STOP PRESS

Evening Star, Issue 22638, 3 May 1937, Page 16

STOP PRESS

POST OFFICE REVENUE. The Post Office revenue for the year ended March 31 was £3,884,000, compared with £3,550,000 for 1935-30. The main totals and the increases (shown in parentheses) were:—Postages, £1,366,000 (£105,000) ; telegrams, £334,000 (£20,000); tolls, £565,000 £63,000) ; telephone, £1,339,000 (£86,000). The toll traffic in March was the highest on record, 1,268,500 communications, with revenue £55,000. The number of telegrams (467,000) was the highest for seven years, excepting Decembers and February, 1931 (Napier earthquake).—Press Association. SHOCKING ACCIDENT. A Palmerston North Association message states that a shocking accident occurred at Milson Aerodrome, Frederick Charles Norton, middle-aged and married, being killed instantly when he was using an oxy-ncetylene plant to cut the top off an empty benzine drum. It is believed that the fumes remaining in the drum caused the explosion. CHILD INJURED. Ernest Little, aged 9, residing with his parents at Maungatua, was admitted to the Hospital this afternoon with lacerations to his face, received when he fell off the Berwick bus opposite the Maungatua school. BERNARD SHAW. Dr Duncan, Government balneologist, who returned by the Niagara, renewed acquaintance with Mr Bernard Shaw in England. Mr Shaw said if he could arrange his business affairs he would like to come to New Zealand and finish his days here.—Auckland Press Association.

STOCK EXCHANGE. Sales reported this afternoon: A:;~oc:?.trtl News (pref.,), £1 3s 4-Jcl; Milburn Lime and Cement, £1 17s 6d; ‘Otago Daily Times,’ £2 6s 6d.