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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 230, 27 September 1940, Page 1

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High water to-day, 2-24 p.m. Auckland pilot-officer reported miasing. "Lucky Scoop" art. union drawn to-day. Alexander due at Onehunga on Sunday. Avrarua due from Sydney this afternoon. Hauturu due Onehunga to-morrow evening. Waipiata sails this evening for Wellington. "Heart to Heart" appeal to close on Mondav. Parliamentary session resumes nest Tuesday. Prominent Auckland yachtsman died yesterday. Port Waikato due from Lyttelton this afternoon. Sunset to-day, 5.51 p.m.; sunrise to-mor-row. 5.32 a.m. Channel ports again bombed by E_A.F. on Wednesday night. Over 30 Xazi planes down in raids on Britain on Wednesday. "Stars" fund for suffering civilians of London now totals £21.354. French Cameroon* reiterate loyalty to Britain despite l>akar setback. Honolulu Clipper scheduled to commence return flight to-morrow morning. Chinese prepare to advance into Indo-C'-hina; nationals being evacuated. Telephone exchange extensions at Onehunga and Ponsonby nearing completioa. First prize in "Lucky Scoop"' art union goes to Te Kuiti: Aucklander gets £500. "March of Time" cameraman states films to be made of Australia and Xew ZealandGarage proprietor fined £7 in Police Court to-day for breach of oil fuel regulations. Disintegration of French Empire am a result of Vichy action discussed by London paper. Inquest concluded into death of elderly woman who drank disinfectant in mistake for stout. Good progress being made in construction of suburban telephone exchange extensions. Government to subsidise steamer service to Great Barrier which commences early in December. Maori labourer, who was badly crushed by a log at Pokeno on September 3, died in Auckland Hospital. Berliners forced to spend most of Wednesday night in chillv air raid shelters as result of R.A.F. attacks. British submarine sinks Italian destroyer: British bomb Tobruk from air and Sidi Bairani from seaConsiderable damage done to important military targets in and around Berlin as result of longest R.A.F. attack. Of two women charged with shoplifting, one was fined £5 and the other acquitted in the Police Couit this morning. Satisfactory report on North Shore milk supply presented at meeting of Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council this morning. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange were:—Bank of Xew Zealand, £2 2/6 (2); X.Z. Insurance, £3 0/6; South British. £2 10.'; Dominion Breweries, £1 11/: X.Z. Breweries. £1 14'3: Broken Hill Proprietary. £2 69: Claude Xeon (X-ZJ, £1 16: Wilsons Cement. 10/7; X-Z. Refrigerating. £1 0/6: Clutha. 1/9: South British. £2 10/, £2 9,9; Stock, 15/4/46-49, £105 15/.