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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 127, 31 May 1937, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day, 11.22 p.m. New Zealand XL's biggest score. Sunset, 4.43; sunrise to-morrow, 6.54. Australia eliminated from Davis Cup. Mariposa to sail for San Francisco at 5 p.m. Monowai to sail at noon on Friday for Sydney. Doric Star to sail for London at noon to-morrow. Court of Review to sit in Auckland on June 7. Wellington badly beaten by English Soccer team. Moloney and Wallace top scorers at Old Trafiord. Stein beat Rumberg in Auckland wrestling match. London butter market lifeless, but values unchanged. Naval survey ship H.M.S. Endeavour due here on June 14. Northern Steamship Company's annual meeting to-day. Richmond and Mount Albert head League football ladder. Undefended divorce petitions heard in" Supreme Court to-day. Untended child in cot asphyxiated by flow from feeding bottle. Woman killed by motor car at Belmont on Saturday night. Matua to arrive from Suva on Wednesday with cargo of fruit. Rabaul threatened by one of most severe volcanic disturbances. Sydney Maru arrived from Wellington this morning for final loading. New Zealand university colleges beat Auckland hockey representatives. Rarawa and Ngapuhi to be scrapped by Northern Steamship Company. Manukau-Grafton draw leaves Ponsonby on top in Rugby championship. Calm crossing of Tasman by Mariposa, which arrived from Sydney to-day. Many complaints from farmers about the injustice of employment relief tax. High standard of acting revealed in children's theatre production in Auckland. German pocket battleship hit by Spanish Loyalist aeroplane; 22 Nazis killed. Wife defends action for divorce brought by husband in Supreme Court to-day. World trade now within 7$ per cent of 1929 figures, according to London cables. Fewer road accidents in Auckland district during week-end than for some weeks past. Aorangi due from Vancouver at 7 a.m. to-morrow; to sail for Sydney at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Three per cent dividend approved at annual meeting of Northern Steamship Company to-day. Experiments now being made to test suitability of land 'planes for longdistance ocean flying. First of new Lockheed Slectra monoplanes expected to be ready for flight within next few days. Governor-General guest of honour at fifth annual dinner of English Public Schools' Club (Auckland). Pleas for continued existence of B radio stations made last night on station IZM by representative speakers. Two saw* doctors who robbed-a drunken man in his room, after a round of hotels, each sentenced to seven days. When Tasman Sea is bridged by air service, strong possibility of 'planes flying at high altitudes to avoid storm areas.

Sydney specialist in hospital architecture urges Auckland Hospital Board to engage expert in reconstruction of institution. New bowling green for tramway employees. Commercial travellers collected £534 for King George V. Memorial Fund on Saturday; Auckland aggregate now over £17,000. Complete survey of New Zealand and Pacific Islands coastal waters to be made by H.M.S. Endeavour during next five years. Increase in trading activity in Australia commented upon to-day by director of large company, which is to begin retail operations in New Zealand. Admitted to probation for three years for converting a motor car to his own use, young man was prohibited from riding in cars for that period. Linking up of New Zealand, Australia, Canada and U.S.A. by air services visualised by airways superintendent .of United States Bureau of Commerce. In sentencing a young man to 12 months' detention for converting a car, magistrate said to-day that he would probably be all right on an island without motor cars. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were: Commercial Bank, 19/2; G. J. Coles, £5 10/3; Broken Hill South, £2 11/; Consolidated Brick, 8/5; Dunlop f- r ?nln U * « 1/10 ' £1 2/; G - J - Col <£ £o 10/9; Mount Lyell, £2 5/3. Australasia'a greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/.— E. Daviea, Ltd. 1 Dentist Da vies), opp. Wool worths.— \A.