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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Sunset to-day, 7.42 pjn. Sunrise to-morrow, 5.22 a.m. High water to-day, 1-59 p.m. • Thirtv-one enlistments at Rutland Street Drill Hall. Auckland Yugoslavs donate £50 to Red Cross Society. Brisk artillery action on Western Front lasts four hours. Twelve killed. 20 injured in level-cross-ing smash in Germany. New Zealand railways show substantial increase in earnings. Norwegian steamer torpedoed, and shelled by enemy U-boat. Lord Willingdon arrives at Wellington by flying-boat to-day. Increase in strawberry and loganberry prices as season nears end. Two boys drowned in tidal creek at Okain'e Bay, Banks Peninsula. Sixty-five members of the House of Commons now serving in Army. Special ships being built by Britain to combat floating mine menace. British steamer mined; crew three hours in open boat before rescue. Auckland pilot has lucky escape when machine crashes at New Plymouth. United Dutch Shipping Company to siisjMjnd services to India and Africa. Greek vessel strikes mine; eleven of crew and British pilot feared drowned. Xew pulping plant for newsprint manufacture to be opened in Hobart. Forty-five thousand Russians reported to be in flight on Salla front, in Finland. Married nurses may be employed by New Zealand hospitals during war period. Plans nearly completed for extension of accommodation at Infirmary in Auckland. Oil boring equipment valued at £100,000 to arrive in New Zealand in April. Assessment Court finds that unworked coal in Huntly district has no rateable value. Proposed United States naval construction authorisation reduced by 500,000,000 dollars. Construction of new bridge over Wairau Stream, Takapuna, approved by Government. W. E. Borah, noted United States senator, critically ill, suffering from cerebra.l haemorrhage. Widespread damage, five killed, many injured, by two terrific explosions at English powder works. Three - soldiers killed, one seriously injured, in accident involving secret instrument in England. Xo South African soldiers being allowed to serve overseas because European war might spread. Death announced of watersider who lay for 27 years with injured neck, result of football accident. Admiralty advice received concerning whereabouts of Aucklander who was prieoner on Admiral Graf Spee. Representative of Archbishop of San Francisco arrived to-day to attend National Eucharistic Congress in Tfcllington. Threat to Pacific countries in event of invasion of Holland commented on by Minister of Health, speaking to-day at Otahuhu. Britain's war-Against Germany not Imperialistic one, states Minister of Health, in addressing railway workers at Otahuhu. Owing to progressive afforestation policy, timber in America will never be cut out, says logging expert on hie way to Hobart. Germany will become increasingly short of aviation gasoline as war proceeds, states American geologist on Monterey; Physical welfare branch of Internal Affairs Department to encourage organisation- of recreation clubs for young people. Nazi 'plane forced down in Belgium last Sunday carried "important and alarming documents," says Belgian Foreign Office spokesman. German ship sinks in Swedkh minefield, which it tried to traverse without pilot; crew 'drifting in open boats through masses of broken ice. Described by the police as a "professional tipster," an elderly man was to-day, in the Police Court, fined £15 for trespassing at EUerslie on January Farm labourer who defrauded a woman in Frankton Junction by falsely representing he was a well known South Island jockey, remanded for sentence until Monday in the Police Court. Statements circulated recently concerning Prime Minister deprecated by Minister of Health and Education when speaking at combined special meeting of L.R.C. and Auckland Trades Council. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were: Huddart Parker, £3 5/; Kaiapoi, 13/1; Dominion Breweries (new issue), £1 12/6; Tooth's, £2 18/British Tobacco, £2 14/; Broken Hill Proprietary (odd lot), £2 15/; Renown (pref.), 2/5; Mount Lyell, £1 13/6 (2)City of Auckland, 15/12/63, £99 15/; South British, £2 10/; Dom. Breweries, £1 13/6* N.Z. Breweries, £1 17/7; Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 15/; Electrolytic Zinc, £3 7/3,* £3 7/6; Farmers' Trading, 17/3; Emperor, 16/6Inscribed Stock, 53-57, 3* per cent, £93