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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 May 1927, Page 16

Variety in Prices. —The New Lynn Town Board recently decided to make its office a little more modern, and tenders were called for the work. Imagine members’ surprise when the tenders on being submitted varied from £157 10s to £430. The successful tendered was Mr. Overington, at the first-mentioned sum.

Outlook for Miners. —An order for 400 tons of steam coal per week has been placed with the Taupiri Company by the Railways Department, and will come into operation immediately. Orders are in plenty for house coal at present, and with the Government order should combine to make for contmuous work tfecousfeout tfee winter.

“The Pleasure Buyers,” the Warner Brothers’ classic of the screen, released by Master Pictures, is announced as a mystery story that is founded upon the novel by Arthur Somers. Irene Rich appears as Joan Wiswell, the charming - society woman, whose relations with a gay debauchee just before he was killed, cast suspicion upon her. Clive Brook appears as Tad Workman, a New York police commissioner, who undertakes to solve the mystery. Others in the cast are Gayne Whitman, June Marlowe, Don Alvarado, Charles Conklin and Edward Piel, Frank Campeau, Frank Leigh and. Winter ELaik