TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 221, 17 September 1924, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Last Three Days Sclineiaeman's Sale. (Ad.) .__ An inch and a fifth of rain fell last ; night. ro'ii Town board elections to-day, irons close at 7' x>.m. Butter and cheese grading conference at the Southdown works to-day. < Several prisoners admitted to proba- ~ tion at the Supreme Court this morning. Foundation stone of the new G.U. block at the hospital laid this afternoon by the Minister of Health. Rotorua due at Wellington this afternoon from London and Southampton, with about 450 passengers.* V A complete agreement - tae been reached in the Conciliation Council in the local bodies' labourers dispute. Circumstances of a drunken squabble in Marmion Street last night ventilated in the Police Court this morning. A number of defaulting territorials and senior cadets • before the Police Court this morning, fines ranging up to £5 being inflicted. The need of broadening our education system in order to equip pupils for their future careers discussed to-day afc the • Education Board. .. . A one-legged man named Jeremiah O'Reilly, described as "a persistent cadger "and a nuisance," sent to gaol today for three months for vagrancy. A steamer from Hamburg was seized and detained at Durban. She had a cargo of rifles, machine guns, and ammunition, presumably-, for China. Establishment of Junior High Schools ' at Whahgarei, Matamata and Northcote discussed at Education Board this morning with the Director of .Education- . The Prince of Wales has been entertained by Mr. Rodman Wanamaker, one of the famous • millionaire family. He won a'few dollars at the" races. In eight months-the 17,591 migrants who went to Australia took £216,5(0. The figures were quoted in refutation of the allegation that all were paupers. The medical -superintendent of the: Auckland Hospital, Dr. Maguire, will make a special study of the progress of cancer research when on a visit to England next year. . The Auckland Farmere' Union Political Committee recommends that Country Party candidates contest ten countryelectorates in the Auckland Province at - the next general elections. Te Kuiti's burning question, the revaluation of Crown lands,. was . before the Supreme Court this morning, when an application was made for the Court to appoint an umpire for revaluation. Two men, John Graham and Albert Edward Duncan, sentenced at the ) Supreme Court this morning, to four years and-two years respectively for breaking,, entering, and theft. Big spring offer. New goods. Itocksj jumpers, costumes, to be cleared. Warren's., Strand Arcade.—(Ad.) Ernie Roberts, Ernie Roberts, tailor, latest cut; 199, K'hape Rdl, over U.F.B. Dispensary. 'Phone 4210 (2 rings).—Ad.