TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 232, 30 September 1936, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Manukau by-election to-day. High water at Auckland 6.4S p.m. _ Sunset 0.24; sunrise to-morrow 5.57. Air mail due at Auckland on Friday. Trout fishing season to open to-mor-row. Ladies' golf championships continued to-day. Rotorua leaves for Wellington this evening. Increased trade for Port of Auckland last month. Auckland cricket season to be opened on October 24. Port Fairy to sail for London to-mor-row afternoon. Fierce attack on whites by natives in New Guinea. Offer of Irish recruits for Spanish rebel army rejected. Admiralty tanker Nueula arrived fr< — San Pedro last night. Control of hoardings discussed bv Ellerslie Town Board. British shipping magnate's esta sworn at £30,084,425. , Comliebank arrived this afterno n with cargo of phosphate. Port Whangarei arrived from Tonjj at noon to-day with fruit. Spanish rebels starting out from Toledo in march on Madrid. Decided at meeting at Papakura to form a carriers* association. Large number of men registered for railway work near Wanganui. Naval engagement between Spanish factions in Straits of Gibraltar. Final meetings In Manukau by-elec-tion campaign held last evening. Australian proposals for reform of the League of Nations explained. Steamer Wingatui arrived at Napier with no visible signs of fire in hold. Proposal for £2,500,000 air service from Russia to America, over Siberia. •Removal of Ferry Building urged at meeting of Auckland Harbour Board. New Zealand entrant amongst the ' leading machines in Johannesburg air race. Less building in Mount Eden last month compared with August of last year. Cumberland came from, powder ground this afternoon to discharge cargo from London. Legal argument being heard in the Supreme Court to-day in Redwood Forests case. Claim for £25,000 against Commonwealth Government arising out of fruit marketing case. Two Spanish jirinees dead —one fighting in Spain, the other in motor accident in Vienna. Local body drivers' application for award to be heard in conciliation in Wellington to-morrow. Improvement in London dairy produce markets; New Zealand butter now at 105/ and cheese 70/ per cwt. Keen interest in Manukau by-election; large fleets of motor cars bringing many voters to the polling booths. Claims for a Dominion award for storemen and packers and warehouse employees filed in Auckland. Mount Eden Borough Council ol opinion that old windmill should be retained by city for all time. Increase in motor accidents referred to at annual meeting of North Island Motor Union Insurance Company. Reason why carpenters in Auckland are not accepting P.W.D. jobs explained by secretary .of Carpenters' Union. Cheeseman Memorial spring show of native flowers to be concluded at Auckland War Memorial Museum this even ing. Ellerslie Town Board decided to restrict parkin<r of motor cars in certain streets adjoining racecourse on race days. Presentation, made to Mr. E. J. Plielan by Timber Workers' Union in recognition of his 30 years service as secretary. Motor cyclist escaped injury when he crashed into the back of a car which stopped suddenly to let blind man pass early this morning. Described as an habitual thief, a labourer with 43 previous who stole from his benefactor was sentenced to six months' imprisonment to-day. -Nineteen-year-old youth who was arrested while masquerading as a woman was remanded to-day to appear at Wanganui on October 5 on a charge of stealing a motor car. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were: —Loan and Mercantile (21. _ £35;' Broken Hill (rights), 2/10; Wai : 10/6; National Insurance, 18/9; Aust lian Glass, £4 12/6; Broken Hill, s 10/3; Farmers' Trading, 18/10; G. -T Coles, £4 2/; Tarajiaki Oil, 1/6; Mo ;:v Morgan, 14/5. 14/3; Placer Developmc nf £4 19/. Unlisted: Woolwortlis (S>. -iney), £5 6/6. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth fo- £2 10/. —E. Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Davies). opp. Woolworths. —Ad.