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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20184, 3 May 1937, Page 6

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NEW ZEALAND BUTTER. LONDON MARKET QUIET. LONDON, May 2. Butter is quiet on a rather difficult market, but Tooley Street merchants do not anticipate a break in prices. BRITAIN AND FRANCE. AN AGREEMENT SIGNED. GENEVA, May 2. An agreement relating to a uniform system of maritime buoyage, drawn up by the expert committee of the Organisation of Communications and Transit, was signed on April 5 by the British Government and on April 22 by the French Government. PREVENTING TERRORISM. INTERNATIONAL ACTION. GENEVA, May 2. The committee for the international repression of terrorism has concluded the revision of two draft texts for the conventions. The first deals with the prevention and repression of terrorism, and the second provides for the creation of an international penal court, composed of judges appointed by the League of Nations Council. KILLED INSTANTLY. BENZINE DRUM EXPLODES. PALMERSTON N. Monday. A shocking accident occurred at Milson Aerodrome. Mr Frederick Charles Norton, middle-aged, married, was killed instantly when using an oxy-acetylene plant. He cut the top off an empty benzine drum and it is believed the fumes remaining in the drum caused the explosion. SUICIDAL INTENTION. WOMAN DROWNED IN SEA. NAPIER, Monday. Evidence of identification was givon at the inquest into the death of Dora Beatrice Yule, of Palmerston North, single, whose body was found in the sea on Saturday. A note was left for relatives intimating that she was worried by illhealth and her body would be found in the sea. SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE. SYDNEY, May 3. The following sales were recorded on the Stock Exchange;—Bonds—3 3-8 per cent, 1349, £IOO 2s 6d; 4 per cent, 1953, £lOl 17s 6d; 1959, £IOO 3s 9d. Commercial Bank of Sydney, £22 17s; Bank of New South Wales, £2B 7s 6d; Wilcox-Mofflin, 14s; Tooths, 58s 3d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 83s, new, 70s 9d; Electrolytic Zinc, 59s 6d; Morts Dock, 13s.