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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 252, 23 October 1919, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Land aggregation is expected to becked 'by legislation this session. The embargo on amateur wireless >lants is not to be removed at present. Old age and other pensions are to be lealt with comprehensively next session, The Main Trunk express from Auckand last evening contained about 350 passengers. Polling booths are to be appoint;*! it each military hospital where soldiers ire in-patients. Question of testing n system of light railways in the Dominion is at present before the Government. Building Trade Conference to-day agreed to apply to the Court for one award to cover trade. Wider powers are needed by Land Boards in dealing with education leases, says Mr. J. P. Greville. Special provision is to be made for coast defence troops employed in New Zealand during the war. As the result of a motor collision at Oamaru yesterday Mr. James Johnstoa had his skull fractured. It is stated that the Mahcno will probably be put into the AucklandSydney passenger service. A campaign has been commenced in Hamilton to raise £15,000 for the erection of a V.M.C.A. building. Forty miners were killed and others injured by the collapse of a winding engine in Cornwall yesterday. Mr. Asquith cays that an expert inquiry regarding a levy on capital in Britain is an absolute necessity. General Richardson presents medals won by Auckland Grammar School boys for shooting to-morrow afternoon. Forty out of fifty-one of the claims arising out of the Heathcote tram smash have been settled at Christchurch. I Takapuna is renaming eeveral of Hβ streets after local soldiers who have fallen, and one after Viscount Jellicoe. Proposals for an electric lighting scheme were outlined at a meeting of the Birkenhead Borough Council last evening. An attempt is being made to arrange for a reduction in the frcighfr on hem» and tow exported to the United Kingdom. The High Commissioner is advcTtijI ing in the United Kingdom for & director and assistant-director of foreste for New Zealand. Yudenitch is pretty confident that he can take Petrograd, and ha£ appealed to America for assistance in feeding the starving population. The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants considers the Railway Bill totally inadequate in the increase in wages to second division members. Experts estimate that a hundred and fifty millions worth of food now imported into Britain could be produced locally, thus enormously benefiting exchange. H. H. Thompson, of Wellington, ii petitioning Parliament for £2000 damages for wrongs suffered from court martial as a result of statements regarding Captain Hotop. - The Undesirable Immigrants Bill, introduced to the Houee, provides' thai Germans ■or Austrians cannot land in New Zealand without the authority of the Attorney-General. A huge spring show of blouses, Auck« land's popular shopping pb.ee, 3rd floor, Strand Arcade. —Warren's Noted Showrooms. — (Ad.) ' Come in to-morrow, and see our great display of costumes. Get one for the holiday.—Tudehope's, Symonde Street. (Ad.) Sports' footwear, every description, lowest prices, at Pearson's Boot Storea» Karangahape Road, Newton.—(Ad.) Special clearance Jap. crepe dressing gowns, samples only.—Warren's Noted Showrooms, 3rd floor, Strand Arcade.— I Ad.) Crepe merle, 46in, in all the new shades, highly mercerised, suitable for dresses, and dainty underwear. Postag* paid, at Ford's, Karangahape Road.—-Ad. Our " low prices mean high savings. I See our bargain ready-to-wear hats, real i smart styles, all 6/11, worth double.^ Tudehope's, Symonds Street.—(Ad.) - ' '' " "^