TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 187, 8 August 1919, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

fr-jr— Rugby College Day at the Domain to-morrow. A twopenny minimum tram fare has been adopted in Wellington. Auckland v. Hawke's Bay League match at Eden Park to-morrow. Christchurch has been divided into blocks as a precaution against another influenza outbreak. Two transports in to-day with returning troops—Matatua from England and Ulimaroa .rom Egypt. ._ The Auckland, ladies' provincial hockey tournament starts at the Remuera ground to-morrow afternoon. The first returning draft of fit men from Egypt arrived by the TJlimaroa this morning, to the number of 1,000. The Government is awaiting the Imperial Government's _e_i_ion before de:_ring a date for the official closing ot ! the war. To-day is the anniversary of the great allied offensive in France which ended. with the armistice and th. German surrender. t Last month the Repatriation Depart- : ment granted £26,634 in financial aasisi tance to returned soldiers in the Auck--1 land district. j The Government Bias "bought the Orongo Estate of about 2,000 acres at Kopu, Thames, for settlement by. returned soldiers. Pour years ago to-day the New Zealanders, after a desperate struggle last-- , ing three days captured the Chunuk Bair ridge at Gallipoli. ..^. There aTe now over 60,000 returned soldiers on the Repatriation Department's register, of whom 3343.7 have returned since the beginning of the year.