TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 250, 21 October 1926, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Auckland Grammar School sports at the. Domain to-morrow. Nelson Day addressee were given to-day in twenty-six Auckland schools. An employee of a city boot firm was fined £10 this morning for the theft of 10/ from his employers. Poll at Takapuna to-morrow on the borough council's proposal to purchase the local tramway and ferry systenL A decrease of £6285 10/ in the totalisator returns at the Auckland Trotting Club's spring meeting compared with last year. A headmaster has been appointed to the new Takapuna Grammar SchoolMr. C. M. Littlejohn, of Waitaki Boys' High School. Flood at Mercer now falling steadily, and it is expected that the road will, be passable for motor cars under their own power by Sunday. The Newmarket Borough Council it moving to have the police control of traffic retained in that borough for a further twelve months. Successful tests of briquettes made in Belgium from New Zealand coal slack have been carried out on ChristchurchLyttelton railway line. Lake Coleridge hydro-electrical power station's production will shortly be raised to 27,000 kilowatts by installation. of the eighth generating set. • The proposed harbour works were fully explained to business men by the Harbour Board engineer at the Chamber of Commerce monthly luncheon to-day. Sales on 'Change to-day: South Britisli Insurance £3, Auckland Gas £1 3/11, Wilson's Cement £1 13/3, Sanforda (ord.) £1 3/, Alburnia 4/4, Moanataiari (con.) 1/11, Kawarau (forward) 2/7. A Post Office employee pleaded guilty at the Police Court this morning to charges of abstracting postal notes from letters addressed to "Tattersalls." Hobart. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Three motor bus companies and three private motor buses have all given the City Council formal notice that they require the council to take over their buses and plant in accordance with the terms of the new Act. Thirty buses are affected.