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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 176, 26 July 1940, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day. 11.58 p.m. Sunset. .1.1; sunrise to-morrow, 6.53. Bradford busy executing Government, rders. Tin prices in London recover again o-day. Xe>v city valuer appointed in Auckland. Business on Auckland Stock Exchange ontinues quiet. Auckland lawyer retires after 55 rears in pnu-riee. Estimated 20 j>er <-ent drop in the Italian wheat crop. Chatham Cup provincial final aBamilton to-morrow. Use of motor horns to be prohibited between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. Chairman of Auckland Harbour Board lied suddenly this morning. Large number of Auckland recruits ailed up for air force duty. Sitting of the Compensation Court in Auckland to open on August 20. Monterey due from Sydney to-morrow vith 272 bags of mail for Dominion. Share indices for both London and iVall Street show marked rise to-day. Heavy supplies of cabbage arid caulilovver on city auction markets to-day. French liner taking refugees back to France from Britain, torpedoed by S'azis. American magazine survey shows opinion of United States public towards the war. Port Waikato, sheltering on coast, is ?xpected here to-morrow or on Sunday morning. Several notable persons among those wounded given in latest War Office casualty list. United States Assistant Secretary for War resigns, and ic offered new post in the Administration. Arrangements in Britain to give respite for workers in munition factories, one day in seven. Proposed powers for Australian Director-General of Information over tlie Press drastically reduced. Three Auckland Rugby representative teams in action to-morrow —at Xapier, Pukekohe and Eden Park. Transport Board calls conference for next Tuesday morning to discuss peak loading problem on trams. Eighteen employees of rubber company f'ned £10 each on charges of theft at Voliee Court this morning. Trail of blood left by thieves in city r>p last night after they had unsuc- < i<sfully attacked the safe. Clansman, delayed by bad weather, will make port from Tauranga to-night and leave again to-morrow. Possibility of L»t Battalion, Auckland Regiment, being in camp on Epsom ! showgrounds during September. Virtual embargo imposed on U.S. 1 scrap metal; Japan bought over 2,000,000 tons of metal last year. Auckland R.S.A. appeals for more men for Class 11.. Xational Military Reserve, -to serve in Auckland Fortress' Battalion! The summing up of the judge in the Waikino murder trial was addressed to the jury to-day in the Supreme Court. Baffin bomber from Whenuapa*. forced to land in gale at Kerikeri, and anchored for the night, escapes damage. Otago University forced to limit numbers of second-year - medical students, owing to extraordinary increase in rolls. Tax deductions from board allowances for domestics and farm labourers doubled as result of National Securitv Tax. Order placed for total of 335 training planes for R.X.Z.A.F., including over 100 American Harvard two-seater monoplanes. Continuance of bad weather delays Aotearoa further, but conditions are improving and trip is expected to eventuate to-morrow. Xoted war comedian, who entertained Xew Zealand troop concentrations within sound of guns in France, died to-day after loqg illness. Magistrate issues warning that if there is continuance of theft by employee®. penalty will l>e imprisonment, not probation or fine. United States upholds policy of keeping American tankers in the Western Hemisphere; charters for vessels to go to Japan and Spain refused. "There has been some clever ridinjr," states executive member of Xew Zealand Racing Conference in predictirg ctrict >u|>ervisioii of jockeys soon. Burglars' "blitzkrieg"' last night, nine premises—shops, offices, a big warehouse and a post office—being entered in city and the largest number of 1 crimes reported to the police in any one night for many months. Morning sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange were:—Xational Electrical. Auckland Gas, 5 per cent pcrpet. f-tock, £100; Bank of Xew Zealand. £2 | 0/3: South British Insurance, £2 7/('.; j \\ ilsons Cement. 18/: Worksop Mininn. |3id. !' = — —