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Evening Star, Issue 20388, 21 January 1930, Page 14

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PROMISING YOUTH KILLED. A Cambridge message states that! a tragic happening occurred in tho Kaipaki district, eight miles from Cambridge at '10.30 this 1 morning, when a young man named John A. G'oodwjn (19), the youngest son of Mr and Mrs A. Goodwin, old residents, was killed in the harvest field on his father’s farm through the stacker boom falling on him, his neck being broken, and death ensuing in twenty minutes.. The fatality cuts off a promising young life, deceased having been very succcsfuj in his last examinations at Auckland University. TEST CRICKET. M'Girr (Wellington) has been selected as twelfth man for the test’ match, New Zealand y. the M.C.C. team, commencing on Friday next, —Wellington Press Association telegram. PLUXEET SHIELD CRICKET. The Wellington Association is unable to comply with the Otago Association’s suggestion to postpone the Otago-Wel ling ton match at Dunedin for a week.—Press Association telegram:

SLUMP IX' ARTIFICIAL WOOL. LOXDOX”, January 20.—The decline in th.e prices of wool has caused a practical stoppage in the manufacture of synthetic wool from vegetable fibre, which threatened at one time seriously to affect the wool industry in northern France. Artificial wool is nowproving too costly, to market,* despite three years’ experiments to reduce the cost. Several mills at' Roubais and. Lille, w-hich stocked artificial wool heavily when real wool was at the top price, have been badly hit.

WOOL PRICES STILL SAG. k An entire lack of animation distinguislied the second Auckland wool sale, which opened this morning.' 3VUh a view to meeting tho downward trend of prices, the brokers had Induced growers to mark reserves at what seemed exeeedingly poor figures, hut, low* though these were, tile bids were 1 slip ■ lower* and lots were; fi passed : with wearisome monotony. ;Bids for average fleeces ranged around 7d and Bd. It was soon apparent that values were below those at Napier earlier in the week.. Shabby wool was down fully a penny, and better class a halfpenny lower. Bradford did most of the buying, the Continent working on lower limits and picking up 'occasional lines. In a good season Auckland pastoralists might expect to net £400,000 from to-day’s sale. At to-day’s rales, the net return, if all bad been sold, would probably be under £240,000. —Press Association,