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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 264, 7 November 1935, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

■ ■ — Whangarei races. Rough seas on west coast. Kose show at Town Hall to-day. High water at Auckland 3.46 p.in. Sunset 1i.59; sunrise to-morrow 5.10. More political addresses this evening. Child died at Auckland Hospital from scalds. Quiet tone of New Zealand butter market. Farm in Gisborne district sold for £100,000. Waikatq show to open to-morrow at Hamilton. New records for merino wool at Australian sales. Large yarding of pigs at Westfield sales yesterday. Wanganella scheduled to sail for Sydney to-morrow. Increased building activity in One Tree Hill borough. Reconstruction proposal for Auckland Rugby competition. Eight passengers injured by runaway tram in Sydney suburb. New Zealand butter drops further on Loudon market; now 99/. Aorangi scheduled to sail from Sydney to-day for Auckland. Nepia gives reasons for accepting League contract in London. Registration of cycles advocated by One Tree Hill Borough Council. Action by Waller against CathcartJones for alleged libel withdrawn. Pnkekohe potato growers start season well; heavy crops and good prices. Enthusiastic crowds cheer Duke of Gloucester and his bride in London. "Smithy" reaches Athens in first hop from England on flight to Australia. Two brothers for theft of bicycle today sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Inquiry to be held at Wellington in connection with mishap to steamer Waipahi. Chinese tubercular patient held to b? menace to community may be sent backto China. Auckland Commercial Travellers' Association raises £500 for crippled children's fund. Gross misrepresentation by Mr. W, Grounds concerning Dairy Board alleged by Mr. Coates. School teacher sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment for signing another's name to a telegram. Motor ship Port Chalmers due at Auckland at week-end from south to complete loading. Ship's steward before Court on 1G charges of breaking and entering and theft from city dwellings. Gisborne farmers are receiving from 9d to 91d per lb for lambs dispatched for London Christmas trade. Judgment for defendants in libel action brought by waterside worker against editor and proprietors of "Why?'" Birkenhead Borough Council informed that Naval Board docs not contemplate acquisition of further areas at Kauri Domain. Committee set up by Chamber of Commerce to assist in raising £17,000 required to endow crippled children's home at Takapuna. Sales on the Stock Exchange to-dav were:—Anthony Hordern, 19/; Mataki. 2/3; Skippers, 2Jd; Waihi Investment. 17/3; Franklin Power Board, 4} per cent. 2/8/63, £107 10/; South British, £4 10/; Staples, £1 13/; Bycroft, £2 12/G; Paper Mills, £1 8/6; Kauri, £1 3/6; New Zealand Insurance, £3 3/3; Placer, £5 1/; Stock, 4 per cent, 37/40, £101 15/, 43/46, £104 15/. Last ten days of the Melba Fur Company's sale. Furs, dresses, fur coats. Receiver's final instruction to clear the lot and give the public the benefit. 288. Queen Street.—(Ad.) Fur is the final word in your spring ensemble. You will find the best at Empire Furriers, opp. Town Hall.—(Ad.)