TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1942, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Auckland weather forecast: Fair to fine and cool with some frosts inland. Brownout to-day, 5.30. Sunset to-day, 5.11; sunrise to-morrow. 7.29 a.m. High water to-dav, 3.5S p.m.; to-mor-row. 4.26 a.m. Hospital Board chairman re-elected for third term of office. Cabbages and swedes sold cheaply at the city markets to-day. Estimates providing for increased levy adopted by Hospital Board. Decisive phase in Libya campaign believed to have been reached. American Air Force chief warns Japan that_ day of reckoning is at hand. Waterfront "seagulls" protest against continued non-admission to union. Women's Royal Naval Service in New Zealand approved by War Cabinet. Advance in prices for hothouse tomatoes at the city fruit auction this morning. Political battle for power raging in Britain centred round the coal industrv. Further big R.A.F. sweep on 150-mile front Over Belgium and Northern France. Hospital Board to hold meeting to discuss relations between medical staff and board. Remarkable defence of Bir Hacheim by Free French forces amazes Axis attackers. High rates paid for few lines of marmalade oranges at the citv marts this morning. Air raid shelters In Auckland are being flooded to some extent through winter conditions. Nothing of importance to report on the Russian front, according to latest communique. Maori soldier sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment for assaulting Maori girl in city last night. Restaurant keepers disclose present difficulties and invite more co-operation from the public. Mayor of Auckland expresses satisfaction with progress of work on Albert Park tunnel scheme. Special Moscow communique says five enemy transports and ten other vessels were sunk last week. 8.8.C. exhortation to French civilians to evacuate coastal area because of danger of pending Allied action. Criticism of the effectiveness of the Auckland Harbour Board's pile wave screen during the gale on May 15 replied to in a report submitted bv the superintendent at a meeting of the board this afternoon. Sales completed on the Auckland Stcok Exchange to-day: Milne and Choyce <deb. stock), odd lot. 17/6; Woolworths (N.Z.), 12/11; South British Insurance, £2 14/9; Northern Steam (con.) (odd lot). 9d.