TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 236, 4 October 1940, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High irator io-dar, 9.36 p.m. Manposa arrives from Sydney. Karepo sails to-day for Westport. I of landing at Dakar revealed. 1 Awarua makes tecord flifrht to Sydney. I Russian troops mass on German border. (.'lipper on rcti rn flight to San Frani isio. Question of prison routine raised ia House. Tension on Thailand-Indo-China border report e<l. Excess profits tax scheme explained hv Minister. Port Waikato transferred to West C'oasl tiauo. SeanJj for prison escapees continued over wide area. Suivsvt to-day. 627 p.m.; eunrise tonioiTow. .i.ol a.m. Search for missing airmen still coatinuinj; iiy land and air. K.A.F. atta<-kcd Berlin for over an bour carlj vesiei-day morning. Wai ma ii no loaves to-night for Wellington an<i southern jk>H*. A ink la n<l poli«- work unsparingly to tratk down prison escaj«H*. •Tajwiies. navfl] foi<«- andiors off Weihai-■w<-i. Chinese island ieased to Britain. ,^,' r - <-I'aniUcrlain resijnis irom War ( ai'inot an<l leadership ol Conservative party. Watc-hlin Line motor ship Tort Waikato Io up essential service on West Coast. Mr. Churchill likely to miceeed Mr. Cham bet lain as head oi the Conservative party. North and South Island Motor Unions «n:e Government to allow double ration of petrol. I -S.A. resumes talks with Soviet - attempt* to persuade Russia not to »sn part with -lapan. SiKvcssful experiment in organisiiig club lor Auckland boys who came before Children's Court. British Navy scours Mediterranean for Italian Fleet, but fails to come to action; eijoni} si urries to base. Scheme for maintaining efficiency of territorials who have already undergone intensive training outlined by Minister of Defence. Responsibilities of Auckland Provincial Patriotic Fund outlined in statement issued by standing committee of Auckland Patriotic Council. Further acknowledgment of late donations to the "Heart to Heart" appeal for distressed Londoners will be made in the "Star"' to-morrow. Xew units of Territorial Force being formed in accordance with expansion programme decided on some time ago, states Minister of Defence. Soldier pensioner admitted to Hospital with two knife wounds in chest died last evening. An inquest was opened to-day and adjourned. Tiie four prisoners who escaped from the Auckland Prison on Tuesday night are still at liberty. Xo fresh developments reported to-day. City firm fined for breach of the Price Stabilisation Emergency Regulations. A plea that the offence was the result of inadvertence was accepted by the magistrate. Medical examination for Air Force cecniits included in the ballot to be deferred; no announcement yet as to whether they will be required for territorial training. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange were: Auckland Gas, 8/3, (con.), 3/1; A.C.1., £1 18 6; Commonwealth Bonds. 15/9/47. 4 per cent, £105: Xew Zealand Drug, rights. £1 7/3; Mount RoekilL 30/9/55, £104 10/.