TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 80, 5 April 1933, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Pahiatua races to-day. Whangarei races to-morrow. 'Varsity faculty sports this afternoon. Warsliip Diomede returned from South. Sitting of Assessment Court continued to-day. Several records at 'Varsity swimming carnival. Increase on duty on imported butter into Ireland. British 'planes succeed in flight over Mount Everest. Ranji's successor stated to he also a noted cricketer. Labour candidate announced for Auckland Mayoralty'; Wellington City finances show surplus of £9000. Amazing new traffic control device tried out in London. Disaster to American airship Akron, feared loss of 73 lives. Supplementary rolls for municipal elections closed to-day. English railway company inaugurating air services at Home. Two casualties in aircraft searching for missing airship Akron. Plans well advanced for Auckland home for elderly blind people. Likelihood of Empire Marketing Board going out of business. The ketch Lily, which went ashore in Bluff Harbour, is a total loss. Fate of British officers captured by Chinese pirates still a mystery. Auckland unemployed air grievances before Minister of 'Employment. Official boycott of Jews in Germany stopped; anti-Semitism continues. Fullest-powers given for investigation into affairs of. bankers in America. Milk board proposed for control' of milk and cream in metropolitan area: Six children were injured in a collision between a bus and a lorry at Pukekohe. Dominion tour to be made by Mr. H. E. Holland, Leader of the Labour party. Heavy penalties proposed in. America for publication of State Department secrets. Tasmanian growers strongly resentful at proposal to remove potato embargo. Decision by Takapuna Borough Council to pay small increased price for purified water. Harbour Board to support City Council's new method of marking ballot papers with a cross. Roosevelt policy of tariff reduction and mortgage relief for farmers and others being pushed. Election of officers of Auckland branch of New Zealand Accountants and Auditors' Association. Labour "ticket" to be run in connection with Harbour Board, Hospital Board and City Council elections. Leaking benzine fumes gave grave element of danger to voyage of launch Frangipani from . Auckland to Tahiti. First of series of Salvation Army gatherings to-morrow to mark commencement of work in Auckland 50 years ago. Rumoured in Wellington that Government's liability to banks on account of high exchange had reached 1£ millions by March 31. Suggestion in Cliristchurch that Minister of Employment should arrange the purchase of wheat and meat for relief purposes during coming winter. Sales on 'Change to-day were: Commercial Bank, 14/1; Farmers' Fertiliser, 16/ (3) ; Mount Lyell, 18/9; Bank of New Zealand, £2 4/8, £2 4/9; Grand Junction, 3/10.