TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 138, 12 June 1936, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water at Auckland, 12.5 p.m. Sunset 4.41; sunrise to-morrow 7 a.m. Mariposa arrived from Los Angeles to-day. Improvement on London Stock Exchange. Dairy cattle bring up to £10 15/ at Pukekohe. Bradford tops market sliows slight improvement. Filial days of Akarana ladies' open golf tourney. Appeal tribunal of three in milk industry suggested. Late prices hold on quiet London butter market. Profit of £98,000 made by Reserve Bank last year. Hawke's Bay races and Ashburton trots to-morrow. Emperor says Abyssinians are rising against oppressors. Sanctions policy condemned by Mr. Neville Chamberlain. Mariposa to sail for Sydney and Melbourne at 8 p.m. House of Representatives adjourned for five weeks' recess. Defence of Eric Mareo continued in Supreme Court to-day. Annual report of the Reserve Bank presented in Parliament. Mayor's Fund for crippled children to be reopened until August 1. Nelson Street wharf being demolished and market landing extended. Dramatic scene in House of Commons as Mr. J. H. Thomas resigns. Importance of work of Navy League stressed at annual meeting last night. Wider powers for Milk Council urged by Executive Commission of Agriculture. Indians beaten by second-class county after "declaring" with only three wickets down. Possibility of German airship service being established between Australia and New Zealand. Present system of milk supply praised in Agricultural Commission's report released to-day. Mr. Jordan, M.P. for Manukau, future High Commissioner, farewelled by party colleagues. Urgent necessity for stronger British Navy emphasised by Professor Algie in Navy League address. Wellington mother and her four children who came by road to Auckland,

begin return journey to-day. Government legislation. may harm business of trading banks, says chairman of Bank of New Zealand. Motor cyclist found dead on road at Oakura, near New Plymouth, with semiconscious companion beside him. Bulk of the reserve of the New Zealand Reserve Bank is revenue producing, says Mr. Nash, Minister of Finance. Owner of pet morepork, named after well-known wrestler, before Poliea- Court for being in possession of "a protected animal." Skipper of a fishing boat who admitted j that he deliberately entered a prohibited area for fishing fined £10, and his boat has been confiscated. Auckland business man who returned to-day from England considers that New Zealand's primary products should be better advertised in Britain. Unusual charge under the "antisweating" provisions of the Factories Act brought against a firm of city clothing manufacturers to-day. Trading banks strong enough to- be able to extend lending operations in New Zealand, says chairman of Bank of New Zealand, reviewing trading of Dominion for year. Statement that Government legislation, owing to increase in wages and shorter hours, may result in higher milk prices made to-day at Milk Council meeting. Fact that tlie Government has benefited from Bank of New Zealand as well as bank from Government aid in 'nineties stressed by chairman of bank at annual meeting.

Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were: Commercial Bank (2), 19/2; Bank of New Zealand (cum div.), £2 5/; Bank of New Zealand (D. Mortgage, ex-div.), £1 8/9; Guarantee Corporation, 5/5; P. and O. Deferred Stock, £1 5/9; Australian Glass (5), £4 13/9; Broken Hill, £3 11/9; Bycroft (cum bonus), £2 11/; Consolidated Brick, 10/6; Electro Zinc (pref.), £2, £2 0/3; Milne and Choyce, 16/; Woolworths (New Zealand), £9; Golconda Holdings, 9d; Mt. Lye 11, £1 4/5; Stock, 4 per cent, 1952-55, £106; Dominion Breweries, £1 5/6, £1 5/; Electro Zinc, £1 18/; G« J. Coles, £3 19/10J; Hume Pipe (Australia), £1* 0/3; New Zealand Newspapers, £2 1/9; Wilsons Cement, £2 5/; Skippers, 3fd; Mount Morgan, 15/2, 15/3; Upper Watut, 7/2; Waimumu Sluicing,' 6Ad; Stock, 4 per cent, 1946-49, £104 2/o". Unlisted: Selfridgcs (new), (4), £1 5/3. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/. —E. Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Davies), opp. Wool worth's!— Ad.