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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water at Auckland 9.48 p.m. Sunset 5.9; sunrise to-morrow, 6-26. Oamaru races to-day and Saturday. Shooting season opens on Saturday. One •estate of £38.000 in wills of the month. Driver slightly injured when service car overturned. Mr. James Henry Fowler appointed auditor-general. Wanganella leaves for Sydney at 3 p.m. to-morrow. Navy v. Auckland Soccer match 01 Coronation Day. Slight improvement in London mefci prices yesterdav. Young man committed for eentenc. on charge of bigamy. Australia-South Africa woman flye held up at Bangkok. Hotel porter killed when struck b\ motor car at Timaru. Trout fishing season in Auckland p~o vince closes to-monow. Oildo outpointed by Aitken in boxing contest at Invercargill. I_ nusual mishap by man's beard beinp cauplit in bicycle chain. Hamilton rejects loan proposal for Garden Place Hill scheme. Exhibition of etchings closes at Art Gallery next Wednesday. Auckland's contribution to Memorial Fund now exceeds £6000. Royal Academy exhibition in London produces no problem pictures. Radio licenses increase by over 49.000 for year ended March 31 last. Mr. De Valera says Free State will not attend Imperial Conference. Personnel of commissioners to revise electoral boundaries announced. Mrs. Simpson's decree absolute expected to be granted on May 3. Canada to participate in great Empire Exhibition at Glasgow next year. Liner Queen Mary may attack Atlan tic record on Coronation crossing. Timber mill destroyed by fire at Mercer; damajre estimated at £3000. Indian hawker arrested and remanded on charge of robbery with violence. New regulations gazetted in connec tion with trawling in Bay of Plenty. Criminal session to open in Supremo Court next Tuesday; list below average. England desirous of sending womenV hockey team to New Zealand next year Dannevirke Racing Club's meeting at Woodville course to-morrow and Saturday. Man fatally injured when bush railway jigger leapt the rails near National Park. Elephant weighing SI tons falls from sling during loading operations at Cal cutta. British Labour party protests against rebel bombing of helpless towns ir Spain. Record number of divorce petition r listed for hearing at second quarter! v session. London wool sales continue firm, wit' home trade taking bulk of besi Merinos. Share-milker sentenced to six month imprisonment for theft of cattle fro?his employer. Monowai berthed at Western whar to-day to be recoramissioned for Van couver service. Wellington Harbour Board to make : prant of £3000 to King George Y Memorial Fund. Opinions expressed by fruit industrthat Government control will be difli cult to carry out. Brisbane Maru arrived from Napier to-day and sails for China and Japan at noon to-morrow. Firm market at Ceylon tea sales this week. Fine broken orange pekoes advanced Jd per lb. King's. wharf power station to be started on May 10 to relieve Coronation power demand on Arapuni. Matters of interest to Manurewa discussed with Minister of Internal Affairs by Town Board deputation. Wellington express one hour late this morning owing to goods train stalling on a gradient near Pokeno. Start to be made next Mondoy with building of first house at Orakei under Government housing scheme. Satisfactory position disclosed at twenty-ninth annual meeting of Auckland Kindergarten Association. Opinion that State should provide for "forgotten men" unable to obtain regular employment expressed by th< Hon. W. E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs, to Manurewa deputation. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—New Zealand Insurance £3 1/3; South British, £4 13/8; Kaia- * poi Wool, 14/; Australian Glass, £4 9/3; General Industries, £1; G. J. Coles (2), £5 5/3; Stock, 15/4/1946-49, 4 per cent, £102 5/; Goldsbrough Mort. £1 18/7J; Dominion Breweries (2), £2,3/; Broken Hill Pty. (2), £4 1/3; Sanford 5/6; Maori Gully, 6d. Unlisted: FarmersFreezing (£5 paid), £5 11/3; Selfridges (old), £1 15/. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/.— E. Davieg, Ltd (Dentist Davies), opp. Woolworths.—