TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 40, 17 February 1928, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Albany show to-morrow. Australia batting in match against Wellington. Further batch of grass fires ill the suburbs last night. Speedboat and outboard racing on VVhau River to-morrow afternoon. The Sanders Cup contest opened to* day at Half Moon Bay, Stewart Island. Club competitions in cricket, bowling, cycling, rowing, and yachting to-morrow afternoon. Ponsonby Club's annual harbour swim to be held to-morrow afternoon in St. Mary's boat harbour. Results of degree examinations of New Zealand University received from examiners in England. Divorce suit described by counsel as "a sordid matrimonial difficulty" heard in Supreme Court to-day. The Westfield freezing works dispute settled yesterday afternoon, and the works are operating as usual to-day. Auckland glassworks employees decided against a strike by 31 votes to 13 in a secret ballot held yesterday. Races at Wanganui to-morrow, and the opening day of the Otahuhu Trotting Club's summer meeting at Alexandra Park. The Manukau County Council supports the motorists in their view that the Exhibition Drive at Titirangi should be open to the public. v Principle of unemploment insurance warmly approved at a meeting in Auckland last night. Government is to urged to introduce a bill. The Dominion B.M.A. Conference opens at Hamilton next Wednesday, and four subsidiary medical conferences will be held there the same week. Sales on 'Change to-day: Bank NJZ., £2 18/6; National Mortgage, £3 14/; Taranaki Oil, 10/6; Soldiers' 5J per cent. Loan, £101; Government 5J per cent Loan, 1936, £101 2/6. Charge against Francis Robert Bennett of loitering outside Takapuna racecourse for the purpose of betting concluded at Police Court to-day. The magistrate reserved his decision. Mr. H. T. Merritt has been elected unopposed as president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce for the current year, in succession to Mr. A. G. Limn. The chamber now has 600 members. The secondary schools' championship tennis tournament opens to-morrow morning on the Stanley Street and Remuera courts, and in the afternoon the father and son tournament at Stanley Street. Anticipated that the secondary streets schedule of works out of the £710,000 loan will be completed by September. Steps are to be taken by the City Council to raise an additional 10 per cent on the loan. The match between the Australian cricketers and Nelson was drawn, the visitors batting all day yesterday and scoring 47? runs for nine wickets (Kippax 115). Tlie next match opened to-day against Wellington. "Teachers of a hard and moribund theology will never tame mankind, 9 ' was a remark made by the Rev. W. J. Elliott in the course of his presidential address at the opening of the New Zealand Methodist Conference in Christchorth last night, when speaking about the need for a revision of doctrine.