TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 200, 24 August 1937, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Vivian a century. Sunset 0.23; sunrise 6.22 a.m.. Bradford wool market very firm. High water at Auckland to-day 8.47 p.m. Springboks play at Greymouth tomorrow. Strikers hurl hive of bees at police in Montreal. Auckland amateur boxing championships begun. Leith to leave Suva to-morrow for Canton Island. Matua due from Cook Islands on i Friday morning. I Power Board thanked for lower charges I to local bodies. I Hants leads Xew Zealand by 97 runs I on first innings. Maize prices k>wer in Auckland by 3d to 4d ]«?r bushel. Monterey sailed yesterday for San Francisco via ports. Tanker Henry Dundas sailed for I Sumatra this morning. Russian sailors shot after alleged revolt in Baltic Fleet. London metal prices fairlv steady, with tin slightly dearer. Attendance records, broken at Auckland Winter Exhibition. British steamer attacked by aeroplanes in Mediterranean. Bodies of 3000 Moors found in mud of drained Madrid lake. Hearing of standard wage argument continued in Arbitration Court to-day. Assistance for Arapuni from King's wharf power station no longer required. Results of Trinity College music and elocution theory examinations announced. Proposal for municipal block at Otahuhu rejected by Borough Council last night. Xaniwa Mara arrived from Japan this afternoon with sulphur and General cargo. c Second day of hearing of standard wage representations in Arbitration Court. Three hundred people killed by ehell dropping on British department store in Shanghai. Niagara to sail for Sydney at 9 p.m. in continuation of voyage from V ancouver. Railway employee at Frankton. pinned to rail by truck for an hour, superintentended his own rescue. Housing survey in Auckland City, which has been in operation since April I, Hearing completion. Regret expressed by secretary of Carpenters' Union that carpenters' strike involves other workers. Labour* remanded to-day on charge of breaking and entering a warehouse = and stealing a cheque book. Labourer fined £3 for theft and mischief and prohibited from obtaining liquor for twelve months. Maunganui to return at 9 a.m. tomorrow from her Islands cruise; she will leave for Wellington at 4 p.m. Xo payment of relief to men who refuse available farm work, according to statement by acting Minister of Labour. Unless he pays a. fine of £5 a farmer who stole an overcoat from a motor car will have to go to gaol for twenty-one days. At a meeting of Orakei carpenters in Trades Hall thfe morning it was decided to leave matters in abeyance in meantime. Third advocate for workers in Arbitration Court suggests alteration of wage computations from hourly to weekly; hourly rates described as a curse. Contention of Mr. J. H. Luxford. S.M., that magistrates should be given civil protection, supported bv Mr. Justice Oetler. If Orakei strike continues no work of any description will be carried on at the job after the end of this week says official of the Fletcher Construction Company. Twenty-five children this morning transferred from Auckland Hospital to Wilson Home for Crippled Children at Takapuna. Had strike not taken place at Orakei thirty-one houses would have been completed within a month from da*e of cessation of work. Automobile Association (Auckland) to erect warning posts at entrances to townships where 30 miles per hour speed limit does not apply. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were: —Commercial Bank, 17/10; K.Z. Insurance. £3 4/; South British, £5; Grey and Menzies. 13/6: Wilsons Cement." £1 2/9; Goldsbrough Mort., £1 15/6; Auckland Gas (con.). 15/; Broken Hill Pty. (2). £4 4/6; Electrolytic- Zinc (preff). £3 0/6; Radio (1936), £1 3/6: Taranaki Oil (3). 5/1; Wairakei. 7/7 i: Woolworths Holdings S. Africa. 16/10: stock. 15/4/46-49. 4 p.c., '£105 2/6; 15/6/52-55, 4 p.c. £105 5/; Auckland Harbour Board. 9/7/40. £102. Unlisted: McKenzies, £4 7/6; (W.A.), 13/9. Last week half-price Stokes electric cookers. —Westminster, opp. Civic. (Ad.)