TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 40, 17 February 1933, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Arbitration Court sitting to-day. Tourist liner Carinthia arrived to-day. Payment of rates discussed by City Council. Big increase predicted in British naval strength. Creator of "Felix," Pat Sullivan, dies in Chicago. ' Wanganui and Canterbury J.C. races to-morrow. New observatory to be erected in Wellington. Postal official sentenced for theft of public funds. Australia's public debt now exceeds £1,000,000,000. King George congratulates Englishmen on Test victory. Argentine trade mission commences talks in England. Greyhound " totes" to be under one control in Britain. Technical College scheme for extension of agricultural work. Sensational attack on politicians by South African judge. Mollison reported in Brazil after being thought missing. Mr. S. M. Bruce makes plea in London for Dominion products. Further delay to Campbell's attempt on motor speed record. Four killed in battle between soldiers and strikers in Bucharest. School committees are not to have power to dismiss teachers. Rating of urban lands discussed by Otahuhu Borough Councl. City Council refused use of Town Hall for unemployed meeting,Nations planning to prohibit sale of arms to warring countries. Return of colonies said to be matter of life and death to Germany. British Government defeated in House of Lords on transport motion. Plan to use' portion of old railway station site for bus terminus. Ruthless measures of Hitler in Germany to suppress opposition. Torrential rains in Queensland continue, aggravating flood situation. De Valera objects' to the intention of the White Army to assist Irish police. Lloyd George makes startling attack on Government in House of Commons. Investors warned against certain undertakings offering high rate of interest. House of Representatives debated Sales Tax Bill all night, Labour " stonewalling." Compensation claim sent by English League Football Club to New Zealand Rugby League. Rumour of intention to prosecute Sir Charles Kingsford Smith for Sunday flying officially denied. Charges of fraud and conspiracy arising out of formation of big 'assur-ance-societies in Sydney. Three Australians, who played in fourth Test, drppped, but substitutes have played in- one or more previous games. Sales on 'Change to-day;— Bank of New Zealand, £2 4/; New Zealand Breweries, £1 II; Colonial Sugar, £53; New Zealand Paper Mills, £1 2/H; Gillespie's Beach, 1/6; Mount Lyell, £1; Inscribed Stock (1937, 5 \ per cent, February), ' £98 10/; Auckland Harbour Board, £98. Visitors, rent a car. Drive yourself; see New Zealand by this inexpensive method. Rental Cars, Shortland Street.—(Ad.)