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Kaikoura Star, Volume LVI, Issue 87, 5 November 1936, Page 2

A strike of 39,000 workers in the seven marine unions led by AI-r Harry Bridges paralysed Pacific and Hawaiian ports last Friday, tying up 119 ships and causing police precautions for fear of a repetition of the 192!) violence, when seven were killed in a 34 days’ dispute costing 200,000,000 dollars. A London message- states: A man who falls asleep driving a car is not responsible for a smash. This was the decision of Hull magistrates who held that such a condition is equivalent to a sudden illness and dismissed a charge against an Air Force officer of driving without due care. He collided with some trees and explained that he was very tired and fell asleep. A Cabinet crisis in Iraq is reported to have ended with a military coup d’('tat. Everything is now quiet. Aeroplanes flew over Bagdad and dropped leaflets demanding the resignation of the Government. They then bombed Government departments. Faced with the possibility of bloodshed. the Premier resigned. Hikmet Sulaiman has been appointed as his successor. Invoice books, dockets, and billheads, cheapest and best at the Star Office.