10,000 Week-End Visitors inspect Port Auckland
NEWS IN BRIEF . , .
More than 10,000 visitors, it is estimated, satisfied their curiosity aDout the new streamlined motor-vessel Pori Auckland during the week-end. From Saturday afternoon onward there was a stream of sightseers to Central Wharf, Auckland, and yesterday afternoon, when over 7000 people went on board, a queue extended for some hours from the ship’s side out through the wharf gates. * * * * Contributions toward Hamilton’s quota of £7500 in the Auckland provincial cancer research campaign appeal of £IOO,OOO have now reached £3532. Donations include £IOO from the Hamilton City Council, and £l6 from staff and patients at the Waikato hospital, * / * While attending the Avondale races on Saturday morning, Mr James William Peter Carter, a carpenter, of Orewa, collapsed and died. He was aged 47 * * * * The National Airways Douglas Pakara. due at Auckland yesterday from Rarotonga, will now arrive tomorrow afternoon or Wednesday morning. The Pakara is being retained at Fiji in make several return (rips
between the two airports of Nandi and Nausori. “There is quite a demand for tijis service, and there probably a backlog of passengers',” said a National Airways official last night. *•* * * The Government has authorised the owners of the Waikato Hotel, Hamilton, which has been without boarding accommodation since 1941, 1o complete the rebuilding which was started eight years ago. The estimated cost of the work is £OO.OOO. The need for completing the building has been emphasised at several meetings of the Hamilton Licensing Committee. At the last meeting in June the proprietors were given a temporary licence until July 31 to enable them to submit a scheme of reconstruction. A man received fatal injuries when he was struck by a motor car while cycling with his family in Mangere East at about 4.30 yesterday afternoon. He was: Mr Edwin Ralph Dearlove, aged 30. a carpenter, of Favona Road, Mangere.
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Northern Advocate, 18 July 1949, Page 7
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