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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 204, 30 August 1933, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Citv loans poll to-day. ". Drive " to-day by Girl Guides. Notorious Balkans bandit shot dead. British flying, boats proceeding to Finland. • , Australian warships due at AucKl&ntt to-morrow. . . , Japanese training ehip visited by public to-day. Further lively meeting of Opdtiki Borough Council. Higher wool prices fully maintained at Sydney, sales. American embargo raised on export of newly-mined gold. Welcome rains in several districts in New South Wales. • Rangitata arrived this morning with passengers from England. London bullion broker pays a man £9000 for GOOO sovereigns. Contract to be let almost immediately for new Dunedin post office. Farm hand, had narrow escape from burning house at Stratford. Northcote Borough Council to take steps to recover rate arrears. Frenchman's long - distance flight acknowledged at 5057 miles. Police chase after two men near Symonds Street last evening. Committee of inquiry seeks removal of honey marketing restrictions. Unemployment Board to supply blankete to relief, workers in camps. , Leading banker declares that bottom of depression hae been reached. Mount Albert eeheme ■ to expend £40.000 for relief of unemployment. Discovery in Mount Eden house of elderly couple, both seriously injured. Norwegian steamer purchased for Australia-New Zealand cargo service. Candour marked address of Independent Labour candidate for Lyttelton seat. Offer by Auckland Yacht and Motor Boat Association to return Sanders Cup.. ' Mount Eoskill Road Board to arrange additional work for outside permanent I staff. Italian tribunal decides in favour of ex-King Alfonso in confiscation claim by Spain. "Smithy" to be accompanied by his wife on next Tasman flight to New Zealand. Eeduced rates secured in new con-, tracts for carrying of produce to Britain. British speedboat hope in perfect order for world trophy race in U.S.A. on Saturday. . . Fire insurance companies decide to form their own crime investigation organisation. Japanese naval spokesman protests against " malicious propaganda " regarding Japan's • naval intentions. ■ Secret talks between British and American bankers and President Roosevelt on exchange stabilisation. Soviet asks £100 for permission for Russian child to leave Ruesia. to be reunited with parents in New Zealand. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were: —Tooth's Brewery, £1 18/3; Consolidated Gold, 17/; King- Solomon, 2/6 and 2/5; Mataki, 2/ and 1/10; Waihi, £15/9; Mount Lyell, £1 1/8; Bonds, 4 per cent (1955), £100 5/: N.S.W. Bank, £32 G/; Union BaA:, £0 4/6; Staples, £1 5/74 and £1 6/3; N.Z. Newspapers, £1 6/6; Big River, I/S. Unlisted: Farmers? Freezing, 16/6.