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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 121, 24 May 1941, Page 1

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Auckland Weather Forecast.—Fine, later cloudy. Trots today at Alexandra Park. Forest fires raging in Canada. Official count completed of city elections. Lord Austin, British motor magnate, dead. Empire Day observed in Auckland to-day. Australian troops reinforce garrisons in Crete. Kugby championships continued this afternoon. Soccer matches this afternoon at Bland- . rd Park. Large number of territorials taking part in army exercises. Darlan says lie will not give the French Fleet to Germany. l>rim« Minister of Australia left for Sydney this morning. King Peter of Yugoslavia arranging to take refuge in Canada. Enemy troopships and tanker sunk by British submarines off Libya. Xo progress made yesterday by German air-borne troops invading Crete. League football senior competitions advanced a further stage to-dav. \ isiting- Netherlands Minis ens left by Pau-Ameucan Clipper this morning. Large number of school children travelling on trains, returning from bolidavs. Acting-Prime Minister and Minister of Supply left for Wellington this afternoon. fvro men fined £5 in Hamilton Court lor being in possession of drink near a dance hall. Twenty cases of spinal meningitis in Bay of Islands district, one being reported yesterday. Approximately £6000 expected as result of yesterday's patriotic street appeals in city and district. Fierce hand-to-hand struggle in progress as Empire and Greek forces mop op Germans in Crete. National party conference carried a remit to further the interests of women Parliamentary candidates. Canterbury Education Board suggests that teachers exempted from military service on pacifist or conscientious grounds be debarred from profiting in salary.