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Evening Star, Issue 21689, 7 April 1934, Page 24

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UNEMPLOAIMENT FIGURES. The official unemployment registrations for the four-weekly period ended March 1? totalled 4T,40i, :/ compared with 41,890 on February k 17. Those receiving relief totalled 36,853, as against 37,676. • It is estimated that 11,300 on relief _■ wore employed on developmental ■„ and reproductive work calculated ■ ? to benefit the dominion’s primary industries. The numbers engaged in industrial undertakings whoso 1 earnings are subsidised from the r board’s funds also show a decrease from 26,722 to 25,410. —Press AssoW . ' i' elation. P .AUCKLAND I MRES INTERRUPT COMMUNICATION. * No news has got through from F Auckland this afternoon. The lines s* arc down 21 miles south of Tauaf 3 piri, being destroyed by fire. roehamptox golf tourney. ’ In the first round of match play at Roehampton (states a London cablegram) the results included the following:—Perry beat Twine, I 3 up and 2 to play; Lacey beat t Mitchell', 2 and 1; Cotton beat f Holland, 4 and 3; Davies beat : Curtis, 4 and 3; King beat Sayner, ' 2 up. In the second round Perry beat Denny, 1 up; Lacey beat Cotton at the nineteenth ; R. A. 'Whitcombe beat Davies, 5 and 4; Kenyon beat King, 4 and 2. HAWKE'S BAY RACES. Juvenile, 70sovs. 5Jf. —3-3 Talari 7.0) 1, 2-2 Ara.uliue (5.3) 2, 4-4 Peggy’s Joy 3. All started. Won by a neck; two and a-half lengths. Time, Imiu 9 2-osee. AVONDALE RACES. Rosebank Handicap, lOOsovs. 7f. —B-8 Morelia (8.2) 1, 4-6 Brown Lap (7.6) 2, 10-9 Supreme Ruler (7.0) 3. Scratched: Charsong, Gipsy Princess. Modern Girl, Supremo Court. AA on by three-quar-ters of a length ; one and n-half lengths. Tune, imiu 20 3-sscc. [This was the first message from Auckland since noon ; received 3.40 p.m.'J OR EYMOUTTI R ACES. President’s Handicap, 1 lOsovs. lm. —1 Giggleswick (9.3) 1,1. Htuilbowlino (9.9) 2, 2'White Deo (9.2) 3. All started. AA’on by ball a length: three lengths. Time, 1.40. KJRK-AVINDEYER GOLF. After 18 boles the positions were: Dobson and Horton, all square. Menzies, 7 up on Ruwald. Hornibrook, 6 up on Apperley. Higher, 2 up on AVright.