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AUCKLAND TRAINING COLLEGE. Extensive alterations to the Auckland Training College are contemplated in the near future. Mr W. T. Anderton, M.P., today received from the Minister of Education, the Hon. P. Fraser, advice that Cabinet had approved a grant for the building of the women’s wing. This will include a gymnasium, cafeteria and common room. SURPLUS OF POTATOES. In commenting on the marketing of potatoes, the Minister of Marketing, the Hon. W. Nash, said that the Government was communicating with organisations in various countries with a view to the possibility of selling the Dominion’s surplus stock.
RABBIT SHOOTER’S DEATH. Mr Henry Thomas Milton Jones, aged 28, a single man, employed by the Fordell Timber Company, who accompanied two companions to Kauangaroa dn a rabbit-shooting expedition yesterday morning, became separted from them, having intimated that he would go over a ridge to look for rabbits. As he could not be located again before dark, his companions returned to Wanganui and reported the matter to the police. Three constables located the body at 2.15 o’clock this morning, lying across a pea-rifle. There were no marks of injury on the body, and it is presumed that Mr Jones dropped dead.
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Northern Advocate, 20 June 1938, Page 5
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