BIG FIRE IN AUCKLAND

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 60, 4 December 1926, Page 10

BIG FIRE IN AUCKLAND

OPERA HOUSE THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION. Dominion Special'. Auckland, December-8. One of the biggest fires in Auckland for years has broken out •in Fullw* Opera House. Wellesley Street. .The outbreak was discovered shortly before half-past 11, and the whole building was soon enveloped in flames. The indication is that the building will be completely destroyed.

Be prepared. See that you have adequate fire insurance. Consult the Mer« cantile and General Insurance Go., Ltd., Panama Street, Wellington.— Advt. f . ' ■

“Auckland is becoming each year more and more a place where, professional men from the south want.:- to spend their- summer vacation, was the statement made by a well-known-clergy-man when speaking of the large number of ministers who were anxious to take supply during January and part of February in the pulpits- of the northern capital (states the ..Stay) .- Ministers have to take preaching engagements to help to pay the cost oi their holidays, on account of the decreased purchasing power of money. While he did not think it was a Wise thing for a minister on vacation to preach, because then his mind did not get the rest it should, yet no hard and fast rules could be laid down in regard to the matter. When congregations helped to pay for a month’s holiday, they expected their minister to: refrain from his ordinary work. Students; too, who hoped at vacation, time to get preaching work to do, did not quite get the chances' they should, and it was hard on them in that respect. The latest strike in New York City is that of the "shills." A “shill” « one who sits in a sightseeing bus until the time to start, and then decamps in order to occttpv a conspicuous place in the next waiting bus. Bus owners have found that it is necessary to have a couple of people in each waiting bus to attract cash customers. The ‘/shills” provide the needed touch to indicate that the bus is just going out. ' "Shilling” has become a regular trade in New York. Scores of people make their living by sitting day after day in these waiting buses... The ‘/shills” banded together recently, and were able to force their dailv wage from 2dol. 50 cents up to 3'dollars.