TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 285, 1 December 1936, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Early Christmas shopping urged. Bradnian to captain Australian eleven. Many November marriages in Auckland. . High water at Auckland to-day, 9.30 p.m. Famous Crystal Palace, London, gutted i by lire. Support at Otaliuliu for Defence. League. Sunset, 7.20 p.m.; sunrise to-morrow, 4.00 a.m. Jews admit illicit immigration to Palestine. . Fence to be erected on parapet of Grafton Bridge. Matua is due from Suva with fruit at 11 a.m. to-morrow. Governor-General returned from West Coast to Wellington. Wanganella will arrive from Sydney at 7 a.m. to-morrow. Associated Banks defeated in cricket match with Te Ratahi. Narrow escape from death of British Parliamentarians in Spain. Large shipment of fruit due in Auckland to-morrow by Matua. Higher hopes now held for better showing by English cricketers. Derailment of van delayed railway traffic on North line last evening. Great first-wicket stand by Englishmen in cricket match at Brisbane. Lord Nuffield donates over £2,000.000 for fund for benefit of Morris workers. Comment by Auckland shipping authority on Pacific shipping question. Hurunui arrived from Newport, Montreal, this morning with full cargo. New system of cash fares on Auckland Transport Board's system operative to-day. Scottish Roman Catholic Archbishop publishes vitriolic condemnation of Communism. Industrial Commission in N.S.W. holds it cannot apply 40-hour week under present legislation. Thieves returned to Svmonds Street premises last night and stole cash and stamps valued at £4. Statement .by Federal Immigration Minister's informant concerning identity of Mrs. M. M. Freer. Involved action concerning rent on chemists' premises being heard in Supreme Court to-day. Auckland Customs duty collection in November was the highest for any one month since before 1930. Bradford reports prices of yarns advancing owing to buoyant, opening of New Zealand wool season. Otahuhu Borough Council to take no action in connection with maintenance or reconstruction of Portage Road. Labourer who pleaded guilty to indecency charges to-day convicted and remanded for one week for sentence. Famous athlete, J. E. Lovelock, due to return to Auckland this evening, and. will take part in athletic carnival next Saturday. Soft goods traveller who began. bookmaking on Saturday caught yesterday. Fined £30 for using premises as common gaming house by magistrate this morning. Cable from Winnipeg states that 2,000,000 bushels of wheat have been sold on the strength of reports that Britain intends to establish an emergency wheat supply. Inauguration of air service from Auckland to Dunedin unanimously favoured by representative conference called by Chamber of Commerce to-day as an "urgent necessity" and of "paramount importance." Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-dav were: E. S. and A. Bank (2), £o 19/; National Bank of New Zealand, £3 3/0; Electro Zinc, £2 7/; Woolworths (N.Z.), £0 5/; Mount Morgan, 15/2; Stock, 15/6/52-55, 4 per cent, £103 10/; Auckland Harbour Board, 9/7/60, £106 10/; Bank of N.S.W., £35 5/; Bank of N.S.W. (Sydney), £35 2/6; Colonial Sugar, £43 1/; New Zealand Drug, £3 15/; Shillings, Ltd., 18/2. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/. —E. Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Davies), opp. Woolworths.—Ad.