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Evening Star, Issue 23208, 6 March 1939, Page 16

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MAN WHO GAVE ALARM. A further message regarding tlio Auckland fire .'dates that 1). W. Evans was not the watchman; ho was a boiler engineer employed by a neighbouring firm. Ho told an interviewer' to-day that he had chased a gang of boys, aged from 111 to 12 years, out of Goldie’s timber yard about At the .same time be saw two men who arc alleged to be methylated spirits addicts emerge from the gate leading to a timber yard further down the road. He found that the office window was broken and the office reduced to a shambles. When ho passed the yard approximately an hour later he saw a burst of smoke directly behind the office, and fire was bursting from a pile of shavings which was as high as a house. A huge sheet of flame shot up to tin height of the office. He rushed to a street fire alarm.—Press Association. RIOTING IN 15 UN ARES. BENARES, March s.—ln communal rioting the casualties totalled 35 killed and 200 injured. CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS BOWLS. P.lay was resumed at 1.30, Rowland and Purdy contesting the semi-final. Rowland started off with a 3, and followed up with a 2, Purdy collecting a 3 on the third head. Rowland led 5-3, but Purdy built up well in the fourth, gaining another 3. The game developed into a grim struggle from this stage, and both men shaped well. On the fourteenth head the score was level -—ll-11. Piirdy collected singles on the next two heads, hut in a thrilling seventeenth Rowland again assumed the lead, adding to his score a 3, making the position 14-13. Rain now began to fall steadily, but the game continued. The pace of the bowls was slightly checked. The eighteenth saw the scores level again—14-14, while on the nineteenth Purdy put himself 1 up. Rowland, who was then 3 down, equalised on the twentieth head, the scores then being 15 all. Both men took great pains in the last head, but Purdy was successful in winning by a single, defeating Rowland by 16-15. STOCK EXCHANGE. Sales reported this afternoon; — 4 per cent. Stock (1849-52), £99 12s 6cl; Christcburch Gas Company, £1 2s 6d; Bond’s Hosiery, £1 Is; Milbum Cement, £1 14s. GILLESPIE’S BEACH RETURN. The return for the week was 370 z 4dwt from 15,000 cubic yards. The dredge worked for 122 hours.