LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 December 1937, Page 8

LATE MESSAGES

AUCKLAND, December 31. There were forty-one bankruptcies at Auckland, this year, compared with 37 Jast year. AUCKLAND, December 31. Callers'at the Auckland Placement Office, this week, seeking work, included eight Australians, aged from 22 to 34. They had been in the Dominion two days. One was placed in a wool store, and three in freezing works. Two, who were good milkers, found work themselves on farms# All these men had been employed at cane cutting in Australia. They said they had heard excellent reports of working conditions in New Zealand. Auckland Placement officials described them as a very good type, eager for any kind of work. PARIS, December 30. Pierre Michelin, joint managingdirector of the famous tyre firm, was fatally hurt in a head-on collision at Montagris, in which the private secretary to the Minister, M. Paul Faure, his wife and son, were killedROME, December 30. Count Ciano and Mr Hotta signed the Italo-Japanese trade navigation agreement. PARIS, December 30. By IS votes to three, the Finance Commission of the Senate rejected the proposal to re-open the Paris Exhibition in 1938. LONDON, December 30. Secret drilling in the Milltown Cemetery, Belfast, was alleged against 11 men sentenced at Belfast, from one to six months’ imprisonment, for illegal drilling and promoting an unlawful association, and one for the possession of an illegal green flag inscribed "Join the Fianna.” WELLINGTON, December 31. Wellington bankruptcies in 1937 were 22, against 26 in 1936. The Official Assignee was appointed liquidator .for five companies this year, and for three last year. WELLINGTON, December 31. Plunk et Shield: At. lunch Canterbury 167 for seven. Scores: Stokes, c Ward b Gallichan .. 58 Cromb, c and b Crawford .. .. 28 Hadlee, c Lamason b Gallichan.. 21 Jacobs, not out 8 Webb, b Gallichan 0 Read, not out 0 Extras 4 AUCKLAND, Dec. 31. Mrs. Burgess arrived by the Mataroa from London, and left by air this afternoon for Wellington. On arrival this morning, she was met by her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Moult of Hataitai, Wellington, and two brothers. The family left for Wellington by car. “I am glad to be back in New Zealand again. We hope to make our home at Auckland. I am very tired of living in suitcases and travelling with John,” she said.

John is not yet a year old, is very chubby and energetic. He too likes flying. His mother said they travelled by air from Alexandria to Croydon, and John enjoyed it more than Mrs. Burgess, who found the baby’s energies just a little tiring.

AUCKLAND, December 31

Fatal injuries were sustained, this morning, by Mrs. Janet Annie Holiday, when after stepping from the kerb at Greenwood’s corner, Epsom, she was struck by a motor car. She received extensive head injuries and was dead when the ambulance arrived.