TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 30, 6 February 1939, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day, 0.10 p.m. Sunset, 7.29 p.m.3 sunrise to-morrow, 5.42 a.m. V. P. Boot wins mile championship at Sydney: Baldwin praises British democratic system. Interesting position in Plunket Shield game at Dunedin. Annual meeting of Auckland Gas Company to-day. Loyalist struggle to hold Catalonia almost abandoned. Spanish Loyalist soldiers given asylum by France. An'«.th>r Irish Republican Army bomb outrage 11' England. Panama City mob pelts Italian admiral with rotten eggs. French open frontier to Spanish Loyalist refugees and soldiers. Nuns at great risk rescne 35 babies from Melbourne foundling home. Seven priests on, Mariposa to-day, six bound for Ireland on holiday visits. Titled English business man visits Auckland for first time in 40 years. Serious loss follows outbreak of fire at freezing works at Waingawa, near Masterton. Empire Games champion Decima Gorman beaten in New South Wales sprint championship. Three bathers, including prominent tennis player, saved from drowning at Piha during week-end. Exciting experiences in* China related by director of missions of .Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. ' Chicago medical man- on Mariposa sees room for development of industrial surgery in New Zealand. -V: ... - - ; Growing, spirit of - Christianity in India commented upon by director of. missions of. Presbyterian Jiurch. New system of sending, out accounts, to consumers in* remote districts adopted, by Auckland Electric Power Board. Teamster found riding a motor cycle while intoxicated.near Wiri on Saturday sent to prison for two weeks to-day. Magistrate deals leniently - with seaman who stole 3/C from a man after shaking hands with him. by the left hand. Concern at poor dental health of many New Zealanders-. he has seen expressed by American doctor on Mariposa. Statement of Mayor regarding hospital matters criticised as being "not very convincing" by chairman of Hospital Board. For his fourth offence for being intoxicated in charge of a motor car a salesman was to-day sentenced to one month's imprisonment. , . Sequel to Great South Road accident when woman was killed heard at Supreme Court, where taxi-driver faces negligent driving charge. Secretary of Auckland, branch of Labour party does not propose to seek re-election to office when L.R.C. meets next month:to choose new officers. Qas companies in New Zealand pay a . higher»rate of taxation than those in any other part -of British Empire, \ according to chairman of Auckland. Gas Company. . Visiting lecturer states that a "carload, of dynamite could divert" the Blue Nile from Egypt to wastes of Sahara Desert; i Egyptians suspicious' of Italy's policy in - Near East. « V. V •. :.•*> • ■ Company cha inn an 'says operation - I of Government's social-security scheme will involve unwarranted inequality in its effects upon gas companies'-taxation, '- s . as compared' with •competing enterprises. For offences which the police described as of. the mean , type, a blacksmith -vvho stole £3; belonging to young woman, and obtained- £4 5/ from a man by a, false pretence was sent to prison for two weeks to-day. : , Sales 011 'Cliangie to-day were: Bank of New Zealand,. £1 18/6; Wool worths (S3 r dnev), £13/; Wool worths Holdings, 15/; Broken ;Hill/Proprietary; £2 l'S/; ) Electrolytic Zinc, £2; 7/; Triton, 10/3. Unlisted: 'Electric; Products, 16/; John Fuller, deb., 1949, oi- per cent/, £60.