TABLE TALK.
. Conclusion of Australian aviation in-. Record profits by Bank of New Zealand. , United States warship aground near Shanghai. Price of sugar in Auckland reduced another 10/ a ton. Auckland theatre manager met his creditors this morning. Minister of Education visited North Shore schools this morning. Two French airmen reached Calcutta after flying 6060 miles in 55 flying hours. Sir Joseph Ward entertained last evening at a big function arranged by United party. Prime Minister left for Rotorua this morning. He will give an address there this evening. The Minister of Education has addressed over 125,000 school children since he assumed Cabinet rank. About 20 chief petty officers from the Veronica and Laburnum leave for England this month by the steamer Remuera. Bound table conference between mineowners and workers regarded as promising development in N.S.W. coal crisis. Mr. J. H. Thomas is spoken of as Lord Privy Seal and Mr. Arthur Henderson as Foreign Secretary in - the MacDonald Cabinet. Russia does not expect much sympathetic support from the Labour Administration of Britain. Scheme to expend £14,000 at Takapuna to relieve unemployment approved at meeting of ratepayers. Pokeno-Paeroa railway route traversed to-day by Minister of Railways, who met several deputations on the way. Mr. E. A. Robinson, secretary-manager of the Christchurch Travellers and Warehousemen's Association, collapsed and died yesterday. Dean Inge considers Britain would be better under a competent dictator; says Philip Snowden will bleed the landed gentry and upper middle classes white. Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador at Washington, has announced his intention of stopping the importation of liquor for.the Embassy in view of the U.S.A. prohibition controversy. Sales on .'Change to-day were: Bank New Zealand, D Mortgage, £1 9/; New Zealand Breweries, £3 12/6; Electro Zinc £1 16/4, pref. £1 17/3; Farmers' Trading, 8/8; N.Z. Guaranteed Corporation 9/3. . Mrs. McDowell, 3, Strand Arcade, will hold a special sale of millinery. All models reduced 20 per cent. —(Ad.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 133, 7 June 1929, Page 1
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