TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1937, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Wool sale al Napier. Milk Council election today. Sunset, 7.H; sunrise tomorrow. 6 1. Awatca to sail for Sydney at 5 p.m. High water at Auckland to-day, (i.'i.'t !► HiMil 11 killed by lightning near JToki t i k a. Otago heats Canterbury in I'lnnket Shield. • Imperial Conference to he opened on May IK. Amu~iresults in Bombay provincial elections. Five Aucklanders in New Zealand cricket team. Sharp drop in copper on London metal market. Two men injured in motoring accident at Whanjrarei. Monterey due from San Francisco at " a.m. on Friday. Hoy fractured' hotli wrists through fall from bicycle. New Zealand cricket team to tour Enj-land selected. l'rogiaiiinie of works by Mount Albert Borou»li Council. Meeting of Onehunga ratepayers dir.-f-u<ses loeal affairs. British motoring texts find men better drivers than women. Bible-in-sehools movement discussed l»v Methodist Conference. Housing scheme criticised at meeting of Kllerslie Town Board. Tamaroa now to leave Wellington for Sotithampton next Tuesday. Fight in Shanghai l>etween British soldiers and Italian sailors. Methodist Conference urge* divinity degrees at university college#. All Abyssinian* possessing arms reported to have been executed. One thousand four hundred wives leave to join husbands in Ahvssinia. Question 0 f local body amalgamation brought before Ellerslie Town Board. Italy may refuse to l>e represented at Coronation because Abyssinia has been invited. Nash, latest recruit to Australian eleven, bats and bowls well for Victoria against England. Cambridge comes into port from the powder grounds at 6 p.m. to di-chnrg» Liverpool cargo. Dairy farmer arrested on charge of l>eing in state of intoxication while in charge of motor car. Messrs. Andrews, Rosser and Oougla* elected by (lity Council as its represen tatives on Milk Council. Further heavy rises in metals and other goods affected by armaments activities, local warehousemen report. Engineers' I T nion passes resolution ' complaining of "consistently unsatisfactory decisions" of Arbitration Court. No. 1 Transjiort Licensing Authority Mr. E. .T. Phelan, to hold sittings nex r month in the Bay of Plenty and East • Coast districts. 1 Master of Altair, who sighted scow r Rangi shortly before she sank, stated at inquiry to-day that it was impossible to do anything for ber. Woman who alleged that she was slandered by old man, who previously e wished to marry her, claiming £800 damages in Supreme Court. When imposing a fine of £5 for per I mitting use of an unlicensed motor van. magistrate said this was one of most i, serious breaches of Motor Vehicles Act. Authority to borrow £30,000 for purchase of properties in Pitt Street, on which to build new flre brigade station, received by Auckland Metropolitan Fi.r Board. Appointment of Mr. T. F. Anderson, secretary of the Auckland Seamen's 4 Union, as an assessor at the ;i.i|ui>-v : into the loss of the scow Rangi, objected to. Sales on 'Change to-day were:—Bank I. of New South Wales, £36 10/; Lank of Now Zealand. £2 4/0, £2 .V; National Insurance, 18/lAuckland flat, £1 1/1; New Zealand Brewc-ie*, £.1; [4 Tooths Breweries. £2 17/4J; Turn tin ki Oil, 3/1 (2); Farmers' Trading, £1 3/; 'j New Zealand Forestry Bondholders. 11)2(1 - planting, BB Issue, £31 10/': South „ British. £4 17/0 (21; Yarra Falls. £2 n 1/!); New Zealand Breweries, £3 0/0; Australian Glass, £4 13/6; Broken Hill, - £4 10/. £4 0/; Dunlop. Ift/3; E'ectrolytic Zinc (pref.), £3 4/; Macky Logan. K £1 2/6; Morris Hedstrom. £1 0/6: Morts Dock, 15/3; Mount Lvell. £2 14/6. £2 14/; Mount Morgan (">), 18/3. Unlisted: Selfridges (Australia), new, = £1 10/3. _ Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/set w of teeth for £2 10/. —E. Davies, Ltd. •i (Dentist Davies), opp Woolworths.—Ad.