TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1928, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

_ In liis first big match for Gloucester the ex-Aucklander Dacre made 69 runs against Oxford University. "Growing immorality of the present day" the subject of a resolution by Featherston Chamber of Commerce. Advertising Club's exhibition luncheon at Town Hall to-day. Beception at Government House this afternoon.

The new steel tug built in England and assembled at Mr. George Niccol's yard, was successfully launched this morning.

An Empire Day luncheon will be Hd at the University Buildings to-morow by the Auckland fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute.

Two Dunedin men named by the United Party as its candidates at the general election deny that they are committed to stand for that party. This month is keeping up with the start it made by giving us some rain every day. Yesterday a further eleven points fell, bringing the total for May to date to 7.44 inches. The Hospital Board has decided not to proceed with the erection of the proposed new administrative block owing to financial stringency among the contributing local bodies.

Important decision by Judge MacGregor in Supreme Court to-day on a point of law regarding the accessibility of documents held by a firm of solicitors on behalf of its clients.

Sales on 'Change to-day: Union Bank, £14 17/6; Bank of New South Wales, £48 10/; Government Inscribed Stock, 51 per cent, 1936, £101; Electrolytic Zinc (ord.), £1 11/ ; South British Insurance, £3 1/; Kauri Timber, £1 l/ ; Wellington Woollen (ord.), £6 4/9: Wilsons' Cement, £1 19/; Taranaki Oil. 9/; New Zealand Breweries (deb.), £1 3/5. Auckland Building Society. Shareholders, the progress of your society is bound up with sound administration. You can assure that by electing a successful business man to the directorate. That man is Alexander Harris, M.P.—Ad. Have you seen the diamond engagement rings selling at half-price at David Silk's 3 Jewelleiy Stores?—(Ad.)

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