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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 197, 20 August 1940, Page 1

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High water to-day, 8.50 p.m. 1-urther R.A.F. raids on Italy. Karepo for Greynioutli to-morrow. Sunset. ■)ji(_i: sunrise- to-morrow, 6.27. Xew gymnasium for troops at Papakura. 4 Shipment of Australian barley due at Auckland. Increase in price of meat operates from to-day. British forces successful evacuated from JSomaWand. Port Waikato due out to-morrow on Visual southern run. Promotions approved for officers iii Third Echelon units. I ndefended divorce petition granted 1 in Supreme Court to-dav. Kakapo sails for Portland, en route for Westport. this evening. Territorial officers undergo intelligent work course at Pajuikura camp. Waipiata scheduled to leave Wellington this evening: due here Thursday. German losses in raids on Britain on Sunday now stated to be 144 'planes. Public examination of tobacco company officers in Supreme Court to-day. Taupiri coal mine idle to-day owing to prolonged stop-work meeting of men. Hungarian proposal that Rumania, cede two-thirds of Transylvania refused. Relaxation of |>etrol restrictions urged by .Motor Traders* Association in statement. • Need for longer working weeJc for greater production strewed by manufacturers! Fibre board mill be-ing erected at Penrose with proposed initial output of 4000 tons. Conference to Ik? held next we*»k to discuss reducing congestion of vehicles in Quay Street. President Roosevelt hoj>es that U.S.Canadian joint defence Itoard will meet early next week. Fourteen-year-old boy enlists for ' service with Auckland Territorials; father intervenes. Short address given to nurses at Cargen by Governor-General in course of , visit of iiis]>ectiou. Direct automatic telephone service inaugurated between Papakura camp and Auckland area. German chemist heavily fined at Panama for acting as a foreign agent ' without registration. Taupiri coal mine will be operated ; *iain ■ to-morrow, says secretary of j ..orthcrn Miners' Union. No settlement yet rcaelied between Japan and United States as to who will police evacuated British sec-tor in Shanghai. Mayoral wcfcwue this morning to schoolboys taking part in Rugby foot- . ball competition for Northern Koller Mills shield. Morning sales oil the Auckland Stock Exchange were:—Broken Hill Proprietary. £2 1/9; Bank of Xew Zealand, £2 1/; Wilsons Cement. 18/6. No further increases meat prices after present rise to be allowed by Price i Investigation Tribunal, says manager Auckland Meat Company, Limited.