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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 223, 20 September 1935, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Dairy marketing scheme. High water at .Auckland 12.34 p.m. Marama arrived from south to-day. Number of bills passed in Parliament. Monterey due to-morrow from Sydney. Fox toil and Asliburton races to-mor-row. Avondale races to-morrow and Monday. Sunset 5.45; sunrise to-morrow at 5.43. Wellington Rugby team arrived from south. Wheat is dearer at London and Liverpool. All Blacks beat Midland Counties by six points. Defects in present dairy marketing reviewed. Unusual amount of defence activity in Australia. Port Fairy sailed early last evening for London. Restriction scheme for taxi-cab licenses in Auckland. Gilt-edge stocks decline on London Stock Exchange. Seven group pools to be formed for dairy marketing. London butter market steady after slight relapse. H.M.S. Leith returned to-day from Islands cruise. Husband disputes death-bed will at Supreme Court. Dirt shipping trade with Japan to begin next May. Australian Rugby League team due at Auckland to-morrow. Petrol tax allocation discussed by Otahuhu Borough Council. Complaint at Geneva of conduct of powers holding mandates. Boom iVi local boat building causing shortage of suitable timber. Tanker Turbo due at Auckland tomorrow to discharge oil cargo. Soccer champion of champions match to-morrow at Blandford Park. Dominion Road shopkeeper, who took bets from a constable, fined 40/. City Council favours site at Point England for commercial airport. Hardening tendency at London wool sales, but Bradford tops now easier. Representative Rugby match between Auckland and Wellington to-morrow. Congestion on buses at peak hours discussed by Otahuhu Borough Council. Reported to City Council that milk for school children is available at Sd a gallon. Railway excursion trains from Wellington and the north due at Auckland to-morrow. Fine line of 2SG store bullocks from Motutapu realised average price of £6 IS/ at Pukekohe. Amazing feats accomplished by Indian and British forces against North-West Frontier tribesmen. Feverish preparations for zero hour in Italy; League peace terms said to have been rejected.

lI.M. ships Dunedin and Diomede returned from exercises in Hauraki Gulf early this afternoon. Canterbury potato merchants reply to Auckland complaint regarding bad condition of shipments. Reported visit of German Minister of Economics to London to raise loan said to be waste of time. Australian Rugby League team open New Zealand tour to-morrow with match against Auckland. City Council proposes to raise loan of £200,000 for housing by special order without poll of ratepayers. Sustenance man who bought stolen bicycle parts from a boy of 15, sentenced to six months on receiving charge. City Council to acquire at cost of £35.000 strip of land through old post office site to link Shortland Street with Fort Street. Protest against Government's failure to restore salary cuts in full by Auckland branch of Post and Telegraph Employees' Association. Proprietors of El Rey Country Club charged with keeping premises as a place of resort for the consumption of liquor in a no-license district.

Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—Bank of New Zealand, £2 10/9 (2); Hill and Plummer, 18/; Wilsons Cement, £2 0/3; Gillespie's Beach, 1/1 (2); Golden Dawn, 2/10; Mataki, 1/10 A; Farmers' Co-op., £2 paid, £1 7/; Renown Collieries (pref.), 2/9; Auckland Gas (con.), 19/3; Dunlop, 14/5; Wilsons Cement, £2; Reserve Bank, £6 9/; Mount Eden, April 1, 1949-54, £105. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/. —E. Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Davies), opp. Woolworths.—Ad.