TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 281, 27 November 1931, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Forbury Park trots .to-morrow. Wool sales to-morrow at Town Hail. More political addresses this evening. New water supply available at Motuihi Island. Gift of children's playground at Newton; Races at Takapuna and Feilding tomorrow. Sonoma arrived to-day from Los Angeles. Viscount Snowden takes seat in House of Lords. Gandhi wants control of army and finance in-India. Gifts of land by two citizens to round oif street corners. Tom Mix critically ill after appendicitis operation. New traffic route to be made in Auckland Domain. Defeat of Scullin Government wel-« corned in Australia. Robber of till caught after girl holds on to his coat tails. City Council approved of yacht club site at Bastion Point; Malolo due at Auckland on Sunday, with American tourists. Date of Australian general elections fixed for December 19.

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Japanese military attaches justify action taken : in Manchuria.

Trades union secretary apologises to Court for using word . "scab." League of Nations Council continues efforts for peace in Manchuria. Bert Hinkler starts on first west-fc--east flight' across South Atlantic. Man sent to gaol for three months for- soliciting alms at Hamilton. American community celebrated Thanksgiving Day in Wellington. Complaint by business firms of use of Commerce Street for bus terminal. Approved picture programmes to be screened in city on Christmas evening. U.S.S.' ship Koranui declared "black" by militant seamen in New South Wales. Vehicular traffic to be barred for period in Queen Street on election night. Two men committed for trial in Wellington on charge of conspiring to defraud. Proposal to form Black Shirt Brigade for protection of candidates in Christchurch. Smith found not guilty on ground of insanity on charge of murdering his wife at Hamilton. ' Mr. Stanley Bruce, former Australian Prime Minister, to contest Federal elections from London. Ammunition in Mukden arsenal sufficient to equip Chinese army of 300,000 for week's fighting. Influence being brought to bear by holders of Irish sweep tickets on race horse owners not to scratch their nominations. First Australian and New Zealand air mail 'plane totally wrecked in crash in Malay States; mail to be taken to England by air, rail and steamer. Sales on to-day were:— Standard Insurance, :£2 3/6; Mount Eden Borough Council, 5| (19G4), £89; Commercial Bank of Australia, 16/8. Buy your race frock, at Miss Dixon's Birthday: Week; .10 per cent off millinery and gowns.—l 66, Queen St. (Ad.)