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The touring Now Zealand bowling team defeated the Nundah Club yesterday, by 93 points to 59. The New Zealanders’ scores were: Dee, 27-17; Lancaster-. 23-11; Adess, 21-18; Sinclair. 22-13.
Two maids were killed in a fire at the Buckinghamshire mansion of Sir William Currie, chairman of the P. and O. Company, and a butler, who attempted to rescue them, was overcome by smoke and sent to hospital. Sir William and Lady Currie are at present in London.
About 300 politicians of the Benes regime in Czechoslovakia are shortly to be tried in secret on charges of personal enrichment. For betrayal of military secrets. Karl Jurtb. aged 42, was beheaded, while Alfons Luedkc, aged 35, was similarly executed for organising Communist cells, says a Berlin message.
The vacancy in the House of Commons for the South Portsmouth seat, caused by the elevation to the peerage of Major Sir Herbert 'Cayzer has been ,filled by the unopposed election ..of Sir J.'M. Lucas,.Conservative.
Sir Harry Lindsay, Director of the Imperial Institute, is to visit New Zealand to attend the Centennial Exhibition, after which he will go to Sydney, in the course of a campaign to widen the interests and extend the usefulness of the Institute, says a message from London.
It is imported that an important economic conference will shortly meet under the leadership of the Axis Powers, to discuss the introduction of the “most-favoured nation” clause by the Central and South-East European bloc under the leadership of Italy and Germany.
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Northern Advocate, 15 July 1939, Page 2
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