TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 72, 25 March 1936, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water at Auckland, 9.24 P-m-Sunset, 6.27; sunrise to-morrow, 6.28. Mona Leydon another swimming Austrian Socialists sentenced for high treason. Wanganella liad exceptionally fine run from Sydney. Germany refuses to witlidraw troops from Khineland. Parliament opened to-day by Upper House Commission. Census taken throughout New Zealand last evening. V. P. Boot beats New Zealand halfmile running record. K. Munro wins three Papatoetoe athletic championships. Death of third victim of motor accident near Whatawhata. Storms in New South Wales moderated slightly yesterday. Controversy continues over Australian bank rate increases. Young motor cyclist injured in accident near Pukekohe. Durham came into port from Motuihi powder ground this afternoon. Major Douglas and Alberta social credit Premier sever relations. "Smithy's" flying trophies loaned to nation by widow for 20 years. Primary schools' swimming carnival to-day and to-morrow night. Fall of 2/ per 10010 in the price of beef at the Westfteld sale to-day. No reprieve granted white man for murder of natives in New Guinea. Ten acres to be acquired for secondary school site in One Tree Hill area. Case of importance to milk vendors and customers in Police Court to-day. Loss of £120 on M.C.C.-Auckland match, and £384 profit on Test here. Improved working conditions sought by members of Auckland Fire Brigade. First broadcast of New Zealand Parliamentary proceedings this afternoon. Northcote Borough Council granted permission for pictures on Good Friday. Difficulty experienced in berthing Wanganelia from Sydney this morning. Exceptionally large yarding of beef at the Westfield fat stock sale to-day. Hospital needs discussed at meeting of Auckland Hospital Board yesterday. Two deputations to Mount Koskill Road Board in connection with neglected roads. German envoy returns to London with counter proposals to Locarno Powers. Hospital Board to purchase site on Bombay Hills for tuberculosis sanatorium. Arrears of rates on dwellings mortgaged to State discussed -by Papatoetoe Town Board. Yacht Ngataki spoken by Wanganella last evening near Cape Brett, bound for Norfolk Island. New South Wales Labour faction quarrel over radio station control temporarily settled. Chief officer of ship recently in Auckland says cargo pilfering is rampant in New Zealand. Close on 30,000 bales of wool sold at Town Hall concert chamber to-day, mostly at late rates. No tax reduction in Australia till cost of bringing defences up to date is known, says Mr. Lyons. . ' Northcote Borough Council to meet Hospital Board to discuss hospital facilities on North Shore. Advocate of international thought exchange as means of promoting peace arrived by Wanganella.' this morning. Mount Koskill Road Board received authority to concrete , Mount AlbertRoval Oak section of at cost of * £2992. Fast selling at Auckland wool sale, one auctioneer averaging 739 bales an hour, the value of the wool sold being £1746 per minute. Two seamen from Port Hunter, described as "half-drunken, cowardly bullies," fined £5 for assaulting a seaman boy from 11.M.5. Philomel. Driver of a motor van and rider of a motor cycle each fined £5 on intoxication charge, one losing his license for six months and the other for three. Inter-change of interesting information with Australia has been arranged by Dr. E. Marsden, of the Department of- Scientific ; and Industrial Research. Reference to Fairbridge farm school system* made by London secretary of Child Emigration Society, who arrived in Auckland by the Wanganella this morning. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—Consolidated Brick, 10/; Bonds, 1952-55, 4 p.e., £103 17/6; Auckland Harbour Board, 9/7/1944, £105; Auckland Gas, 1/7/1942, 6 p.c., £108; Gisborno Shcepfarmers, 31/8/1941, 6.i p.c., £100; E.S.A. Bank, £6 2/6; Bank of New Zealand, £2 5/3; Union Bank, £9 14/6; National Insurance, IS/ (2); Northern Steam. 6/9; Farmers' Trading, 9/6; Wilsons Cement,. £1 19/9, £2; Farmers' Auctioneering, A pref., £1 2/9; Bank of New South Wales, £34 5/; Mount Lyell, £1 4/; Auckland Transport Board, 1/4/1944-49. £105 10/. Unlisted: Cromwells, £1 17/6; John Fuller, 1949, p.c., £S6.

Australasia's arreatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/. —E Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Davies), opp. Woolworths.—Ad.