TABLE talk.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 10, 12 January 1940, Page 1

TABLE talk.

0 g High water to-day, 9.41 p.m. 3 Sunset, 7.44; sunrise to-morrow, 5.15. ~ Xew season's apples increase in supply in Auckland. Big all-round rise in values of securities in London. 2 Rain needed to arrest sharp decline in J. dairy production. t. Scandinavian States now refusing to 2 toe Hitler's line. t- Next Japanese boat, Tokyo Maru, due Auckland March 8. Club cricket championship games 2 resume to-morrow. « London show girls walk out, declaring r costumes too scanty. •f Australia's record wool clip expected •3 to realise £75,000,000. - Auckland bids stirring farewell to t troops of second echelon. Most extensive German air raids over ? Britain since outbreak of war. * Over 1500 more men from Northern Military District now in camp. "\ Record profits of over £7,600,000 r earned by Woolworfrns, London. ~ Centennial rinks bowling champione ship be.ran in Wellington to-day. = Glut of potatoes and vegetables •" general; cheap on Auckland markete. 3 West End team is only Auckland sur- » vivor in Xew Zealand bowling pairs. Noted Auckland Maori leader, well- . known in sporting circles, dies suddenly. Bulk purchase of Australian wheat and flour arranged by British Govern - 9 rneiit. Public inquiry sought by Whakatane _ Paper Mills, Ltd., into Government charges. Danish Pressman reports that Ger- " manv's third big battleship has been - launched. ; Penny postage facilities in Australia * extended to soldiers and persons writing - co them. 3 German steamer, laden with food, 1 sinks after collision with patrol ship it near Kiel. 2 Dr. Benes, former Czech President, ® visits New Zealand High Commissioner 2 in London. French report bringing down two Ger- -- man 'planes behind Allied lines last z. Wednesday. Egypt's Cabinet authorises expendij ture of £1,500,000 on arms, munitions . and 'planes. Young married man sent to prison for stealing from the house where he had - previously been staying. ) Term of Royal Commission set up to t inquire into Glen Afton colliery disaster * extended till February 6. { Prominent police officials from Malaya t are passengers in Roggeveen, which ) arrived at Auckland to-day. Roggeveen, South Pacific Line t steamer from Saigon, arrived here this - morning with 38 passengers. British journal "Aeroplane" reveals secrets of Messerschmitt 110, one of latest German fighting 'planes. , Heavy production in Malayan tin in- ; dustry and new fields being opened up, according to prospector visiting Auckland. ! Sweden will give Finland all possible | material and humanitarian help in collaboration with neutrals, says King Gustav. , Fine of - £5 imposed on labourer who followed and assaulted married woman when she was walking home at 12.30 a.m. to-day. Twenty-five thousand dead, 80,000 injured, 30,000 homes destroyed in Turkish earthquakes, according to official estimate. Dutch liners from the East to Europe being turned back at Genoa, passages being continued overland, states Dutch shipping authority. Mr. J. A. Lee, M.P., supported at meeting of Labour Representation Com- > inittee, which expressed- confidence in : him and in Prime Minister. Two men arrested in a Mount Roskill - yard, with elaborate equipment for steal- ■ ing benzine, while on a midnight raid, J sent to prison for a month. j For obstructing a constable who was arresting a drunken man in Victoria ? Street yesterday, a seaman was to-day * sentenced to a month's imprisonment. ) Three Spitfire fighting 'planes surprise j Heinkel bomber attacking British cargo ships; enemy driven off, with one engine j disabled and smoke pouring from one . wing. Question of licensing of Auckland _ taxis to come up at meeting of Auckr land Metropolitan Licensing Authority 1 early next month; report from princi- - pal operating companies awaited. p Owing to hostilities in Europe, New Zealand and Australia are becoming ] more popular as holiday resorts for 0 residents in the East, according to Gov - 7 ernment official from Malaya on Dutch 2 liner, which arrived at Auckland to- - day. § Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange * to-day were:—National Bank of New 'i Zealand, £2 2/; Farmers' Co-operative, f, pref., 19/6; Kaiapoi, 13/; NZ. - Breweries, fl 17/6; Dental and Medical, - 11/ 6 ; Electrolytic Zinc, pref., £3 7/6; jj Woolworths (Syd.), fl 5/3; Stock, 1946- ). 49 , 4 per cent, £100; Waitemata Countv, 2 31/3/00, £101; 1954-58, 4 per cent, £99 - 15/ (2); South British, £2 9/6; Taranaki Oil Envelopment, 2/1.