TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 181, 30 July 1920, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

! England v. Xew Zealand at Domain \ to-morrow. Mining dispute conference sitting > again to-day. Legislative Council amendments to : Uaming Bill. \ Roll of honour unveiled at Masonic 1 Institute last night. [ War expenditure to March 31 lasfi . totalled .t 70,936,826. ! Auckland Kugby team plays Bay of ' Plenty reps, at lauranga. to-morrow. Big English and American mail due a at Wellington by Marama on Tuesday. 1 Board of Trade considers Auckland • Gas Company's increase in price of gas : justified. Bemission of duty on imported cement, '. up to 5000 tons decided upon to relieve , the shortage. :: [ Big Imprest Supply Bill passed yester- . day. Appropriations totalling over ; £3,000,000. J Judge Ewing recommends the release of practically all the I.W.W. prisoners ia " New South Wales. Permission for newspapers to publish: ' ''tote" dividends was inserted ia Gaming Bill yesterday by Council. Freeman's Bay branch of the Young, j Citizens' League formed last night. One hundred and nine boys link up. Judge Herdman's residence at Papanui ' is to be bought as home for soldiers by I Canterbury Patriotic Society. • Minieter of Agriculture states ihe is , considering the bringing down of legisla- ) tion to strengthen the barriers against , the trusts. r Eighty-eight divorce cases to be heard ; at Supreme Court sittings starting on ! Monday. Canterbury Aviation Co. lost £82 ?• on laet year's operations, receipts 'being . £9453 and expenditure and deprecia.- ---• tion £9536. Application of Select Committee's , recommendations for improving the pay '- in the Public Service estimated to cost [ £1,833,485.