TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 200, 24 August 1928, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Hawke's Bay Hunt Club races at Hastings to-morrow. Record dairy season anticipated in the Auckland province. The second night of the XX amateur boxing championships at the Town Hall ,to-night. Two fishermen drowned yesterday when their launch capsized in a gale off Plimmerton. Third League Test match between England and New Zealand at Christchurch to-morrow. Nurse at mental home in Waitati, Otago, found murdered. Man found with his throat cut. It. Clayton, an elderly man, missed from steamer Claymore, en route to Whangarei last night. English League team's manager protests against reports of roi\gh play in Test match in Dunedin. The Northern Industrial District contains 100 unions of employees engaging 26,079 registered workers. The Auckland competitions festival, which had a successful opening yesterday, is being continued to-day. "I want my children to see in motion pictures a little British sentiment," declared the Prime Minister yesterday. Sales on 'Change to-day: Auckland Gas, £1 3/; National Insurance, 16/6, and Huddart Parker Steam (ord.), £2 9/6. The Salvation Army's new congress hall in Grey Avenue will be opened tomorrow afternoon by the GovernorGeneral. The All Blacks play the last game but one of their South African tour to-mor-row, when they meet a Western Province team at Capetown. A sneak thief has been operating in the Mount Eden district, stealing small sums of money from houses in the early part of the evening. The N.Z. Boxing Association has inaugurated a fund for the insurance of amateur contestants, two per cent to be taken from the gross receipts of tournaments for this purpose. The Waratahs open their New Zealand tour to-morrow with a match against Auckland at Eden Park. The Hikurangi and Mount Roskill primary school teams will play the first curtain-raiser at 12.30. Military, naval and air forces will combine in a sham battle at Orewa Beach next February. The manoeuvres will be on a larger scale than any yet planned in New Zealand. Hearing of a claim for £4403 at the Supreme Court to-day against the Minister of Public Works in compensation for land taken at Panmure in connection with the transmission of Arapuni power to Auckland.