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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 185, 7 August 1935, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Sunset to-day at 5.9 p.m. Rough seas on the west coast. Manukau bar still unworkable. High water at Auckland 12.4 p.m. Snow follows rain at National Park. Minister of Employment returned south. Large majority for strike in Waihi ballot. French war sloop due to sail this evening. Mariposa due on Friday from Los Angeles. School teachers' appointments announced. Two camera club wins scored by Auckland. Hospital Board levy for Ellerslie district reduced. Italy reported to have 1,000,000 men under arms. Yacht Ngataki to sail to-morrow for Pacific Islands. Market for New Zealand cheese in London is firm. Wanganella nearly a day late in reaching Sydney. New steamer Triaster due from Nauru to-morrow. Prime Minister due at Auckland on Friday, August 16. Deadlock over Fine Arts Block proposal in Auckland. Waikato farmer smothered under collapsed hay stack. Farmers pay high prices for horses at Feilding sale, up to £56. Britons not prevented from volunteering for Abyssinian Army. Harbour Board .accepts tender of German firm for wire rope. Eighty-one motorists fined 10/ each for driving without a license. Townsend, Auckland coach, scores unbeaten century for IJerby. Commander of French sloop appreciative of Auckland's hospitality. Five people killed in Hindu-Mohan: - medan rioting in Bihar district. Yorkshire soundly trounces Lancashire, English, cricket champions. Man from Te Puke struck by motor car in city last evening and injured. Civic reception to Commonwealth Prime Minister at noon on Friday. Question of school teachers' special leave discussed by Education Board. Financial requirements of Auckland Engineering School to be submitted to Cabinet. One of the youths lost in ranges near Palmerston North found dead from exposure. Employers have offered to institute fresh negotiations in dispute with shipwrights. Request for improved conditions for university staffs made to Minister of Education. Harbour Board decided to take no action in regard to Stanley Bay Wharf improvements. Seething unrest in France on account of Government's stringent economv measures continues. Arbor Day to-day. Twenty-two trees planted on waterfront reclamation, beyond Point Resolution. Claim for £891, alleged to have been death-bed gift of aged man, made by married woman at Supreme Court to-day. Two suspects arrested on charge of conspiring to defraud Post Office Savings Bank of £1850 were remanded at Auckland Police Court to-day on bail of £2000 each. Sales on the Stock Exchange to-dav were: Guarantee Corporation, 5/9"; Renown Collieries, 10/6; Consolidated Brick, 11/6; Stock, 3 J per cent, 38-52, £108 15/; Stock, 4 per cent, 37-40, £101 15/; Auckland Transport Board, 41 per cent, 1937, £101 10/; Bank of Australasia, £11 7/3; Bank of New Zealand (D Mortgage), £1 13/3; Union Bank of Australia, £9 5/; Mortgage Corporation, 6/10; Renown Collieries (pref.), 2/9; New Zealand Breweries, £2 13/; Broken Hill Proprietary, £3 8/6; Farmers' Trading Co., 7/2. Unlisted: Trotting Club, Ci per cent, 1944, £103; Woolworths (Syd.), £5 15/; Woolworths (Syd. ord.) £5 17/. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/.— E. Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Davies), opp Woolworths. Aα.