TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1928, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Anzac Day to-morrow. Aeroplane club formed in Whangarei. Scarlet fever still prevalent at Christchurch. Mumma arrived from Sydney this morning. A mine explosion in Queensland caused three deaths. First swimming sports at the Tepid Baths to-night. Arbitration Court sitting will commence on Thursday. Dominion motor body builders' conference continued to-day. Upward tendency for New Zealand prodhoe on London market. Governor-General will unveil Otahuhu war memorial to-morrow afternoon. Elderly man struck by railway engine at New Lynn last evening and killed. Twenty nominations received for nine seats on Mount Roskill Road Board. Special appeals heard at sitting of Transport Appeal Board this morning. Sitting of Auckland transport commission will begin on Thursday morning. New association formed in Auckland to protect interests of egg-producers. First steps taken at meeting last evening to form light aeroplane club in Auckland. Derelict collier Rakanoa towed out into Cook Strait from Wellington and sunk. Donation made by Auckland Rugby Union to assist injured Rugby League player. Takapuna Borough Council decided to define shopping areas in Takapuna district. Objections to increased valuations at meeting Takapuna Borough Council last evening. Onehunga Borough Council declined to contribute to appeal for funds for Auckland Museum. Minister of Agriculture inspected sits of proposed agricultural college in Hawke's Bay. A former chief investigator of Chicago was assassinated when getting into bed on Monday night. Seven members of All Black football team victims of strange illness on voyage from Sydney to Hobart. Protest against alienation of city reserves made at meeting of Protestant Political Association last evening. Magistrate reserved decision in test case at Otahuhu in connection with driving stock through Otahuhu Borough. New Zealand's girl-athlete, Miss Norma Wilson, enthusiastically farewelled at Gisborne on her departure for the Olympic Games. Provision made at Dominion Anglican Synod for revenue to be devoted to a fund for purpose erection of Anglican Cathedral in Auckland. Auckland Court of Convocation has drawn attention of the Government to inadequate provision for education of university students. Nearly 2000 radio listeners in Auckland province who have not pud license , fees liable to prosecution. Over 10,000 : license fees have been paid to data. ■ Essential difference .between personal and postal service of lepal documents emphasised in judgment given by Mr. Justice MacGregor in Supreme Court to-day. A raging torrent, 40ft deep, swept over a cotton farm at Rockhampton, Queensland, carrying away the occupants' house, besides an entire family of seven people, all being lost. As Captain Wilkins, the Australian aviator-explorer, was flying over the North Pole, the aeroplane met troublesome atmospheric conditions. It "bucked like a 'broncho" at one stage, and at another "was tossed about like a cork." Sales on 'Change to-day* South British Insurance £2 19/9, Goldsbrough, Mort £2 9/6, Wilsons Cement £1 18/3, N.Z. Bank £3, NX Insurance £2 1/, P. and O. Deferred Stock £251, N.Z. Breweries £2 6/6, British Tobacco £2 0/6. Ladies' own materials made up by experts. —Misses Leatherbarrow and Goldsbro', late of Gwen Smith, Ltd., 614, Dilworth Buildings.—(Ad.;