TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 88, 15 April 1941, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Auckland Weather Forecast:—Fair to fine and cold, with frosts inland.

High water. 10.35 p.m. X.S.W. State elections fixed for May 10. Sunset to-day. 5.57: sunrise to-morrow, G.4(i.

Nazi supply ships bombed off North

Sea coast

( hina studying new pact between Russia nd Japan.

\eiy low .-u-cident toil over Easter holiday period.

Ai t union tor children's playhouse drawn this morning.

Germans claim capture of more forte in eastern Lihva.

Inieiccssoiy service to be lield at Town Hall ou .April 24.

More British and Imperial contingents landed in Greece.

1* roe trench subniai ine chaser brings down Nazi plane. Norwegian warship takes raiding parti to coast or Xonv;n.

Stories of Jugoslav troops' gallantry in first rush c:' Nazi blitz.

I-argc enemy ship ablaze after British bombing attack on Tripoli.

Halle Silassie wishes to raise army to tight anywhere l'<»r Britain.

German patrols repulsed with heavy losses in northern Greece.

Tense stimuli- in Western Desert ats German forces menace Egypt. Hea\y rain cun>scs railway subsidou«*c near Lpper Port Chalmeis station. Soldier who stole £4 belonging to a friend, sent to prison lor three months. pleutiiul. but peas sea roc. with lii?h rates, at city produce markets to-da\ . Governor-General tc. read the lesson at Intercessory service, to be held in Town Hall.

Adolf Hitler Division sustains heavv losses from first contact with British forces.

American flying Fortresses break all records in flight across the Atlantic to Britain.

Increase in amount of betting at autuni i meeting at Auckland Racing Club at tilerehe.

Drafts of men for nest reinforcements to lea\ e ior Papakura and Trentham camps to-morrow.

of bringing theatrical companies to New Zealand duriDg time of war pointed out.

Prism reflectors to be used for the safety of the public at city intersection* and traffic points. Care meet in head-on collision on Great south Koad; driver of one car arrested alter accident.

farmer killed when truck he was drivin-* leaves road and strikes pole at Pleasant Point, Timaru.

, Comprehensive programme of building and alterations in progress at Kotonij railway station.

Cabbage and cauliflower in good eupph but prices higher than last week at eitv markets to-dav.

British bomber limps back home after having its rudder broken in a collision with a German plane.

Over 2000 men to be mobilised on May l for three months' training in various territorial camps. Keen demand for Te Kauwliata grape*-, for which season nearly over, at Auckland city markets to-day.

Measure for creating the maximum of satety in the blackout announced by the Mayor of Auckland.

Charges of stealing £350 and the use of violence in the alleged theft dismissed in Aew Plymouth Court.

. Patiente shortly to be accommodated m 6ingle-atorey wing of the new militarv hospital in the Domain.

Values eased for tomatoes, especially poor quality lines, when city markets reopened for busiuess to-dav.

Conference of the New" Zealand Laliour party adopts resolution urging the Government to stabilise prices and wage?. For making a false statement concerning a crew pass to a wharf constable, a seamen was fined £5 in the Police Court this morning.

Price control system iu Australia opera t ing satisfactorily, states Xew Zealand tr just returned from making investigations on behalf of grocers, drapers and other traders.

Severe weather at Waiouru camp cause* outbreak of sickness among horses. Nearly 500 animals to be transferred to Ngaru.iwahia, and likelihood of units being shifted to another district.

Very little of Australian trade has come under price control, according to secretary of New Zealand Master Grocers' Association, who has been making investigations of system there.

Located and arrested :'fter he had left a city ihotel with £o given him to buy liquor, a farm labourer was to-day, in the Police Court, admitted to probation on a charge of theft of the money.

Church of England members "Democracy or Dictatorship in the Church of England." See "Observer/' April 16. — (Ad.)