TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 162, 11 July 1928, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Mr. T. K. Sidey, M.P., has decided to retire. Rivers flooded in Upper Thames V#l* ley districts. Auckland Winter Show opened this afternoon. Continuation of Address-in-Keply debate in Parliament. Dental clinic to be opened in connection with Henderson schools. Ex-secretary of a Rotorua building society admitted theft of £805. Mr. W. A. lorns has been elected chairman of the Dairy Produce Board. Electrical storm which followed heat wave caused great damage in Canada. Local bill to be prepared to provida financial support fcr Auckland Museum. Small fishing launch, which was making trip from Whangaroa, reported missing. Steamer Ulimaroa, which arrived this morning, had a very rough trip from Sydney. Search of stokehold of Home steamer Arawa revealed large quantity of pillaged silk goods. Wanganui deputation visited Wellington to urge continuance of Wanganui River steamer service. Delay in brigade reaching a fire subject of comment at meeting of Mount Roskill sload Board. Spirited debate at meeting of Auckland Presbytery on peace manifesto submitted to General Assembly. American wireless broadcast picked up at G-isborne states that silence from missing airship Italia is not regarded as ominous. Mr. T. L. C. Scrivener, of London, has been appointed lecturer on soil and inorganic chemistry at Massey Agricultural College. Suggestion made that missing Belgian financier, Captain Lowenstein, escaped from aeroplane by parachute and was picked up by a fishing boat. London wool sales have opened with keen competition by Continental and Yorkshire operators, with late values generally well maintained. Fifty-five out of 58 members of the Dunedin Manufacturers' Association, who answered a questionaire, favour the re-enactment of the summer time law. The London dairy produce market is still favourable to New Zealand producers and private cables advise that there is more doing in butter at 178/ per cwt, with cheese nominally up to 110/. Sales on 'Change to-day: Electrolytic Zinc (ord.), £1 11/3; Sanford, Ltd. (pref.), £1 0/3; Gisborne Loan, 5| per cent, £96 10/; South British Insurance, £3; Auckland Gas (cont.), 17/3; and Wilsons Cement, £1 18/.

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