TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 189, 11 August 1922, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Vielt T. Clark's Quality Shoe Sale. (Ad.) Xavua leaves Suva to-day for Auckland. Auckland v. Thames at Eden Park tomorrow. Last day of the C.J.C. winter meeting to-morrow. Negotiations completed for the widening of High Street. Manure-wa held its first community sing-song last night. Hawthorn is declared a noxious weed within the city of Auckland. Niagara from Vancouver with 429 passengers, of whom 194 landed here. Manuka left Sydney for Auckland yesterday with 170 passengers. Due on Holiday. First hockey shield match of the season at Remuera to-morrow—Waikato v. Auckland. City Council last night decided to Invite tenders for the purchase of the municipal fish business. A local railway board proposes to raise a loan of £145,115 to construct a line from Puketutu to Aria, via Piopio. The population of the Dominion is now estimated at 1,316,902, comprising 672,697 males and 644,205 females. Tenders are to be invited by the City Council for the lease of the "Old StoneJug" property for a period of five years. City Council has decided that the Grey Statue must be moved from its present place outside the Town Hall. A traffic danger. Building permits were authorised by the Takapuna Borough Council on Wednesday night for new buildings and additions estimated to cost £6,616. The matter of paying bonuses to holders of policies in the State Fire Office is being considered by the department concerned. Part of the roof area over the Town Hall is to be covered at a cost of £295, and furniture supplied at an expense of about £150, to form a social room for the Councils staff club.

A young lady ie claiming £10 damages from the City Council for injuries alleged to have been sustained by tripping on a badly constructed footpath in Queen Street. The Council, on the recommendation of ite engineer, disclaims liability. There's nothing like whisky— and there's no whisky so good as "Sandy Mac." Scotland's pride.—(Ad.)