TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 234, 3 October 1934, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Duncdin J.C. races to-morrow. Humane Society makes awards for bravery. Late" Sir Jolin Koberts left estate of £435.000. Prisoner recaptured after escape from Waikeria. Steamer Gabriella ran aground at Grey mouth. Work started on extension of Arapuni power plant. Six deaths in air liner crash in English Channel. Public bequests by former Mount Roskill resident. Shipping hold up in Wellington by rough weather. Guard killed in railway smash at Newmarket Station. Cable steamer Recorder to sail to-mor-row for Bass Strait. Revolver shots at rowdy political meeting at Toulouse. British Labour parly " will never ennction resort to war." Understood "Smithy" will withdraw from Centenary air race. Lowest percentage of unemployed in Australia since May, 1930. Accumulated increase in old-age pensions to be paid on Monday. Decision by Auckland Cricket Association to open 6eason on October 20. Owner of lorry held not to be liable for mishap to child who fell off runningboard. Returned members of British Empire; Games team welcomed .by Auckland sportsmen. Western Suburbs League football team played fourth match of tour this afternoon at Carlaw Park. 32,000,000 acres of New. South Wales infested with grasshoppers; menace reaches serious dimensions in Queeneland. Reported at meeting of Auckland Metropolitan Relief Committee that there was no decline in applications for help. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—National Timber, 14/3: Mahakipawa, 10* d; Waitahu, 2/25; Stock, 4 per cent, 1955, £113; Amalgamated Brick, 7 J per' cent (Auckland), £104 10/; Auckland Gas, £1 6/7; Hud-dart-Parker, £1 10/; Colonial Sugar, £(58: Sanford (pref.), 11/3; Goldfields Dredge lljd; Skippers (2), 7d; Stock, 19-16. -1 per cent £109 5/, 1949, 4 per cent, £111 7/C. Unlisted: Woolworths (Svdney), £3 13/. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/.—Dentist Davies, opp. Wool worths.— (Ad.)