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IA N extensive building programme now being carried out at the military district school at Burnham will provide accommodation for 30 officers and 140 other ranks at the cost of some thousands of pounds. The men who will be stationed there permanently will be housed in new bright surroundings. r pHE main rolls for the Auckland electorate have now been completed. and an increase of 27,631 in the number of voters registered is shown on the rolls of nine Auckland constituencies for the present year, when compared with the figures for 1935. Tliis year the total is 119.607. whereas three years ago it was 91,976. The 1935 total was considerably below the corresponding figure for 1931 owing to extensive purging of rolls carried out prior to the last election. * * * * a sequel to the disappearance of a safe last Thursday night from the premises of Buglass and Brower. Tainui Street. Palmerston North, and its discovery, forced open, a few miles from tiie city, a labourer, aged 31. was charged at the Magistrate's Court with breaking and entering and the theft of a safe, books and money of a total value of £2O. Accused was remanded. JOHN WILLIAM BYRNE, r.no of the four seamen who deserted from the Huntingdon on August 3. was today charged at Wellington and sentenced to a month’s imprisonment
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Northern Advocate, 9 August 1938, Page 6
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225Points From The News Northern Advocate, 9 August 1938, Page 6
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