TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 297, 15 December 1936, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Maize prices high in Auckland. Rescues by sun' patrols at Pilia. All swimming championships to-night. Sunset, 7.30; sunrise to-morrow, 4.56. High water at Auckland to-day, S.3G p.m. Overseas air mail reached Auckland to-day. Auckland representative cricket team chosen. Matua sails late to-night for the Islands. Port Hunter sails this evening for Wellington. Fast scoring by Hammond and Voce at Ipswich. High average for wool at Christchurch sale. .Annual exhibition of Elam School of Art opened. Surprises in Auckland's Plunket Shield team. Quten Elizabeth reported to be distinctly better. Olivebank sailed thin afternoon for Nauru Island. American claim to discovery of new artificial wool. Two runners win doubles at Ellerslie athletic meeting. Control of parking before Otahuhu Borough Council. Man injured in Dunedin through falling from a cliff. Japanese buyers dominated Christchurch wool sale. Port Whangarei arrives from Suva to-morrow with fruit. Forty-liour week discussed by Otahuliu Borough Council. Man killed in motor cycle accident' near Opunake, in Taranaki. All Black vice-captain scores 80 and 111 not out at Cliristchurch. Brick and tile workers' dispute before Conciliation Council to-day. Carol service given by choir and boys at King's College last evening. Noted American scientist to make a study of hot springs in Dominion. King George's first message to Parliament read in Lords and Commons. Rodney player bats himself into Auckland cricket team for Southern tour. Crown Prince of Tonga in Auckland to-day on his way home from visit to Sydney. Awatea arrived from Sydney this morning and sails again this evening oil her return. H.M.S. Wellington left for exercises in the Gulf this morning. She returns on Friday. Directors of Selfridge's, Limited, the famous London departmental store, arrived by Awatea to-day. Auckland schools closed to-day until next year as precautionary measure against infantile paralysis. Maternity services to be discussed with Minister of Health, the Hon. P. Eraser, by two deputations to-night. • Arrangements made to limit programmes for secondary schools which have not yet had prize-giving ceremonies. Labourer found drunk in charge of a motor truck in Panmure yesterday lined £20 and license cancelled for 12 months. For stealing his brother's property worth £10 a painter at present serving one month was given an additional month in gaol. Auckland Health Department officials say that there is need of precautions in connection with infantile paralysis, but no need for panic. Minister of Education, the Hon. P. Fraser, had a busy time in Auckland to-day transacting Departmental business and meeting deputations. Educational authorities in Auckland will confer with Minister of Education this afternoon concerning future of old Grammar School site and other matters. Appeal by H. Baulf against magisterial decision in action concerning his employment as an organiser by Democratic party withdrawn from Supreme Court. Two men who stole from an old man sentenced each to two months' imprisonment to-day. For one this will be his thirteenth successive Christmas in prison. Member of. New South Wales State Parliament arrived by Awatea to-day to study dairying industry and marketing of primary produce legislation in New Zealand. Minister in charge of Fair Rents Act, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, to take steps to deal with exploitation of homeless people by some house owners on account of house shortage. Minister of Labour, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, discussed with Otahuhu Borough Council this morning ways and means of absorbing local unemployed into full-time jobs.