TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 69, 21 March 1940, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Good Friday to-morrow. High water to-day, 6.2 p.m. Tin prices in Loiidon a little firmer. Sunset to-day, 6.33; sunrise tomorrow, 0.25. Wniana scheduled to sail on SaturKaimiro due at Auckland on Saturday morning. Fruit in demand owimr to approach of Easter. ' Eleven rugs stolen from Grey Lynn factory. Surprise resignation of French Prime Minister. Kaster trading reported to be ~ood bv city retailers. Xazis try to hush iip result of British raid on Sylt. Several coastal cargo boats expected over week-end. Xew regulations gazetted to netting of salmon. ° Silver quoted in London to-day at -'- 11-lfid an ounce. Good Friday to-morrow is most selemn day in Christian year. All arterial routes in 2s T orth Island open for Enster traffic. Auckland Stock Exchange closes for faster vacation until April 1. Auckland provincial golf championship over week-end at Titirangi. Jfnori soldier remanded in Police Court today on manslaughter charge. Russia objects to proposed" Finland--Norway-Sneden defensive alliance. iastor bowling and hard court tenuis championships commence to-morrow. Maori committed for sentence for assaulting elderly man in Cook Street. benes of earthquake shocks disturb residents in various ports of Hawke's Mr. Churchill says Xazi exaggeration of petty raid on Scapa Flow is encourWidespread damage reported to have been done to German (base by Britkk raiders. Eighteen yachts, competing in tworaces to Coroinandel, starting 0 30 a-m to-morrow. • Early fixture to be made by Arbitration Court for -hearing of watersiders' Dominion dispute. — Late shopping to-night, but butchers close at 4.30 p.m. and will be open on Saturday morning. Sentence of seven days' imprisonment passed on man found in half-drunken sleep in his motor car. Indian Congress demands complete freedom beyond orbit of British Imperialism for India. Many yachts and motor toats leave to-night on their Easter cruise, Kawau and Coromandel favourite resorts. Melbourne man appointed country tutor-organiser for Auckland branch o"f the Workers' Educational Association. Hotel booking in Auckland in most cases good, for Easter; one report is that visitors are being diverted to other hotels. ■'- ■ . Reported to Papatoetoe Town Board that drainage system for State houses m district is not satisfactory; pipes being laid.toodeeply;__.,..v. : ,.'•; --: • . .■ . .'. . . Auckland- School Committees' Association, suggests that operation on children for tonsilitis and minor ailments should be free of charge under Social Security' Act. Parents of about 20 children, who have been absenting themselves from West Coast school, to T>e told by Canterbury Education 'Board that further action will be taken unless children resume attendance.' Young labourer, who pleaded guilty to charges of failing to stop and failing to render all practicable assistance to a man knocked down and injured 'by hie car, committed to Supreme Court for sentence.

Sales on the. Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—Bank of New Zealand, £2 1/0; U.K. Manufacturers (2), 5/3; Woohvortlis (X.Z.), 17/0, (Sydney), £1 4/; Wiiihi, 7/1; Broken Hill South, £1 11/: Farmers' Trading (ord.), £1; Gillcspie's Beach (odd lot), 4d.

S.S. Onewa sails for Ostend direct at 0.30 to-morrow, Good Friday.—(Ad.)