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RADIO BEACONS. Radio equipment for Cuvier and Mokn Hino Islands, at the entrance to Hanraki Gulf, to be placed on order immediately, the lion. P. Fraser stated to-day. Difficulty had been experienced in obtaining such equipment from England, but two beacons were on the Port Bowen duo at Wellington on July 11. Three stations would be equipped in Cook Strait—Baring Head, Capo Campbell, and Stephens Island—to bo followed by the two stations mentioned in Hauraki Gulf. Mr Fraser said ho expected Baring Head to be in operation in August. The lights at these stations wore being converted from oil burning to electricity, thus reducing the need for supervision.— Auckland Press Association. DIRECTION TO UNIONS. The national executive of the new Federation of Labour . has circularised the various affiliated unions expressing the desire that all unions which do not enjoy an annual holiday with pay should include in the holiday clause of all future claims provision for an annua! holiday. Ji also urged that organisations whose members do not receive statutory holidays with pay should include them in their future claims for an award or industrial agreement. - Auckland Association message. LAYING THE ODDS. Clarence Robert Murphy, stated to be a second offender on charges of betting, was fined at Palmerston North the maximum, C2O, for laying totalisator odds behind the racecourse on the tlav o', mo AJanawatn Trotting Meeting. It was stated that defendant accepted three bets laid by a Wellington constable. —Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 22686, 28 June 1937, Page 16
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