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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 22, 27 January 1936, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

) I "i Daring hold-up raid in Melbourne. ) I Horse electrocuted at Morrinsville. ~ High water at Auckland 10.3 p.m. 5 First race for Sanders Cup to-morrow. ' House at Swanson destroyed by fire, j Auckland victorious in Cornwall Cup. Sunset 7.38; sunrise to-morrow 5.30 ■ a,m - Auckland tennis championships -well advanced. New Zealand swimming carnival at l - Hamilton. £ O'Reilly in deadly form against j Transvaal. Wellington Cup meeting ended. Tote increase £5317. - Impressive ceremonials at Australian f national games. y Four ships loading at Auckland for D United Kingdom. >' % :r Te Aute Hotel, Hastings, totally ;• destroyed by fire. 5' Baffling features in gruesome murder case near London. it Six American army airmen killed in ~ plane crash at Honolulu. P, New Harbour Board tug, Wm. C. £ Daldy, due at Auckland. D Auckland crew won Cornwell Cup in g tenth race on Saturday. i- Good dividends at Takapuna Jockey :t Club meeting on Saturday. - Griffiths injured when All Blacks h beat Vancouver by 32 points. t. Two boys injured when water tank - collapsed at Oratia yesterday. [' Two men had long swim for shore "t when yacht capsized off Surfdale. C New Zealand University Rugby team i- easily won opening game In Japan. J Four Southern boats for Sanders Cup t. exercising crews on harbour yesterday. C Hotel licensee, barman and another rt man fined for breaches of the Licensing I' Act. D Friday and Saturday aggregate total Z of mourners in Westminster Hall exceed - 250,000.A Services of mourning for late King held at representative Auckland C churches. C Nawi Kira, Maori girl swimmer, i: twice breaks New Zealand record at - Hamilton. 7 V Seven ships on. their way from Antt. w?rp with cargoes of basic slag lor C Auckland. •„e Serious injuries to both eyes received t by cricketer at Wliangarei through - being struck by ball. [ e Dissatisfied co-operative scheme worki- icrs at Mangere to resume work under protest for a month. }• Labourer who aggravated his offence 5 by commiting perjury sentenced to six ; months for theft of a cheque. i- Only 18 0 grade teachers' position? " affected under Government's new school - scheme for five-year-old children. Wholesale price of eggs in Auckland - raised another twopence, making a total £ rise of fivepence for past week. E Sustenance man who celebrated the birlh of his second child fined for s drunkennesfjL and theft at Police Court. q Need for maintaining high standard - of broadcast music stressed by director of Ccnservatorium of Music, N.S.W. Heaviest blow yet received administered to President Roosevelt by ConP gress overriding veterans' bonus veto. - Conservatorium of music for New a " Zealand desirable but scarcely warranted, according to eminent Australian C musician. Investigations by police disclosed that n circumstantial evidence of a drowning f tragedy on Parnell waterfront was only e a practical joke. 3 Workers' representative assured Man- •, gere strikers that within a month all t- Public Works wages would be based on U minimum of 14/8 per day. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were: —Dominion Breweries, 19/; > Electro. Zinc, £1 10/; Farmers' Trading - (3/ paid), 2/7s; Stock, four per cent, - 1937-40, £100 10/; National Bank of New Zealand, £3 11/3; National Bank of 1 Australasia (cont.), £7 4/; Bank of New r Zealand, £2 7/6; South British Insura ance, £4 10./ (2); Mortgage Co-op., 4/8; Kauri Timber, £1 3/8; Dominion Fer--2; tiliser, £1 4/; Farmers' Trading, 8/2; t* Wolworths (N.Z.), (pref.) £1 18/6; D Martha, £1 0/9; Waihi Invest., 14/9; 9 Auckland Harbour Board, 1952, £105. 7 Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set a of teeth for £2 10/. —E. Davies, Ltd. " (Dentist Davies), opp. Woolworths.—Ad. 6 . A