TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 164, 13 July 1928, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Commercial travellers big drive tomorrow. Two minor burglaries in city last evening. Aorangi due from Vancouver on Sunday afternoon. Upward tendency for X.Z. products on London market. Arbitration Courts sits in Auckland on Monday, July 23. Ratepayers' Association formed in Grafton district. Proposal to establish, municipal golf links at Chris tchurch. Minister of Lands (Hon. A. D. McLeod) returned to Wellington. Minister of Lands visited Orakei Garden Suburb yesterday. Conference of Agricultural Society delegates held this morning. Stated that Parliament will not alter present system of hospital levies. Film quota legislation expected to be introduced in Parliament next week. Interesting tests made of aeroplane from which Belgian millionaire disappeared. Fire Underwriters' Association has reduced fire insurance premiums at Hamilton. Weather conditions not yet favourable for aeroplane flight from Australia to New Zealand. Revolt threatened at Malta owing to hold-up of financial bill to provide work for unemployed. Decision to wage a more vigorous war on hawks made by Auckland Acclimatisation Society. Proposal by Auckland Acclimatisation Society to import Virginian quail from Norfolk Island. Minister of Air (Sir Samuel Hove) states that Anglo-Indian air service will commence in 1929. New health district to be created, area being Poverty Bay, Bay of Plenty and East Coast districts. Sydney detectives claim to have clue in connection with murder of two elderly women at Marrickville. Whaling steamer C. A. Larsen, damaged by striking rock at Stewart Island, has safely reached Liverpool. Sales on "Change to-dav:—N.Z. Bank, £2 19/6; British Tobacco,*£2 3/; Checker Taxi, 8/; and N.Z. Brewerie?, £2 5/3. Special meeting of Hospital Board held to-day to appoint an engineer. Engineer recently appointed has withdrawn. Lack of parental control and pernicious literature described as present day evils by Archbishop Averill in address last evening. Two more members of the crew of the missing airship Italia saved. Body of a companion, who had been dead for a months, recovered. Survivors stated that they had had no food for thirteen days. Week-end specials. Miss Dixon's novelty sample coats, half-price; also millinery, 9/11.-166, Queen Street. (Ad.)