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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 275, 21 November 1927, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Have You Tried Hawk XXXX Ala? (Ad.J Burwood murder trial opened to-day. Mr. Justice Alpers died in Christchurch to-day. Prime Minister arrived in Auckland this morning. The Maunganui arrives at 7 o'clock to-morrow morning from Sydney. Legal decision of importance to several trades delivered in Supreme Court to-day. Members of Waitemata Power Board left for Arapuni to-day to view work in progress there. A suggested scheme for commercial arbitration is being considered by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, A man of 34 years of age, Harold Gordon Ghent, committed suicide yesterday at his residence in Remuera by taking poison. Action for slander by engineer to Mount Wellington Road Board against foreman of board's scoria pit, opened in Supreme Court to-day. There are at present the names of 12,000 unemployed on the book* of the New South Wales Labour Bureau. A gloomy Christmas is forecasted. British troops were rushed to Hankow at the urgent request of the authorities, to be held in readiness in case of emergency arising out of the tense situation existing there. Two young men committed to-day for sentence at the Supreme Court on four charges of making false money order telegrams. The offences occurred nearly four years ago. Sales on 'Change Auckland Hospital Board 5J per cent (debs.) £98 10/, New Zealand Insurance £1 19/6, Hay wards Pictures 17/6, Sanford, Ltd. (ord.) £1, Lucky Shot 1/5. Committee representing Auckland University College and Auckland Chamber of Commerce collecting information in regard to employment offering for pupils leaving schools at end of present term. One of the two women arrested at the Otahuhu trots on Saturday for bookmaking was fined £40, alternative two months, and the other, who had only started in business on Saturday, £10 or 21 days. The management committee of the Waterside Workers' Federation has decided to bring another overtime strike on all the wharves of all >orts of Australia. This, at present, will apply to overseas ships only. Boundaries of Auckland and Rotorua acclimatisation districts have been altered, the result being that from August 1, 1928, the whole of the Arapuni Lake will be under control of the Auckland body. The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, the Rt. Hon. L. S. Amery, ; arrived at Auckland this morning, : accompanied by Mrs. Amery and party, and is being entertained at a number of functions while in Auckland. For the first Auckland wool sale of the present season, which commences at the ; Drill Hall on Thursday night, 23,650 bales , have been catalogued. This is a record . for a first sale in this province, com- ,• paring with 18,000 bales in November, 1 1926. An elderly couple who had helped ' relatives to move house on Saturday > and stayed for the night had to be ■ taken to the hospital in a serious condition yesterday morning, through, gas poisoning from jets in the room they occupied not having been turned off. An attractive Sydney girl of 23 years, in admitting at the Court this morning two charges of -theft, related that a man from New Zealand site met at the Sydney Stadium advised her to come across, as there were plenty of rich "mugs" here and she would do well among them. Three young fellows whose small yacht capsized off Orakei wharf on Saturday evening were rescued when at the point of exhaustion. The rescuing launch, which had a party of schoolgirls aboard, in its turn got into difficulties through the yacht's rigging fouling the propeller. Gramophone records, Player rolls; heaps to choose from—-Moore's Piano Co., opp. H.M. Theatre. Call in.—(Ad.)