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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 220, 16 September 1940, Page 1

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High water to-day 7.06 p.m. Italians occupy Solium in Egypt. Sunset, 5.42; sunrise to-morrow 5.48. Rumanian-Hungarian crisis continue*. Kakapo to sail to-morrow for Greymouth. Gandhi approves resolution wmpathisins with British. Bomb removed from vicinity of St. Paul"s, London. Anonymous donor gives £500 to Auckland orphanages. Former French Socialist Premier arrested in France. Eighteen Germans brought down on Saturday over England. Waimarino will leave Bluff to-morrow for north and way ports. London shelters increasingly assume appearance of dormitories. Government candidate win in NewSouth Wales by-election expected. Fatal gunshot wounds suffered by Welkford boy as the result of an accident. Fourth draft for mobilisation tentativelyordered for beginning of next month. American Clipper due this afternoon from Noumea with mail and 17 passengers. Much important business being conducted in shelters during London air raids. Buckingham Palace again bombed vesterday; raider blown to pieces by Spitfires. Waipiata scheduled to leave Lyttelton this afternoon for Auckland and way ports. Londoners cheer as British fighters rip the raiders from the eky in Sunday's battles. Auckland pilot-officer, misting since September 2, now reported to be prisoner of war. Wages increase for salaried officer* of Railway Department to be retrospective to August 12. Training in Canada enables airmen to gain more instruction a week than they would if in Britain. Auckland Transport Board donates £250 to "Auckland Star"' fund for the relief of distress in London. Special cost of living allowance for lower paid State employees announced by Minister of Finance. After quiet morning London had firet alarm yesterday about noon, after which many fights occurred. Three men before Police Court to-day-for being in a state of intoxication while in charge of motor vehiclee. Auckland winds up unbeaten Rugby season on Saturday with victory by 12 points to 10 over Wellington. German Air Force had worst day for some time yesterday, over 170 'planes being brought down over Britain. Man who duped his landlady by obtaining money from her by false pretences sentenced to period of probation in Police Court to-day. "Auckland Star" "heart to heart" appeal opened on Saturday for the dietressed of London had reached £6623 at 1 p.m. to-day. Previous decision of Auckland Transport Board not to grant concessions to soldiers in uniform adhered to by resolution at this morning's meeting of the board. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-dav were: —Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering (A pref.). £12/; Martha, 7/6; Bonds. 15/1/53-57. 3% p.c. £101; Broken Hill Proprietary* £2 5/9; N.Z. Drug, £3 14/; Wilsons Cement, 19/6.