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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 185, 8 August 1939, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

liigli water to-day, 12.10 p.m. Grand National Steeples to-day. West Indies beat Welshmen atcrieket. Sunset, 5.10 p.m.; sunrise to-morrow, C.42 a.m. Danzig replies to Poland on Customs dispute. Leander returns from Pacific cruise on Thursday. Butter trade slow and cheese quiet on Toolev Street. Erlangen to leave for Wellington tomorrow evening. Aorangi to sail at S p.m. for Vancouver. via way ports. Fresh vegetables scarce and prices up again at city markets. Mr. Nash arrives in New York and proceeds to Washington. Axis Powers pressing Japan for decision on alliance question. Reserve company of Auckland Bat talion parades for first time. Wife of co-respondent aids his defence in Wellington divorce action. Most extensive air exercises vet held to begin in England to-night. Legislation to be sought to stop dangerous solo climbing oil Egmont. Constable warns players in "roughhouse" football match at Waipu. Matua, now undergoing annual survey, to sail for Rarotonga on Tuesday. Kaituna reports that she will arrive from New \ork at 6 a.m. on Thursday. King and Queen entertain 2000 boys from nearby camp to tea at Balmoral Castle. Southern potatoes reach new peak, £21 per ton. on Auckland wholesale market. Northcote residents register stroag protest at cessation of vehicular ferry service. Fourteen-year-old Australian girl found in vacant cabin of Aorangi; return to be arranged. Former President of Czechoslovakia given warm welcome on delivering first speech in Britain. Petition by 350 hospital patients protests against abolition of staff heads at | Auckland Hospital.

Two changes made in back division of Auckland Rugby representative side for Hawke's Bay fixture. D. S. C. Conipton only English cricketer to score 2000 rims this season: leads Hammond in averages. Large-scale preparations for planting new season's crop of maize, barlev, oats and potatoes in Hawke's Bay. New Zealand professional runner win won classic Stawell mile, returned to Auckland in Aorangi yesterday. Primary producers in Australia in "'parlous condition," says visiting member of Parliament from Adelaide. Three young Auckland men plan world voyage in auxiliary ketch now being refitted on Auckland waterfront. Ten New Zealand bowlers leave by Aorangi to-day for San Francisco to take part in international tournament. Japanese army spokesman denies all knowledge of air raid in which British steamers and property were destroved. Wheat guarantee in Australia Imminent, according to visiting member of South Australian Parliament; cost , likely to exceed £12,000,000. Reconstruction of interior of Auckland Chief Post Office next year will result in trebling of public "space on mam floor, and large increase in counter accommodation. Striking Glen Afton miners decided this morning to return to work to-moi - wi+fc negotiations in connection with the dispute over the dismissal of elderly worker. Temperance organisations decide to a ', l lnv tf t , i S ation of conditions tHh,?nai PiUby an '"dependent tribunal pledged not to disclose the names of those who supply information. Sales on 'Change to-day were: — Traders Finance, 13/; Dominion Investment, 16/6; National Timber (odd lots), i/9; Electro Zinc (pref.), £% 17/9; i', n %fr P 1 0? IBi B - PreL), 7 per cent. "{?' f u^ klaTld Gas, 16/; Martha! !*/<>; Mount Lyell, £1 s/3.