TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 2, 3 January 1934, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Southland races to-day. Heavy traffic on railways. Party of girl guides left for camp to-day. - General resumption of business in city to-day. Mayor of New York initiates a drive on crime. $'.' Increase of totalisator betting over holidays. New Secretary to U.S. Treasury appointed. New Rumanian Premier received death warning. Wool prices exceptionally firm at Sydney sales. French seaplane record for non-stop flight to Africa. Wanganella due from Sydney on Friday morning. Season's first mako shark caught off Red Mercury Island. Auckland * yacht lost her mast when leaving Whangarei. Mussolin? says League of Nations "must refcgrm or die." Twenty people injured in English train wreck during fog. English trade unions propose campaign for higher wages. Hindenburg says German people wish to live *in harmony with all nations. Irish Free State opinion divided on .value of events during past year. Snow prevented further flight by Byrd to find way through icepack. First official trans-Tasman air mail to be carried by the Faith in Australia. China calls on rowers to withdraw nationals from danger zone in Fukien. Report on growth of British youth since war says examinations are overdone. Dominion woman tennis champion beaten to-day by Miss Marjorie Macfarlane (Auckland). Whangarei fisherman spent four days drifting in disabled launch, with only dry bread and water to live on. Auckland' beat ptago in Plunket Shield cricket by 169 runs, and Wellington beat Canterbury by 115 runs. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/. —Dentist Davies, opp. Woolworth's. — (Ad.)