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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18769, 27 May 1929, Page 1

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FOURTH EDITION.

CITY COUNCILLOR INJURED. Undeterred by the fact that a bone in one of his feet has been broken, as a result of an accident while playing- tennis, Councillor W. H. Williamson will attend tonight’s meeting of the City Council. Since the accident Councillor Williamson has had his foot set in plaster of Paris, but this will not prevent his attendance at the meeting of the Council. LORD BIRKENHEAD’S THREAT. LONDON, .May 26. Though Mr Churchill describes this as the dpi lest election campaign, one remembers that Lord Birkenhead. Mr Amery and Sir W. Joynson-Hicks had lively passages with interrupters. Dord Birkenhead threatened' personally to throw an interrupter about his £SOOO pension, he said: Tf I give up £30.000 yearly, and accept ofTiee, should not 1 he entitled to a pension? As far as I know, I am the only person in the Empire proposing to give up a pension within three months.” Mr Amery’s meeting was abandoned, owing to an uproar caused by anti-vivisectionists. Some of Sir Joynson-Hicks’s electors expressed dissatisfaction with bis refusal to pledge support for the Anti-Stag Hunting Bill.

COMPETITIONS. Ladies’ Recitation (” In the Cool of the Evening”)—.Miss Tui Northey, Dunedin (87) l; Miss Lily Kinsclla, Woolston (86) 2, and Misses Kathleen Chappie, Christchurch, and Mercia Hardman, Dunedin (85), equal, 3. Dominion Test Recital (gentlemen, ‘‘The Lowestoft Boat,”)—Messrs Claude Grey (Dunedin), Ronald Foster (Woolston), and Harold Shaw (St Albans) are recalled. POLICE STATION BOMBED. MELBOURNE, May 27. An unoccupied police station at Ivanhpe last night was badly damaged by i\ bomb which was thrown over the fence into the yard. The police believe that the motive was a hound, which recently played a prominent part in the capture of night prowlers. The bomb landed on the garden path in which it blew a large hole. A shed was wrecked, windows in the station were shattered and several houses in the vicinity were shaken. BricK from the shed was In*'-d into a nearby yard, narrowly missing a man’s head, and smashing the steering wheel of a car.

STOCK EXCHANGES. AUCKLAND, May 27. Sales.—Ohinemuri .Mines 8s; Bank of New Zealand 62s 6.1; National Bank £7 2s 6d; Bank of New (South Wales £52; Alburnja Is fid; Northern Steam 14s; Sanford 17s 0d; Taupiri Coal 26s 3d; Commercial Bank 30s 2d; Wilson’s Cement 425. WELLINGTON. May 27. Sales Reported. Commercial Bank of Australia (ord.) 30s 3d; Bank of New South. Wales £52; Bank of New Zealand 62s 6d; Bank of New Zealand (long term)-295. Sale.—Bank of New Zealand 62s Gd.