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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 26, 1 February 1937, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Boxing- at Town Hall to-night. High water at Auckland. 11.31 p.m. Sunset. 7.oo; sunrise to-morrow. 5.37. Australia 2SB: England two for 174. Schools reopening date still indefinite. Child drowned in baths at Te Awaniutu. -Mysterious outbreak of fire in Howiek School. Championship tennis at Stanley Street. Boy's eye injured through shot from air gun. Auckland Plunket Shield team selected. l-'our centuries in Christehureh on Saturday. Dominion list of University bursars announced. lurther steps to prevent credit boom in America. Dramatic suicide by Australian doctor in Kngland. Racketeer shot dead by creditors in Xew .Tersev. Davis Cup double beaten by Australian juniors. X.» official intimation regarding opening of schools. Decreased totalisator return at Takapuna meeting. Motor cyclist injured in collision in Victoria Street. Australian surf life-saving team to tour Xew Zealand. Long list of motor collision cases for trial in Wellington. Cas and petrol peril after floods endanger Cincinnati. Tenders for State houses at Orakei to be called this month. Middlesbrough draws with Charlton in English Soccer League. Civic farewell to" be given to H.M.S. Dunedin on February 15. Xew Year honours announced —two Xew Zealanders knighted. Final day for lodging of applications for mortgage adjustments. . Noting woman injured when thrown from horse at One Tree Hill. Criminal sessions open in South. Auckland opening to-morrow. Se<rrave Trophy for aerial achievement awarded to Miss Batten. C.igantic Empire loan mentioned as part of Coronation celebrations. McCrath beats Bromwich after great fight in Australian tennis final. Te Awamutu farmer killed when car he was driving went over a bank. Increase in post office deposits for 193fi compared with previous year. Wool values hold at Christehureh sale, although .Tapan is out of market. Three persons injured when car overturned near Whangamarino School. •Toe Louis defeated Pastor in heavvweieht boxing contest in Xew York. Elderly man knocked down by runaway motor ear in Welleslev Street. Hapless natives in Far Xorth promised better conditions by Minister. Luton ties with Sutherland and Brentford loses to Derby in English Soccer Cup. Twelve American naval seaplanes complete flight from San to Honolulu. Two youths and girl have narrow escape from drowning in Waikato River. Oood scoring again in Auckland senior cricket; \ ivian and Ivan Cooper centuries. Immediate measures to assist destitute northern Maoris forecast byMinister. Big increase in union membership indicated by returns submitted by Auckland unions. Matua arrived from Suva this morning with passengers, mails and 7000 cases of fruit. Secondary school enrolments la;r owing to many parents being 011 pro loused holidays. Millions participate in Roosevelt birthday ceremonies; infantile paralysis campaign started. Annual contest for Sanders Cup to begin at Lyttelton on Thursday; five provinces will compete. Mother and six children admitted to hospital suffering from acute form of dysentery. One child died. Young man who appeared on three charges of false pretences committed for sentence to Supreme Court to-day. Team of 13 Australian surf life-savei* arrive in Auckland by Wanjranella on cdnesday to make tour of Dominion. Commission agent who failed to account for £41 to an insurance company placed on probation for two years. Draughtsman and engineer already serving a •sentence remanded on charge of obtaining £10 from a city firm by false pretences. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—Xew Zealand Breweries. £2 17/3; Farmers' Trading. £1 3/; O. •T. Coles. £4 17/3. £4 17/9:" Morts Dock. 13/3: Roller Mills. £1 •>/: Waihi Investment. 13/2; Mount Morgan. 16/91; j Hawera County Council. 15/11 /1041. £102: Auckland Transport Board. 1/4/1930. £100. fnlisted: Woolworths (Sydney), £S 14/. Australasia's srreatest value. £5 0/ set of teeth for £2 10/.— E. Da vies. Ltd. (Dentist Da vies), onp. Woolworths.—Ad.