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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 190, 14 August 1939, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day. 6.2 p.m. Sunset. •">. 1 •>; sunrise to-morrow 6.^5. (jlen Eden Town Board by-election to-day. Manukau bar unworkable: breaking a mile out at sea. ,711 no sales tax figures reveal record monthly collection. l urther £100.000 of transport redemption loan to be issued. Hurunui arrived this morning from Liverpool with general cargo. Snowfall reported 011 hills near Auckland for second time this year. Evidence shows tampering with line caused big U.S. railway disaster. Annual general meeting of Auckland Racing Club held this afternoon. Haivkes Bay footballers held up at Taupo with roads blocked by snow. Superintendent of mercantile marine at Auckland to retire at end of month. Hawkes Bay senior and junior Rugbv representatives both beaten by Auckland. Several changer; in English side to plav West Indies in linal cricket Test this week. j housands of Chinese massing Ixl vicinity of Shanghai in preparation for attack. Xew St. \ incent's Home of Compassion in Ponsonby opened bv Minister of Health. .Japanese declare Tokyo talks useless; military representatives returning to Tientsin. Seasonal slackening in business activity shown in latest issue of Abstract of Statist ics. Attack on Dunedin taxi driver results in injuries to woman after ear's crash, over bank. Claim of £2000 damages made in Supreme Court by hawker injured in a street collision. ery satisfactory financial statement placed before Auckland Racing Club at annual meeting. Italian Foreign Minister visfts Hitler; piane to rush him home to report to Mussolini to-night. Steamer Maetsuycker arrived Yesterday morning from Saigon, via Noumea and Norfolk Island. Elderly Devoni>ort woman dies in hospital from injuries received when struck by motor car. Two Auckland University College nominees for 1939 Rhodes Scholarships selected this morning. China embarking on last of resistance; victory in sight, say Marshal Chiang Kai-shek. \\an«anella left Sydney on Saturday afternoon for Auckland and will arrive 011 \\ ednesday morning. Motor ship Xew Zealand Star arrived this morning from Xew- Plymouth for final loading for London. - Thirty passengers killed and 50 injured when crack streamlined U.S. train plunged 30ft into river. Conviction growing in London that Poland itself and not Danzig will be Germany's first objective. Improvements to members' stand forecast in annual statement of president of Auckland Racing Club. Coroner concludes inquest into motor collision at Xew Lynn on June 11, when man and woman were killed. Parked motor car runs away fro.n street in Ponsonby. crashing through iron fence and down high bank. Britain's handing over of four Chinese to Japanese a virtual death warrant, say Chinese official circles. Xew chairman of Auckland University College professorial board announced at meeting of that body this morning. Two Xew South \\ ales Government timber experts visiting Xew Zealand to further relationships in hardwood timber trade. E\ery liorse in Sylvia Park Handicap, to be run at Ellerslie op Saturday, will be bracketed—a most remarkable cixcunicitanee. All oflicers in class I. of Reserve of Officers have received notification that they will be required to undertake training before May 31 next. Applications to raise bus fares owing, to increased petrol tax granted at to-day's meeting of Auckland Metio politan Licensing Authority; increase to operate next Monday. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—Bank of Xew Zealand, £1 19/3; Xational Insurance, lfi/9; Xew Zealand Insurance, £2 12/; Westport, £1 0/9; British Tobacco, £2 11/; Broken Hill Proprietary, £3 S/3. £3 S/H; Consolidated Brick. 8/5; Sanford, •4/; G. J. Coles. £3 18/6.