TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 189, 12 August 1939, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day 3.r>o p.m. Sunset, 5.13 p.m.; sunrise to-morrow, C.oS a.m. Hamilton taxi drivers stage lightning strike. Woman dies under anaesthetic in Dunedin. Fifty more trained English artisans arrive at Wellington. Doctors issue fresh statement regarding maternity benefits. Thirty men at Martha mine. Waihi. receive notice of dismissal. Old Marama not scrapped in China— now hospital ship in East. American racing driver sets new speed record over 1000 mile course. K.A.F. bomber crashes on high tension cable, two men being killed. Incendiarism suspected cause of destruction of Napier school by lire. Urgent credits required to enable potatoes to be imported from I**-itie Coast. Prominent American publisher charged with 5,300.000 dollars income tax evasion. Nine men killed when United States Army bomber crashed in flames while taking off. Wellington retailer holds rising eosA of living to be cause for increased sales of margarine. Consumers' League is undertaking investigation of complaints regarding price, increases. Military training camp to accommodate about 6000 men to be established near Auckland. Lives of passengers in blazing British airliner 3000 feet above earth saved by resource of pilot. Disappointment that there are no live Maoris at Xew Zealand pavilion in New York World Fair. New Zealand Star will arrive on Monday morning from Xew Plymouth for final London loading. j Mayor of Hastings to be Xew Zealand delegate to International Rugby Conference in London in December. Hurunui advises that she is meeting heavy weather and will not arrive from Liverpool until midnight to-morrow. Aotearoa's historic England-Auckland flight will probably start on Tuesday; flying-boat expected here on Sunday, August 27. England s Xo. 1 woman tennis player soundly beaten by Sarah Fabyan" in j American tennis tourney. Members of medical profession in Auckland reticent regarding new plan about medical services. Victory over Cuba brings Australia step nearer Davis Cup:' inter zone, final against Yugoslavia next, i Safebreakers secured £18 in cash lan I night when they blew the strongroom in a Morningside timber merchants' ; office.

on 'Change to-day were:--nonunion Breweries. All 15/; Morts Dock. 16/4: Unlisted—Taranaki Oil Development, 2/1.

Orders runnitffr into some hundreds of tons of potatoes have been placed with Californiait firms in anticipation of credits being made available bv Reserve Bank.

General manager of railways anil other oflieials to confer with Hamilton Borough Council officials on Monday regarding improvements to the railwav facilities, under a £6«S,000 scheme.

Social survey in Auckland district re. veaU that city families are feeling tinpinch of the rising cost of living, and country housewives want more modern equipment in the homes and annual holidays. Kelleway's Bargain Furnishings.—3o Wilton samples, 54 x 27. 6/11 each: 27in Wilton runner, 8/11 yd; D.-bed kapok satin quilts, 16/11.—Newmarket.—(Ad). Kelleway's Bargain Furnishings.—3ft kapok mattress, tufted only. 19/11; pennine Onehunga blankets, single 22/6, double 29/6 pair.—Newmarket.— (Ad). Yes! We make blinds, all kfwis. Also squabs, hall cushions, launch and caravan cushions; remake bedding, etc. Get a price from Kelleway's—Newmarket.—Ad.