TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 79, 4 April 1938, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

J Oxford wins the boat race. I Yt clpiiiup rain at ♦he week-end. Sunset. e.H : sunrise to-morrow, 6.37. High-water at Auckland to-dav, ICL29 4 p.m. : Bi<: tenni? surprise at Stanley Street on Saturday. Krhain reoogni***; union of Austria ' with (iernianv. T s Spani>h rebel* score important sne- ;. at J^erida. Dramatic rescue of launch party off 1 the Fox ton Bar. L Auckland not affected by reductions in romrnt prifps. rlaim continued onoce«««s against Japanese. - Fir>t F-lnpnient of State banana* on board Niapara. '. Xew scK-ial service scheme announced by Prime Minister. t Increases in miners' pensions and xrar ; _ veteran*' allowances. >■ <iirl rider killed when returning from Ota«ro Hunt Club's nioetinjr. s Qneeni=lanci I-abotir victory in State .' election- surprises ol>~ervers! n Semi official refutation of Vatican 1 broadcast on Austrian plebiscite. ■ Toll of wars in Spain and China esti- , mated to amount to nearly 500.000. » Institution <>f orphans" pensions at 15/ s per woek: widows" pensions increased. s Small motor car practically wrecked ; when it crashed into a post at Pokeno. Monterey arrived from Sydney at 7.5 a.m. to-day: to sail for San Francisco at - •"> p.m. b Tenders to be called for Iβ houses at ; Sandrinpham >i«de- State hou. ing I scheme. Hauraki should arrive et Auckland on '• Wednesday morning from Pacific Slose - via Tahiti. s Semi-official Vatican news service disavows the broadcast about the Austrian plebiscite. Niagara from Vancouver thi* afteri noon: to sail for Sydney at 11 p.m. ] to-morrow. ' Explanation of proposed panel system -; given by British Medical Aeeociation president to-day. Engineer who drove car when intoxioated fined £10 and deprived of license • for twelve months. I Wages tax of one shilling in the pound to be imposed for part payment of social service scheme. Hearing of murder charge against ] Swanson youth expected to begin in ■ Poljce Court on April 13. I Cprnian stenmer Anhait expected from South to-morrow to complete loadirg for i New York and Continental ports. Critiei?m of insufficient provision for 1 specialist treatment made by Dr. L. - Ludbrook on Covernment's scheme. 0 Two young men who behaved in dit.l orderly way after dance at Swaneon fined £3 each by Mr. F. K. Hunt. S.M. D Middlesex expected to lea.e Napier - 10-niplit: due Auckland Wednesday ~ morning to complete loading fc London. '■_> Japanese motor ship Kozan Maru «1 cnhlcs her arrival in Auckland for April i"> 7: , fivc da - vs ahpad of amended schedule. u insurance manager states that Gov,d crnment's superannuation scheme will make whole life insurance policies more popular. D Five motorists pinned under capsized . car near Whangarei on Sunday evening bad a remarkable escape from serious *• injury. y London apple market overloaded with American and Canadian appl°s. preju- - dicing the sale of new teasor/s from this ■"" Dominion. 4 ( ity of Wellington, dischargrinc ron- • signments from St. John and" Hilifax. listed to sail for Lyttehon on Fridav in - continuation. a New Maori meetinghouse on shores of Lake Rotoiti opened by Hon. P. C. \\ ebb on Sunday afternoon in presence of great native gathering. • Impossible to foresee results of swh tremendous change, and there will be confusion and upheaval. B.M.A. president cvays. commenting on Government > health proposal-. Method- and wonderful result* of modern reparative surgery ilhh=trated to Auckland i=urjreons this morning in film lecture by Dr. .•pdegraff. famous American p!a»tic surceon. sales on "Change to-day were: Bank of New Zealand (21. £2 3/3; South British (2). £2 5/3: Taupo Totara. 5/7: > ( olnnial Sugar. £47 2/6: Farmer*' t Tradinp. £1 0/3: Woolworths (N^.), £1 1/4; Wool worths (Sydney). £1 1/4; 5 Martha. 14/6: Mount Lyell.' £1 9/.