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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 143, 18 June 1940, Page 1

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High water to-day, 5.27 p.m. Waiana sails* for south to-morrow. Sunset, 4.41; sunrise to-morrow, 7.2. Soviet takes over three Baltic State.*?, Eleven Territorials hurt in collision at Manurcwa. Prices for 'both silver and tin fall 5n London to-day. Soldiers in hospital with influenza total 440 to-day. Britain determined to fight despite latest developments. Waipiata leaves Wellington to-day; due here on Thursday. Travel ban imposed in Dominion o:i single and married men. Fruit demand good at Hamilton auction markets to-day. Puriri due at Oneliunga to-morrow morning from Waikato. Kami a i left Westport this morning; due here on Friday night. ' Air raids on military targets in Italian Somali la nd prove successful. French military spokesman says the French Army is still fighting. Germans pay tribute to British courage in naval battle in Arctic. Youth and small boy victims ot double drowning tragedy at Kaitaia. Sharp increase in recruiting in city yesterday; 72 men offered t';eir services. Further New Zealand Air Force casualties reported; Aucklunder included. Heavy supplies of cabbage in local auction markets to-day meet with lower •prices. Quotations on London Stock Exchange lower to-day; business practically at a standstill. Move by United States to unite American; Republics and Canada in solid economic front. of exchange funds during seven months of petrol restrictions amounts to i;JGS,OOO dollars. Markets in New York fluctuate as result of war news; sharp fall seen, then subsequent • rally. Carrots and parsnips in good supply at. city auction markets; prices on a par with recent sales. Plans begun for increased supply of foodstuffs to United Kingdom from New Zealand next season. Jockeys play police in Rugby match at Carlaw Park to-morrow, in aid of Public Service Queen. Auckland Aero Club offers to operate [angere aerodrome as elementary flying . vhool at 72 hours' notice. Buyers .in Bradford hesitant owing to the military situation; outflow* for Government orders continues unchecked. Powers of search and inspection of goods on overseas ships under emergency regulations put into effect at Auckland. Appeal heard in Supreme Court today of man convicted in the Magistrate's Court of "a breach of the medical Practitioners' Act. Inquest opened and adjourned into death of man found with fractured skull oil the lawn of the house where he lived at - Ellcrslle. SI. Reynaud, who has just resigned from ithe position of Prime Minister of France, is reported to have arrived in the United States. Trustees of Auckland Savings Bank have decided to loan £50,000 to Government free of interest for- duration of war and six months afterwards. Auckland builder sent to prison for seven days to-day;for.being in a stat* of. intoxication while in charge of :t motor vehicle. His brother, a painter, for obstructing the arresting constable, was fined £2. Sentenced to a week's imprisonment on a vagrancy charge, a labourer was to-day ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within .12 months for goiiig aboard an overseas ship at an Auckland wharf without a permit. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange this morning were:—Xew South Wal s Bank, 4326 10/s Farmers' Co-op. (B, pref), £!;• Broken Hill Pty., £2, £1 10/3; •ST.Z. Newspapers (2), £1 6/: Wilsons Cement, 15/9; Woolvrorfchs (Sydney), 15/2; South British Insurance (3), "£2 3/; Auckland Gas, 5 per cent, perpet. £101; South British Insurance, £2 3/; N.Z. Newspapers, £1 6/; Woolworths (Sydney) (2), 15/; Stock, 15/3/40-43, 4 per cent, £100 15/; Stock, .15/7/39-41, 3 per 'cent, £100; Auckland Gas, 5-per cent, perpet. stock, £101 15/; National Bank of New Zealand, £1 10/6.