TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1937, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Bradman in excelsis! Australia 500 for six. Reefton races to-morrow. New Zealand lawn tennis finals. Rises reported in hardware prices. I.arge block of flats planned for city. Sunset. 7.44; sunrise to-morrow, 5.10. High water at Auckland to-day, 2.0S p.m. P'immerton wins third Cornwell Cup race. Details of private hotel workers' award. Northern coal mines strike speedily settled. Greymouth trots, postponed from Tuesday. Mountaineers, cut off by avalanches in Germany. Akaroa sails for London to-morrow afternoon. Rain holds up Dominion bowls singles yesterday. New Zealand butter 3/ to 4/ higher in London. Main routes in North reported clear after storm. No play this morning in New Zealand tennis finals. Motorists meet trouble on scenic road near East Cape. Borthwick's freezing works idle as result of dispute. Tanker Lacklan arrived from Palembang this morning. Widow found dead in city flat. Inquest opened and adjourned. Port Alma due from Opua this evening to load for London. Marked drop in Dominion fruit crops owing largely to frosts. Presentation to Piha Surf Club of two hollow Hawaiian surf boards. Interior of Supreme Court being improved: completion by February 2.° Considerable building work* contemplated at various suburban post offices. Sir Alexander Godley mentioned as probable Governor of New South Wales. All main arterial highways in Auckland province in suitable condition for traffic. Viscount Elibank considers Qermanv's colonial demands could be amicablv satisfied. England 624 behind at close of Tuesday's play, and Bradman still to be conquered. German prince, one of witnesses at Dutch Royal wedding, not permitted to " leave Germany. Youth injured in a head-on collision between motor cycles on December 29 dies in hospital. Abnormally heavy registered letter mail due to issuing of notifications to mortgage guarantors. Negative result in diagnosis of vounyr man in Ponsonby suspected to have contracted infantile paralysis. Verdict of accidental drowning returned at inquest concerning death of well-known Devonport news agent. Mortgage relief applications" dribbling in; rush expected to begin next week and continue to closing date, January Highways inspectors gratified at the impro\ ed standard of driving by motorists during Christmas and New Year holidays. , Minister of Transport jrives reserved ! judgment in connection with an apjieal I concerning Cambridge to Auckland motor service. Suspect arrested and chaijrod witli breaking and entering a house in One Tree Hill on Monday and stcalin™ jewellery worth £39. Bradman (248 not again ex**e]*= in Melbourne, the only. Australian pround on which he has compiled a Te«t century against. England. Australian delegation. 200 strony. arrives by Awatea next Monday to take part in Australian and New Zealand Science Congress at Auckland. Complaints of speeding at Buckland's Beach made by residents, and representations made to Manukau Countv Council and Automobile Association. Labourer who gave himself up to the police on New Year's Eve, and confessed to stealing £13. which he had collected as union fees, admitted to probation, i Two-storeyed building to be erected at Mount Albert for the Plant Research ■ Bureau, which is extending its opera - tions to embrace the studv of fruit ; diseases, particularly as they relate to the Auckland province. ; Over 86,000 pennies were inserted in r automatic telephone slot machines in r Auckland metropolitan area during J Christmas week. During the same week - it is estimated that over 33.000 pennies ; went through stamp vending machines. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set - "teeth for £2 10/.— E. Davies, Ltd. - (Dentist Davies), opp. Wool worth#.—Ad.