —While crossing The Parade, Island Bay, Wellington, at '#.30 p.m. yesterday, Mr. Vivian Claude Parker. of Devonshire Road. Mirainar, *as struck by a motor car and suffered head injuries from which he died almost immediately. Mr. Parker, who was a married man, was a barman emuloved at the Shamrock Hotel.—Press Association. * ♦ * ♦ Mails Not Delivered. —With the exception of air mail taken to Wellington by Union Airways' Lockheed Electra monoplanes, no Auckland correspondence *as delivered in Wellington city and subnrta yesterday. The bulk of the northern mails was on board the first express, which arrived at Wellington late last night attached to the Limited, after being delayed by the washout near Te Kuiti. Normally the first express arrives at Wellington at 7 a.m., in time for correspondence to be delivered by postmen that morning, and the Limited arrives at 9.30 a.m , mails by this train being delivered in the afternoon. A special staff was on duty in the mailroom at the General Post Office, Wellington, late last night, to cope with the mails when they arrived. Letters and second-class matter were distributed a the city and suburbs this morning.- I