LATE NEWS Acclamation Wins Trotting Stakes At Addington Today

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1947, Page 5

LATE NEWS Acclamation Wins Trotting Stakes At Addington Today

(P.A.) ... CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The Metropolitan Trotting Club’s meeting' is being concluded at .Addington today. The weather is fine and the track fast. Results: —

IMPROVERS’ HANDICAP, of £600; 4.37 class; two miles:— 1- MAUDEEN (G. Cameron) 1 3-4 NOTUS (T. H. Gunning) .. 2 2- MOUNT MELLICK (G. S. Smith) .. .. .. 3 All started. Three lengths; two lengths. Times: 4.23 1-5, 4.25 2-5, 4.26 1-5.

QUEEN MARY HANDICAP, of £850; 4.43 class; two miles:— 3- CHECKMATE, scr (C. S. Donald) .. .. 1 4- MOUNTAIN HALL, scr .. 2 11-9 BEL HAMED, 12yds .. ..3 All started. Mandrake fourth. Time, 4.24 3-5.

ADDINGTON TROTTING STAKES, of £750; one mile and five furlongs:— 2-2 'ACCLAMATION, 60yds (R. Young) ' .. .. .. .. 1 2- FLAME (coupled with winner) .. '.. .. .. .. 2 4- SANDY DUVAL, 36yds .. 3 Scr.: Bold Salute. TID-APA SCORES IN FIRST AT FOXTON. '■ (P.A.) FOXTON, This Day." The Foxton meeting opened, in showery weather. Results:— - HACK AND HUNTERS’ STEEPLECHASE, of £300; 21 miles:— 6-6 TID-APA 10.2 (F. IG. Buchanan) .. .. .. 1 3- GREY MORN 9.8 (Ivil) .. 2 5- TE AKI 9.3 (C. Eley) .. 3 Scr.: Spiro, Allisoper. Time, 5.12 2-5.

Dutch Declaration Paves Way For UNO Council Plan (Rec. 1 p.m.) BATAVIA, Aug. 29. In a declaration made tonight by Dr van Mook, the N.E.I. Government has defined the territories in Java and Sumatra in which it has taken over direct responsibility for law and order. Some well-informed circles regard the declaration as paving the way for Dutch acceptance of the Security Council resolution for the settlement of the Indonesian dispute, with which Dr van Mook’s visit to * Holland, beginning on Sunday, is believed to be connected. The possibility of a resumption of Dutch police action is considered to have become less likely by these circles. The demarcation lines defined in Dr Van Mook’s declaration are broadly the lines now held by the Dutch troops. The territory for which the N.E.I. Government has declared it is responsible includes most of West Java, some districts of central Java south of the Dutch-held port of Semarang and the whole of East Java as far east as to embrace the Malang valley. A notable area excluded is the province of Bantam at the extreme western end of Java. . On Madura Island the Government has declared its responsibility covers the districts of Bangkalan, Kabandjar, Boliq, Tordjun, Bunder, Pamekasan and Kotasampang and the regencies of Bangkalan and Pamekasan. Bangkalan and Pamekasan are the biggest towns on the island at present held by the Dutch forces. In Sumatra the area now held by the Dutch troops on the east coast, the west coast and the Palembang residencies are included in Dr van Mook’s declaration. The areas now under N.E.I. control include West Java’s valuable tea, quinine, rubber, sisal and rice-grow-ing areas, and East Java’s main sugar, coffee and tobacco-producing- . districts.

On Sumatra’s east coast it has acquired the' main plantation country, where thousands of tons of palm oil, tobacco and rubber are produced. On the archipelagos the main salt industry is in Dutch hands.

FUEL MINISTER TO VISIT BRITISH COAL STRIKE AREA

(Rec. 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, August 29.

Mr E. Shinwell, Minister of Fuel and Power, will visit the coal strike areas of Yorkshire on Sunday. H /> will address the miners on the general situation in Britain.

The Coal Board, in a summary of the strike- position, says that 16,701. men were out at 5 p.m. today from 14 collieries. The total loss of coal has been 100,104 tons, mainly from Grimethorpe, where the strike began and where 2300 men are out at a cost to date of 57,540 tons.

Nelson Wins Third Grade Basketball Championship

The second and third grade finals were decided at the Dominion basketball championships this morning; In the second grade Tauranga had a runaway victory over Horowhenua and in the third grade Nelson-beat Marlborough after a keenly-contest-ed match. - ' Tauranga (promoted from the third grade, which it won last year) becomes holder of the President’s Shield and Nelson becomes the new holder of the Kiwi trophy. The scores in these finals were: B Grade.—Tauranga 35, Horowhenua 13. C. Grade. —Nelson 27, Marlborough 19.