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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 223, 19 September 1940, Page 1

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Hijrh water to-day. S.SS p.m. Pdenparoa ]>o*i office buicled. Sunset, 3.44: «m:iw to mon-ov. 3.44. Kajiniio to sail to-niotiun lor l*o: Vianl. Increase of petrol lor <1<"-uWe-shiit Taxi<. Two rare biids presented to Auckland i Zoo. Flying-boat A-narua anived this aflerDoon. Auckland Tailors' Union »eeks new award. Italians moving up. hugging coa?t of Egypt. Many daylight raids on Britain on Wednesday. Reopening of Onekaka works coneidered unlikely. liicreaseS regularity in arrival of mails in Egypt. Fifty-«x Italian 'planes down since August S. Waiana ;o sail to-niorrow for Wellington and South. LamUelh Walk Market suffers under Nazi !.onil».<. Petrol restrictions diwut*.ed by Chamber of Commerce. FarmeT* rxpretw resentment at increased tjx on <*to<-k. Reduced shipping service between Sydney and Dominion. _ Six prisoners in Suiprejiie Court vhis morniiic. Elderly man who stole £ 15 from a friend admitted to probation. Karepo and Waipiata expected at Auckland on Saturday from South. Over 40 German "planes brought down around Britain on Wednesday. United Kingdom's High Commissioner encourages conservation of petrol. Trouble brewing in Xew Caledonia between de Gaulle and Petain factions. Rome radio slates that 1200 Nazi 'planes took part in raids on Britain on Tuesday. German damage to t/ondon'e food supply made good in short time, save Food Minieter. Egyptian paper says western Egyptian desert is destined to be burial ground of Fascism. British Air Ministry outlines reason for R.A .F. concentration on military objective* in Germany. Heavy German air lcese* since beginning of August mentioned in British Air Minister's speech. For being intoxicated while in charge of a motor van engineer sentenced to seven days' imprisonment. Japanese Consul-General at Hanoi. TndoCfcina. predicts signing of agreement with French within 24 hour*. Italian communique, referring to advance into Egypt «aye "stubborn enemy resistance has been smashed." Pocket-handkerchief republic of Saa Marino in Italy ends 25 years' war on paper with Germany and declares war on Britain. Information received by Chamber of Commerce indicates no likelihood of direct trade beins established between Xew Zealand and Xew Caledonia. A woman, formerly employed in solicitor's office, pleaded not jroilty in Police Court to-day to a charge of stealing £1296: committed to Supreme Court for trial. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day ■were: Farmere' Fertiliser (pref.K £1 2/9: Stock. 31 '5/SJ-58. 4 ti.c. £107 \5 J : Bank of Xew Zealand. £2 2/6; Stock. £105 10/. Applications bv Transport Board and Hospital Board for exemption from payment of 5 per cent increase granted to workers under award* and industrial agreements before Arbitration Court tt>-<l»y; decisions reserved.