TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 142, 17 June 1936, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Wanganella from Sydney. Teachers' appointments announced. High water at Auckland, 4.59 p.m. Sunset, 4.41; sunrise to-morrow, 7.2. Judge Callan sums up in Mareo trial. Sudden floods in Bay of Plenty district. Scarcity of teachers for backblocks schools. English County cricket champions beaten. Seven deaths in air liner crash in Norway. Octopus caught in pool at St. Holier s. Overcrowding continues at Auckland Hospital. Australian Soccer team accorded civic reception. Hospital Board discussion on staffing at hospital. Coal and steel strikes become general in Belgium. Judgment for plaintiff in Henderson farming claim. London butter market slipping; New Zealand now 100/. Education Board considers relieving teachers too well paid. Germany launching new bonus schema to increase birth rate. Arsenal Soccer team mentor to train British Davis Cup team. Question of subsidised labour before Mount Koskill Road Board. Harbour bridge proposal again before Northcote Borough Council. Fifty-nine deaths in explosion in Estonian munitions factory. L. F. Townsend scores century when Derbyshire defeat Yorkshire. Two prisoners recaptured after escaping from Hautu prison camp. Jim Ferrier holes in one, 179 yards, at Royal Liverpool golf course. British peer refers to Secretary for War as "disgraceful scaremonger." H.M.S. Wellington and Leitli sailed this morning on their Pacific cruise. Australia offers inducement to Japan to reopen trade treaty negotiations. Students' procession in aid of crippled children's fund to be held to-morrow. Hospital Board to take steps to purchase sanatorium site at Ramarama. Ruahine arrived this afternoon, from Wellington, with cargo from London. South Africa's population increases over two and a half million since 1921. Aorangi leaves Sydney to-morrow for Auckland and is due on Monday morning. Discussion by Papatoetoe Town Board on amalgamation with adjacent district. Resolution by all parties for ending sanctions placed before French Government. Suggested amalgamation between Mount Wellington and Panmure districts. Apparent win for Wellington in first round of Bledisloe telegraphic chess match. Annual meeting of Auckland School Committees' Association to be held this evening. Southbound Limited express delayed by slips. New Zealand tourist says he found Europe dreading war while regarding it inevitable. Chairman of Papatoetoe Town Board states that there is no water shortage in district. Estate valued at £5000 bequeathed to Whangarei High School to establish scholarships. Maurice Turnbull, Welsh Rugby international, makes a' century ill Test cricket trial. Steamer Canadian Britisher anchored in gulf last evening to carry out minor engine repairs. Hospital Board considers St. Helens Maternity Home should be available to unmarried mothers. Bequest to St. Matthew's new organ fund and diocese of Auckland in will of late Mrs. Annie Braithwaite. Lawn Tennis Association accepts Australia's invitation for visit of Englishwomen's team in 1937-3 S. Confidence in Church in Australia expressed by Primate of All Ireland, who arrived on Wanganella to-day. "We can't allow people to use the waterfront road as a speedway," says magistrate in fining motorist £3 for exceeding 00 m.p.li. In consequence of bitter racial feelings attributed to Nazi influences, South-west Africa is being included as a fifth province in the Union. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—South British, £4 12/; Colonial Sugar, £42; Consolidated Brick, 10/, 9/10; Wilson's Cement, £2 4/0; Bank of Nc\y Zealand (2), £2 2/0; New Zealand Insurance, £3 4/6, £3 5/; City of Wanganui, November I, 1940, £101 17/0. £101 Li/; Guarantee Corporation. 5/5; Kauri, £1 3/5; G. J. Coles, £3 19/6; New Auckland Laundrv, 19/9; Selfridge's (new), £1 7/0, £17/9. Australasia's createst value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/. —E. Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Davies), opp. Woolworth's. —Ad.