TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 206, 30 August 1940, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Hish water to-day, 4 p.m. Katapo due at Auckland on Sunda> 5.25: sunrise 10-mono», 6.13. "Worth a Try" art union drawn to-day. Share values higher on Wai] Street today. Waimarino left southern port* for Auckland. Heavy damage done in R.A.F. raid oa Berlin. Silver price* fractionally higher in London to-day. King and Queen drive through Londoa during raid. North Island Motor Union conference ia session to-day. Germany admit* R.A.F. bomb* hittins industrial plant. North Island Motor Union conference continued to-day. Export of manufactured goode maintained in Bradford. Thirteen divorces granted in the Supreme Court to-day. Further widespread raid* on Britain; toil of Nazis again taken. Deputy-Mayor welcomed motor conference delegates this morning. Port Waikalo to arrive here from Lyttelton on Monday evening. criticism of petrol restrictions by N.I.M.U. conference delegate*. _.T.ipant»c Salvation Army *ev<rs connection with London headquarter*. Auckland Stock Exchange a little firmer to-day tiian in early part os week. Territorial-* to start intensified training at many centre* in city an Monday. Principal pri»e in "Worth a Try"' art union goee to Wellington ticketholiler. J Car and service car collide at Takjiiiini this afternoon. Passenger* escape injury. Pan-American Clipper now expected {.» arrive from Noumea to-morrow afternoon. Mcet Producer" Board donates £30,000 of accumulated fund* for purchase of aeroplanes. Trading banks' statement for July reveal* fall in deposit level and lower advance*. Officens and non-commissioned officem at Narrow Neck inspected by officer commanding district. Waiouru workmen demand *0-hour week and higher wages; Cabinet said to be considering demands. Judge of High Court in Australia resign* to contest seat in Federal elections m Labour candidate. New defences "give the toe of England the kick of a mule." eaye news agency. after journalists' tour. Homes for 10,000 British children offered to Government, according to statement by Minister of Internal Affair*. Supplier fined £5 in Police Court te■day on a charge of selling milk containing 7 per cent of added water. | General average of quotations for colonial stocks end consuls in Londoa ■ higher to-day than last week. Due to exceptionally early spring, city j markets over-Mocked with vegetables today; general run of prices lower. Petrol economy essential in interests of defence and conservation of dollar exchange, save Minister of Finance. Constant bombardment of Italians ia Libya by British air and naval forces seriously disrupting Italy's plans for offen- ' sire. Inquest opened into deatii of soldier ia 1 Third Echelon found under a house ia Kinzsland yesterday with shot wound ia head. Pressmen most entiiujaasttc about strength and ingenuity of Britain"* i coastal defencae after visit to Southern Command area. Labourer, described by the police as aa incorrigible, sent to prison to-day for stealing a suit from the front of a Newton shop yesterday. 1 Demand by worker* at Waionra Cunp ' for higher pay and «0-bour -week considered at meeting last night; settlement of dispute announced to-day. Allegation that Government if not wincere in its policy of petrol restrictions and that patriotism is bang exploited made at motorists' conference to-day. Morning sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange were:—New Zealand Insurance, £3 1/; Broken Hill Pronrietiry. £2 4/3; G. J. Coles, £3 3/6; McKendrick {preU, 19/; Bonds, 15/2743-16. 4 p.c_ £102 5/: Amalgamated Brick {Auckland), 1A 44, € p.c, £102 10/: Auckland Gas (10/ paid), 8/6; Hill and Plummer. £1 2/.