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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 114, 17 May 1938, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Bradman 275. High water to-day, 9.27 p.m. Overseas metal market? weak. Tree tomatoes plentiful in city. Sunset. sunrise to-morrow. 6.43. Wrestler incapacitated at Wellington. ]\<-iinffle of Briti'li Cabinet announced. Gold rises to £7 0/1 an ounce in London. British Everest pany establish base at IMHKift. At least 24 dead in fire in hotel in Georgia. I'.S.A. \ atican City recognises Franco '"Government" in .--pain. C uml>erland arrhe-s from Liverpool at (i a.m. to-morrow. Improved demand for apples at Auckland auctions to-day. Two British Cabinet Ministers in House of rosijrn. Governor-Ceueral inspects King's Empire Veterans' Home. Matua arrives from the Islands with fruit at 9 p.m. to-day. Experts' test* for first deep oil bore on Ea«t Coa*t coni]«leted. Green vegetable* dear at city market*, hut jxitato supplies ample. Britain and Germany to discus* Austria's loan indebtedness. Highest price for years obtained for cabbages at Hamilton to-day. Surplus; fhown in' national accounts for second year in succession. Port Gisborne arrives this evening from Bluff to load for l^ondon. League trial at Carlaw Park to-mor-row for selection of North Inland team. Aorangi sailed for Vancouver at 11.30 a.m. with 330 passengers from Auckland. Civil- claim brought by cyclist for damages heard in Supreme Court to-day. Final party of children from Mottiihi health camp leav? for homes in the country. Auckland provincial conference of New Zealand Fanners" Union opened to-day. Australian waterside workers warned against boycotting of loading iron for Japan. Headquarter* of French Consulate in Xew Zealand shifted from Auckland to 'Wellington. Decision to lian cycle racing in eountv made by Manuka)] County Council at meeting to-day. YVyatt and Fdrich only outstanding bat-men for M.C.C. when forced to follow-on by Australia. Surplus of £530.683 shown in dairyaccount up to last week, according to : Minister of Finance at Lower Hutt. ! Official count in city elections completed; two changes indicated in personnel of council; Labour loses another seat. System of levying rates on local bodies by Hospital Board criticised by clerk to Manukau County in report presented to-day. Waterside worker die« in Auckland Hospital as a result of injuries received while working on the Aorangi this morning. Hospital Board chairman would like to see Wilson Crippled Children's Home become institution for whole of North Island at least. Editor of English agricultural journal describes statements that thei'e are starving and undernourished people in England as "very misleading."' Application for permission to borrow f.Ti.OOfl for borough improvements made to Local Government Loans Board by Newmarket Borough Council. A vital feature ofßriti-li" justice is that the judiciary shall !«• untrammelled and unfettered in its adminislari ion of the liw. says the Attorney General. "The Courts are expected to give a liber.il and benevolent interpretation of the law where pos-.jbilc."' said the Attorney-General, the Hon. H. G. K. Mason, in an address last evening. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchr.nse to-day were: Commercial Bank (pref.), £9 7/6: Bank of New South Wales. £31 15/: Dominion Investment. IS/6; Kauri (2). £1 0/9; N.Z. Breweries, £2 .■>/; Australian Iron and Steel (pref.). £1 7/9: Consolidated Brick. S/ll: Woolworths Holdings, l«/ 4: Wel- • lington Alluvial*, 5/4: Tanpiri. 10/3: Hilddart. Parker. £2 5/3; Broken Hill I Proprietary. £3 1/9; Taranaki Oil. S/; Martha. 12/6; Bonds. 1952-55. 4 p.c., £104 10/: South British'. £2 7/9.