TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 102, 1 May 1940, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day. 2.11. Teachers" ist ? announced. Six oandi'Jates for Auckland West. Sunset. 5.7; sunrise to-morrow, »<.30. Two British trawlers sunk l»v bonihs. Nominations close for Auckland West scat. Kakajio to sail for Wellington tomorrow. Enlistments in the city yesterday totalled 25. Tramway deadlock no nearer settle-* ment to-day. Britain and Russia open trade talk negotiations. Two British submarines feared lost; long overdue. National party not contesting Auckland West by-election. Britain as precaution diverting shippins from Mediterranean. No Nen Zealand Hockey Shield games to lie played this season. Disc intent in Nazi-seized territory growing; war losses hidden. Claim for compensation by youth injured in woollen null fails. Good demand for larger yarding of ox lieef at Wcstfield sale to-day. Waimarino left Wellington last night, due here late to-morrow night. Kccord shipment of oranges arrived from the Islands this afternoon. Case for married women teachers examined by Auckland Education Board. As result of slow running of city trams seven cars caught fire yesterday. New examination vessel to arrive in Auckland from Wellington next weekend. Several changes in portfolios contained in new Cabinet, but personnel unaltered. Export surplus of over £14.000.000 shown in overseas trade figures for 12 months. Australia and Singapore taken under U.S.A. "protection," according to Nazi accounts. Hungary issues grave warning to Slovakia about ill-treatment of minorities. Communist International warns that war may spread to Balkans, Near East and Pacific. Norwegian superintendent tells of appalling bombing of hospital ship by Nazi airmen. Italy is allied to Germany, says Rome paper in reply to broadcast of Australian Prime Minister. Canberra Maru now scheduled to sail for Wellington and Lyrtelton at 5 o'clock this afternoon. Total of 170 more students passed matriculation as result of correction of errors in arithmetic papers. Pedestrian who -was struck by lorry in Onehunga yesterday afternoon, died last night from her injuries. No easy task to prevent junction of invading Germans with defenders of Tmndheim. says "The Times." Satisfaction with progress of swimming instruction in schools expressed by Auckland Education Board. Australian Government ordered sale of all stocks held in certain American companies: idea to conserve exchange. Comment on tram way men's wages schedules made by representatives of men and chairman of Transport Board. Former superintending engineer of Public Works dies of exhaustion and exposure in Wellington after being lost on long walk. Further instances gi*«en of inconvenience being caused members of the public as result of members of Trami ways Union carrying on "safety first" ; policy. X-ray examinations of Third Echelon recruits delayed last evening on account of tramway "go slow" policy; only 88 r examined, compared with 120 on other . evenings. Clansman further delayed at Hokia- • nga; exj>ected to leave at 11 «'clock \ this morning, due at Onehunga tomorrow morning, and to sail for New Plymouth at noon. Morning sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—Pukemiro, 16/; Consolidated Brick, 9/9; Newton King (prc.f. 1. 10/: Wright Stephenson fpref.}, £1: Lewis Eady (pref.), IS/; M.K. Manu- ' factrurers. 6/; Stock. 15/2/43-46, 4 per cent. £103 5/; Auckland Harbour Board, 9/7/59, 4} per cent, £107; Auckland City, 1/1/44-59, 4 J per cent, £103.