Today’s Headlines

Northern Advocate, 3 January 1939, Page 4

Today’s Headlines

Holiday-makers invade Northland for New Year. Interest runs high in United States rearmament plans. Holiday racing results. Otago leading in Plunket Shield cricket. Record attendance at Waipu Caledonian sports. No information on Hikurangl mine flooding. Christmas revelry in Bay of Islands. New Year honours annoimced. Toheroas plentiful on Ninety Mile Beach. Further heavy traffic on railways. Barcelona again bombed after fiv*. months’ immunity; furious fighting in Spain. Censorship and intimidation at Lima’s Pan-American conference. Start the New Year right by making Henry Wilson’s new drapery store your shopping centre. Quality and prices are always right at this popular store, where the cash trading system is carried out in its entirety. No booking, therefore no loading of prices, to compansate for losses through bad debts. Wilson’s is the store of the thrifty—for those who pay as they go.

Second Test commenced; England v. South Africa.

113 deaths mar United States New Year celebrations. Toll of road in New South Wales holiday deaths. Youth shockingly injured when boarding moving train. .Two men killed when car goes over bank; week-end accidents. Banana trade complaints dealt with by commission. Annual New Zealand lawn tennis ■Journey results. Beautiful weather for New Year week-end. Over 100 Americans killed in New Year celebrations. Japanese leaders issue anti-Cojn-munist New Year message. There is no financial aim which cannot be attained through Life Insurance —no financial obstacle it cannot overcome. Information gladly given by Neal Armit, A.M.P. Society, Whangarei. Al 4.

Friendly Societies’ Picnic. Some 300 passengers, representative of friendly societies from throughout the Far North, left Moerewa this morning by special tram for Opua. After a day spent In the Bay of Islands, they again joined the train at Opua late this afternoon to return to their homes tonight.