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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day, 11.40 p.m. Sunset. 7.20; sunrise to-morrow, 5.45. Riimitaka sails for London noon, Satvrday. j Many floats already promised for : Centennial procession. ! Twelve of executive of 13 of All-India '• Congress resign office. i Awatea due at Auckland at 1 p.m., j Monday, from Sydney. J Government investigating wastage of j sera]) metal in Dominion. I National registration made compulsory in Southern Rhodesia. Two Arab delegations to London conference still unable to agree. Cruise ship Stratheden arrives from Brisbane at noon to-morrow. Married woman appears in Supreme I Court to-day on grave charge. j Loss of British and big gjTin of foreign . settlers in Australia last year. j Collegiate XI. selected* to play Sir Jiilicii Calm's side on Monday. Germans propose suppression of natives if colonies are returned. J Xew Zealand import restrictions may j cost Australia £1,000.000 a year. Colonial League founded" in Britain to oppose surrender to Germany. Thieves rob Dominion Road resident of £400 worth of cash and jewellery. Year Book for 1939 issued this week by Census and Statistics Department. Japanese protest against action of British Warship in Chinese waters. Claims of proposed Waiiakere National Park put forward at public meeting. Two new hangars to be erected" at Uigram aerodrome at cost of £40,000. Professors in New - Zealand overworked, declares visiting Oxford professor. * British Government pressed for general election next month by sunporters. . r Some firms considering factory extensions in Auckland; little definite movement yet. Series of instructional classes in remedial measures against gae attack to be held in Auckland. Curious case before Police Court concerning forging and uttering warrant of fitness for motor truck. Tiritiri Island eignal station reports no sign of American auxiliary yacht Navigator from America and Samoa. Scrap metal valued at more than £< 0,000 thrown into New Zealand rubbish dumps each year because of export ban. r Temperatures throughout New Zealand lower than normal during Januarv according to report of Dominion meteorologist. Final arrangements for Physical Fitness Week to be dismissed at meeting of sporte body representatives tomorrow night. R. S. Higginbotham's team only one unoeaten after seventh round in Rotorua bowling tourney. Registrar of "Supreme Court at Invercargill, appointed to Cook Islands as judge of Native Land Court. Request of North Shore boroughs to nave royal commission set up to investigate water problems declined by Minister of Internal Affairs. Body found at Muriwai Beach identined as that of a farmer who was » drowned near Waikato Heads while > bathing on January 29. At inquest held to-day, the coroner said it was useless trying to instil iato the public the danger of bathing fo 3 outgoing tides on ocean beaches. - n Abru P t ending to case in Supreme • Court to-day; jury announces that it i has heard enough evidence and accused i on indecent assault charge is acquitted. ! Described as well-known Australian ■ criminal, man who admitted being in possession of housebreaking implement t sentenced in Police Court to six months* ; imprisonment. ■ Clashing of dates revealed in connec- » l iO \ W ! t , h Visit of M »nister of Labour t to Auckland next week for purpose of 1 discussing setting up of industrial . advisory council. { No confusion with respect to transport expected by No. 1 Transport Licensing Authority when P. and O. Kner btratneden arrives with Australian tourists to-morrow. ' 1 ! 8 on 'Change to-day were: South r British, £2 4/7; Broken Hill Pty, £2 17/9; Dominion Fertilizer, £1 1/3. Woolworths (N.Z.), 17/9; Commerciai j Bank, 16/; Bank of New Zealand, £1 - 18/9; Colonial Sugar, £48 5/; Wooli ESS-. ffisW £1 3/7j Monnt