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Northern Advocate, 19 December 1938, Page 4

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STEWARD from the Rangitane, which arrived at Wellington from London on Friday, was lost overboard during the trip out. The ship was put back, and a search made, but without avail. Also during the voyage an operation for appendicitis was successfully performed on one of the passengers. Besides the ship’s surgeon, there were two doctors and two nurses on board, and one of the doctors, a New Zealander, carried out the operation, assisted by the others.

James State coal mine has been closed until after the Christmas and New Year holidays. The decision is due, it is understood, to a set of circumstances firstly caused by the almost continuous rough weather over the past two weeks, which has resulted in delays to shipping at Wellington, Greymouth, and other parts of New Zealand, and also to the shortage of railway hoppers brought about by the inability to despatch orders through the port of Greymouth. As a result of the lack of shipping, watersiders at Greymouth are experiencing a lean time' for this period of the year. • • • • fpWO 13-year-old boys who engaged in a career of crime that included house and shop burglaries, thefts, receiving - stolen property, conversion of bicycles, and extensive damage to property, appeared in the Dunedin Children’s Court on Saturday. The. police described the case as one of the* worst in their experience. In the houses entered, the boys ransacked drawers and created chaos. They also emptied bottles of ink on furnishings and carpets. The boys were, committed to the care of the Child Welfare Department. « « • * • t crew of the ship Susana, which arrived at Auckland from Western Australia last evening, with a cargo of hardwood, including 50,000 railway sleepers, is manned entirely by Filipinos. The master of the vessel, Captain Miguel Lasa, is a Filipino, as are the other officers and the whole crew of 52 men. « * 4> * an unsuccessful search for Spanish treasure on the remote island of Suwarrow, the well-known pcean-going yacht Ngataki, owned and commanded by Mr J. W. Wray, of Remuera, Auckland, returned yesterday. In spite of the failure of the expedition, Mr Wray is still convinced that there is treasure to be found on ( Suwarrow, and he intends to return there after the next hurricane season, when he will take with him electromagnetic equipment designed to detect metals underground. • • • • 18-foot sailing championship of the world will be definitely sailed j in Auckland next February. Advice | to this effect was received on Saturday from Sydney by Mr G. M. Dennes, chairman of the New Zealand Yacht Rpcing Committee. A cablegram from the secretary of the New South \yales 18-Footer Sailing League stated: “Agreement reached world’s championship staged in Auckland February, 1939.” * * • * rpHE increasing popularity of air travel is shown in statistics prepared by Cook Strait Airways on the service for the 11 months to November 30, 1938. The number of passengers carried was 20,829, compared with 16,372 for the same period the previous year. Freight carried increased to 54,8971b5. from 28,0851b5.