TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 44, 22 February 1937, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Australian fifth Test t"iirn. Waikato races again today. Surf rc»cucs lit Piha vesterda\ . Opening cf Crey inoiit li air port House at Parnell damaged liv Are F. ]'. O'Brien h century <«jr«in<-1 <>tn.Sunset, 7.11; sunrise to morrow, High water at Auckland to (lav, 4.1 > i.in. Maori child drowned in stream neai ]'<lU]K). Heavy traffic l>v express south ln-t 'veiling. Air mail from London brought by Aorangi. New Zealand Methodist Conferen. >• •on tin lied. Munv through passengers on R.M.S Aorangi. Body of elderly man found in Mann kau Harbour. Aorangi delayed by weather on trip from Sydney. Wintry weather retarding harvesting in Canterbury. ltiiin stoji* play early in England \ Victoria cricket. Young motor cyclist fat«illy injure! in city collision. Contract signed for Louis-Braddock world title figlit. Young left-hand bowler score* een tury in Sheffield Shield. N'asli included in thirteen playeiv i-alled lip for final Test. Six ministers ordained in Pitt Street Methodist Church yesterday. >lapan announces (scheme of sub*id isitig new- ships for foreign trading. Members of Transport Board'* clerical staff to enjoy five-day week. Week-end searches for mi«sing Brisbane-Sydney air liner vain. Surf life-saving demonstrations by Australian team at Piha yesterday. Diamond jubilee celebration at St. John's Methodist Church, Ponsonbjf. Aorangi, which arrived at 11 a.m., to sail for \'ancouvcr at 3 p.m. to-morrow. Cambridge arrived from Liverpool at 7 a.m. at the powder grounds, Motuihi. Barque Winterhude to sail on Sunday for South Australia, to load wheat for England. Wages fixed for male section of Auck laud hairdressers in conciliation council to-day. Need for direct State action in assist ing surf life-saving clubs stressed by club captain. Australian expert pr«*licts extinction of whales in Antarctic due to unrestricted killing. Kangitiki left on Saturday for Wei lington to discharge, and will return on March 1 to loud. Hepair work on submarine telegraph cable between Auckland and North Shore begun to-day. Kapid spread of Methodism in Solomon Islands reported to New Zealand Methodist Conference. Truck driver fined £20, and had his license cancelled for six months, on intoxication charge. Awatea due on Wednesday morning from Wellington, and will sail at p.m. that day for Sydney. School teacher* reported for duty to-day to prepare for reopening of schools next Monday. Klderly Maori fatally shot an I daughter seriously injured at Patuma hoe; son charged with murder. Some of the world's most beaut ifk' butterflies and moths to be exhibited on behalf of Cripple<| Children's Fluid. Caught taking bets on the outside of the trotting course on February 17. n salesman was to-day fined £2."> on »i book making charge. Found mi enclosed premises at Epsom at midnight on Saturday, a young lab ourer was remanded uutil to-morrow morning for sentence. Plan* for building service aircraft and engines iu Australia outlined by representative of new firm, travelling to America on Aorangi. I wo inmates of Koto Boa Inebriates' Home who refused to work, stating thev would prefer prison, sentenced to three months' imprisonment for insubordina tion. Man who had, since December, lived in Auckland on proceeds of sneak thefts from offices, and admitted stealing £00 10/, sentenced to 12 months' imprison merit. Sales on the Auckland Stock E* change to-day were:—Commercial Bank. 10/5; K.S. and A. Bank. £0 8/(1; Far nicrs' Trading, £1 3/; Morts Dock. 14/0, 14/0, 14/11; Auckland Cas, £1 1/; Huddart, Parker, £1 10/; Dominion Breweries rights, 10/0j N.Z. Breweries (3), £3; Broken Hill Pty., £4 7/; (~ .1. Coles, £."> 11/; Colonial Sugar, £43; Mount Lycll, £2 12/0; Stock, March. 1030-43, 3j j>er cent, £101 1 5/; Amalgamated Brick (Auckland), 1/3/44. 7'. percent (3), £103 10/. Unlisted: British Neon, 13/j Woolwortlis (Sydney), £h 7/3. On Saturday night 500 danecnthronged the Peter Pan Cabaret, prov ing the immense popularity of Theo Walters' Famous Band, under the direction of Frederick Carr.— (Ad.)

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