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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 142, 17 June 1926, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Mount Albert loan poll to-day. Manukau Bar workable again to-day. Mamaku Hill road to Rotorua reported impassable. The steamer Willisden arrives to-mor-row from Cuba with a cargo of sugar. Cabinet is giving very serious consideration to demands by State employees for increased pay. The steamer Kent arrives from Australia to-morrow to start loading for Continental and Home ports. Yesterday's fog in Sydney was the densest recorded since the institution of the weather bureau in 1858. Another wet match for the Australians. No play on the first day of the Yorkshire match on account of rain. There were 1436 applications for assistance from soldiers to the Auckland Patriotic Association last year. A Dunedin firm of farm implement manufacturers has put their employees on a four-day week owing to slackness of work. The qualifying rounds of the British open golf chamiponship are in progress, the Australian, Popplewell, making a good start. The Auckland Unemployment Relief Committee has found work for 321 men since it began operations. There are still 809 men out of employment. Melbourne yesterday experienced one of the coldest days on record, the grass temperature being 22.9, and the minimum shade temperature 34.1. Sales on 'Change to-day: Bank of New South Wales, £45 7/6; Commercial Bank, £1 11/; Ohinemuri Mines, 5/9, 5/10, 6/; Kawarau, 7/6, 7/5. Auckland Patriotic Association draws attention in its annual report to the regrettable development of T.B. among soldiers who were discharged as fit. A total of 5580 school children, from 27 schools in and about Auckland, visited the Winter Show this morning between 9 o'clock and noon. This brings the number of pupik to 8000 for the two days. A visitor from Ngatea (Mr. E, H. Dudding) fell, or jumped, from a moving tram near Greenwood'e Corner last night and was then struck by a passing motor bus. He died half an hour later at the hospital. At an inquest on the body of a woman, found in the surf at Manly, the police stated that her name was Annie Miller, and that she had come from New Zealand. She appeared to be about 65 years of age. Having failed this morning in hia appeal against the magistrate's decision, given in 1924, Abraham Walley Mohamed Salaman will now serve the original sentence of one month's imprisonment for attempted false pretence. Two men before Police Court thie morning on charge of breaking into an Onehunga jeweller's shop and stealing goods worth £108. One of them pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence, and the other, who denied guilt, was committed for trial.

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