TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 303, 23 December 1941, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Auckland Weather Forecast. —Srattered showers. Temperatures cool and changeable. Sunset. 7.41; sunrise to-morrow. 4.59. High water. 11.26 p.m.: to-morrow. 11.53 a.m. Long list of awards for New Zealand airmen. E.P.S. trial during early hour? this morning. Russian oil production for year reaches high level. Authority to increase fares sought tar taxi-drivers. Russian armies driving new wedge« into German front. Allied mobile columns pressing enemyback toward Beneasi. Russian n ; gh* fighting taking advantage of German weakness. Driliiant surpr.se laid by British patrol deep into Tripolitania. Important progress toward relieving Leningrad made by Russians. Promo" ion of number of well-kna*** regular force officers gazetted. Britons in .Malaya indignant over app»ent weakness of defence system. Hongkong communique reporis ll^atj against Japanese landing parties. Firs' of season's hothouse grapes sold at Auckland city markets to<lay. Yoroshilofl reported to be new Russian Commanoer in-Chief in the Far East. Men for overseas service called on in Gazette notice to report next month. All dessert fruits in season mo", with keen competition at city marke-s to-day. Territorial officers qualify a: Treniliani coir, o for appointment to Expeditionary Force. Most vegetables were dearer at city marts to day owing to keen holiday demand. Mr. Churchill and British mission in Washing.on for conferences with President Roosevelt. I An-.er:csn and Filipino troops more than holding their own against big Japanese landing force. Majority for National party candidate in Bay of Plenty by-election increased by soldiers' votes. No further telephones to be installed in meaniime unless essential to State in lime of emergency. Next draft of men from c-itv area to be mobilised on January 7 for training with Army Tank Brigade. Need for facilities for maternitv care in Wellsford district stressed at meeting of Auckland Hospital Board. . -,? ->"-Z-A.F. losses for year include 43 killed six missing b-lieved kiJ ed and .",0 in mishaps involving 57 n-'rr-raft-N.Z.E.F. private from Papakupa Camp killed, ana three soldier companions and laxiariver injured in motoring accident to-dav. Clad only in his pyjamas and with bare fee*, inspector of police, early this morning cnased and caught a man whom he arrested on a charge of breaking, entering and theft. Safebreakers entered Manurewa Borough Council offices last night and used explosives on the safe, which could not be opened. The burglars vanished before the arrival of the police. Sales completed on the Auckland Stor': Exchange_ to-day:—New Zealand Insur'JF®' £3 o/o (3): Farmers" Auctioneering (£1 paid), 10/; Bvcroft. f Stock. >5/9/57-6° 3i P.C.. £101 2/6: Abraham and K an !V 6 -i, C °!° Sugar. £46 10/: Electrolytic Zinc <pref.). £2 7.1; Taupiri Drainage. 1/4/63. 4j p.c., £104