TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1937, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Australia "wilts Test easilv. Invert-argil] wool sale to-dav. Irottiiip at Hutt Park to-morrow. Wellinpton batting in Plunket Shield match. Australian swimmers coming next month. New Zealand cycling record bv A. G. Patrick. T liiet steals £00 from caravan at ftotonia. Record yarding of sliee;. at AVcstfield yesterday. Rnmotir that Lindberghs may fly to Australia. Open athletic meeting at Ellerslie to-morow. Australia lias now won .55 Tests to England's 54. Search continues for lost Australian Air h «>rco hnmbor. Sliarj) conflict of evidence in marine inquiry at Melbourne. Fleet w„„d-Smith bowls Hammond; ti>ko> <i\ \vicket>. Ntimlier of prisoners to Ik? sentenc~d in Supreme Court on Monday. Racing at Riccarton. New Plymouth and AA'airoa to-morrow. Auckland v. Wellington Plunket Shield match at Eden Park to-dav. Another batch of unlicensed radio listeners before Police Court to-day. Health Department offers no objection to Sunday schools reopeninsr immediately. Bri ish Cabinet anxious regarding allowance to be made to Duke of Windsor. r - -T- Jordan to broadcast from London at 5.30 a.m. (Greenwich timet to-morrow. Bodies of four occupants of London newspaper 'plane found incinerated after erasb. Erection of fence on Grafton Kr-1-?. to prevent suicides, to begin in a few weeks' time. Necessity for propaganda in educating pc<vle in use of milk ':-rod bv chairman ■ T " M?lk Council. Farm manager committed for trial on charge of attempting to murder detective at Whangamomona. Agreement reached in local bodv labourers" dispute except on issues of wases and holidays. Bradford voo) cables notify '"'encourasing inquiry" but at prices below "current high levels." Government intends to legislate next session to enable advances for modernising of house. Compared with previous month, there was a decrease of two infectious ca«es in Auckland in Januarv. Jury failed to ajrree in third trial of Hastings woman on charges of unlawfully using an instrument. Government will not make gra.its towards cost of memorials to the late Kins George or Coronation. j Man who was electrocuted at Whaka- | tane had held '"live" wires until his arms j were blue with the current. I All primary and secondary schools | whicTi make application will partieina e i mi free distribution of milk. j Milk to be supplied to schools in | Auckland under Government scheme j will total 1820 gallons dailv. | Supplying of liquor to Maoris for consumption off licensed premises "mu=t j stop, says R.M.; offenders heavily finod. | pensioner whose attempt at suicide on Grafton Bridge was frustrated. to come tip for sentence within j 12 months. j Decrease of £40.001 in working profit I of railways during holiday period, compared with previous Christmas and Xew j \ ear holidays. j Well over a pound of liutterfat per day was produced by most herds in Morrin«ville district during December. Some herds averaged lilb. Further warning of higher penalties issued by magistrate to-day in dealing with five men who made false stated nietits under the Employment Promotion Act. Youth of Ji. found in state of intoxication in charge of a motor car. ordered to come up for sentence within 12 months: he is not to drive or consume liquor during that period. Storemen's and Packers* Association suggest to Minister of Industries and Commerce that Government should either assume control of oil industry, or permit increase in petrol prices in districts where prices are controlled. Sales on "Change to-day were:—Commercial Bank. 19/5: Kauri Timber. £1 3/3. £1 3/4; Tooth's Brewerv. £2 17 /". Aust. Glass (21. £4 13/: Broken Hill Pty.. £4 1/: Broken Hill (Con.). £3 8/4; Consolidated Brick. 10/3: Electro Zinc pref.. £2 lfi/6 : G. J. Coles. £o: Auckland City. 1/1/44-55. £102 10/: Farmers' Auctioneering (B pref. ex div.l. £1 1/0; Morts Dock. 13/41: T'nited Provisions. 10/: Broken Hill South, £2 O-'O: Christchurch Drainage Board. 13/12/40. £101. Unlisted: Farmers' Freezing £1 piid. £1 1/(5: Selfridcres (A'sia.l (old). £'2 2/: Selfridges (X.Z.I. 4/ paid. 7/. Australasia's greatest value. £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/. — E. Davies. Ltd. iT)enti=t Daviesl. opp. Woolworths. — Ad. I