TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 251, 22 October 1924, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

See llowt-y 'Walker About Tour Tot-th. (AO.y-.v-Mt. Eden loan poll today. ~"©• Twelve hours of sunsliine yesterday, * Grammar School sports at the Domain $ to-morrow. J Stonewall on Oaming Amendment Bill i in House last night. All Blacks play Lancashire, Hie y twelfth match, to-day. .I. ' Auckland Kuftby T.oajrue expert. tot." show a profit of floOO on the present •'"• Eleven tins of opium, valued at. £110, discovered by Customs officers on the ; Jlaheno this morning. The Mayor, Sir James Gun son, will he absent from the Town Hall for several * weeks, owing to indisposition. New Zealand Municipal Association's A annual conference will open at the Town ' Hall to-morrow morning. Dominion Tourist League established ; to-day at a conference ot peoplo ill- > terested in the tourist traffic. ,' The Auckland Hospital Board collected" ; £17,000 in fees for the first six months of the present year, a record for the> board. Margaret Williams, aged 74, with a record of 213 police convictions, sentenced this morning to two years reformative, treatment. The Anglican Primate of the Provinrp ot New Zealand, Archbishop Julius, has announced his intention of resigning next year. Evidence being taken at the Ministers' room, G.P.0., this afternoon by the Railways Commission from the Cuaml>er of Commerce. The High Commissioner for New Zealand (Sir James Allen) announces that it will be impossible for the Dominion to take part in the Empire Exhibition in .1925. Railwaymen voted heavily for the 44----hour week in the ballot taken in accordance with th; recommendation of the* Wages Board, the poll being 2151 for 44 hours, and 682 for 48 hours. A married woman, Gertrude Kirkcaldy. died under anaesthetic, near the close of an operation at the hospital yesterday. At the subsequent inquest the Coroner found that no blame was attachable to the surgeons. Labour's Grand Carnival, 3 days.—Ad. Right in the city. Huge clearance spring samples, save pounds. Third floor, Strand Arcade. —Warren's. — (Ad.) Beautiful selection of model frocks and costumes. Elsie Ginn, 40, Winstone Building, Queen Street. — (Ad.) Ernie Roberts, Errie Roberts, tailor, latest cut, 199, K'hape Ed., over U.F.S. Dispensary. T?hone 4210 (2 rings).—Ad.