TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 273, 18 November 1927, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Luna Park Opens Tomorrotr. 2 and 7. (Ad > Girl Guide rally at the Domain tomorrow. The Bona is due to-morrow evening from Suva with a cargo of sugar. Arbitration Court to sit in Auckland for one week commencing December 1:1. Lawn tennis in Auckland will start to•morrow with a senior knock-out competition. The Waitemata Power Board"? loan of £$0,000 was carried yesterday by a six to one majority. The Otahuhu Trotting Club's tprinj: meeting opens at Alexandra Park tomorrow. Bacing also at Levin. A man named Bonald v fined £10 at Uatamata yesterday f« >r shooting a pheasant out of season. Owing to a heavy fog Captain Giles has postponed his 6tart for Honolulu, ea route for New Zealand, until io-da_v. Pirst importation of Canadian pedigree pigs for over 11 years arrived this afternoon from Vancouver by the Waitemata.

Following te=ts with motor cycles the French War Ministry is organising an experimental body of 400 motor cyclists to substitute a cavalry unit. As a result of an inter-provincial conference, the Canadian Government is embarking on a new and unrestricted migration scheme with Britain. Marine Department's inquiry into the Dixieland proposal to erect swimming baths at Point Chevalier opened at the Government Buildings this afternoon. Government properties in Wellington estimated to be worth between £3.000,000 and £5.000,000, on the unimproved value basis. Government pays no rates. At the Napier wool sale, held to-day. the high values reached at the Wellington sale on Monday, were, jreneraliv speaking, maintained. Bradford buyers competed keenly. There were *4000 candidates for the annual Auckland University and Education Department's examinations this year. Of these 1400 have already sat for their exams. A Government bill introduced in the House of Representatives makes some important changes in the method of appointments to the Railway and Post and Telegraph Departments. The Mayor reported to the Citizens' Unemployment Committee this afternoon that the drive had brought in £1600 to date. This brings up the Town Hall fund to approximately £8000. Private cables received in Auckland state that the Port Caroline, which took 50.000 boxes of butter from this port, has arrived in London with 30.000 boxes more or less damaged by water. Auckland Harbour Board is considering raising a fnrther £100,000 for harbour works, this being portion of the million loan proposal of 1924, of which a quarter of a million has already been | raised. Finishing day of the Auckland Cricket Association's two-day senior matches tomorrow afternoon at Eden Park, Devonport, and King's College. No senior A matches under the Suburban Association to-morrow. The ice-blocked wreath which the New Zealand ex-Soldiers' League forward ed to London for Armistice Day, but which arrived over-late from Wellington, has been placed beneath the King's Cenotaph by Sir James Parr. Sales on 'Change to-day: Commercial Bank (ord.) £1 9/2; Auckland CUv Debentures 5 per cent, 1936. £94 10/; National Mortgage £3 12/6; Waipa Collieries 15/10; Northern Steam Sanford Ltd. (pref.) £1 0/9; Amusement Park 16/6; Lucky Shot 1/5. A perfect fairyland of beautiful millinery and gowns for the race show* ing at Miss Dixon's, 166, Queen Street, and 32, Victoria Street.—(Ad.) £10.000 surplus stock, genuine halfprice clear—nee sale, awaiting tout inspection at David Silk's 3 Jewellery Stores.—(Ad.) t jHHHi