TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 216, 11 September 1940, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

"Cheerio, Dlirtr!" Use "Star" Eieht o'clock service! High water to-day, 2.20 p.m. Suuset. 5.35; t v-::i:ow. 5.56. Air actavity 'by ir..h sides an Africa. K.A.I-. over Bei !in early TucstJay morning. Much caused in \videf=pre.ad raids on Gcrnianj. Indiscriminate bombing oi London causes much havoc. Contract scheme lor wharf work will l>e introduced to-morrow. Mr. tliurchil] cheeix-d daring visit to <bom ixni a re.is in London. Scores oi aires-ts made in Italy for defeatist and unjialriotic talk. Evacuation of women and children frocn Indo-C-hina frontier towns ordered. Dismantling of stranded Port Bowen under way; special railway line built. Campaign for funds for patriotic purposes to be opened again next month. R.A.K. drop celluloid cards in Germany, seating fire t-o crops, etc. Tar.maki farmer draws constant supply of petroleum from old oil bore on his farm. Levin si.-boo' children offer to daily allowance of milk to assist war effort. Licensas for importation of gas masks and other equipment refused by Customs Department. Kijrhth member of ••Star's" literary and illustrations to go on active service faieweJled to-<lay. at -Mcl)>n.ijJ mine. HutntJy, held stop-woirk meeting this morning and then returned to their homes. AwJiland Carpenters and Joiners" Union elects new secretary; keen iutera-t taken :n elei-tions at annua] meeting. Xeutral oJj.-aer\ers say that results of tiie war of terror on London so far have been mere scratches on the giant frame of Britain's capitaL German authorities; state that ibattsle of London is prelude to battle of Britain and an invasion which will ibe made before the end of the month. Chairman of Auckland Hospital Board considers that Teacher*" Training College at Epsom should be converted into a hospital for returned soldiers. Urgent necessity for hospital accommodation being built for men who would be returning from abroad utreapad by chairman of Audkland Hospital Board. Chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board stated to-day that Health Department proposal to build a nerr •hospital on the Domain for returned solddere had got no further than the "blue print"' stage. Morning sales on the Auckland* stock exchange were:—Commercial Bank Australia. 14/10; Goldsbro-ugh Mort. {odd lot), £1 5/; A.C.1., £1 16/Q; Australian Iron and Steel. £1 6/0; Bycroft. £2 2/; Xew Zealand Newspapers, £1 9/9: Wilsons Getnent, 19/6; Wool worths (Sydney). 18/3; Mount Morgan, 8/: National Bank of A'asia, £11 15/; Farm ens' Auctioneering (A pref.), £1 2/; Farmers' Auctioneering (B pref.}. £1 1/6; Auckland Gas (paid). 8/3; Farmers' Trading. £1 0/3: Woolworths (Sydney), 18/2; Broken Hill South. £1 6/3. Social evening, Auckland Motor Cycle Club. Tuesday. 17th, not Thursday u advertised.—(Ad.)