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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 221, 17 September 1940, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

I I v.litis on continue. High water tcwiay, 7-45 p.m. Sunset, ~>.43; sunrise to-morrow, 5.47. | Kakapo and Waiana «>ail south u* ni\»m»w. fiie late (Jallery damaged in raids on London. \\ to leave Wellington on Thursday ior Auckland. Italians claim further successes oa bolder. "tirst flight" paasengens arrive bv American Clipper. Majority of German ? planes lost oa >un«lay were bombers. Hawke s Bay airman awarded DieFJyinp Cross. Post Otiice stresses need for secure packing of parcels for troops. W aimarino wil] leave Bluff to-«iay for Auckland and way ports. City Council allocated £475 as subsidies between ten Auckland bands, j _ AN ellinpton decision to increase tram j :aieas on Sundays and holidays. Smashing R.A.I'. attacks on Xazi ship concentrations at Continental ports. Throughout New Zealand 11.343 State liousts completed or under construction. Auckland has 3000 St-.it e liouses in occupation and 1300 under construction. I*illy .Japanese planes raid Chungking, causing i«*w casualties but much damage. _1 ow cr _ board decides to build up reserves oi coal f<»r use at King s wharf ireneratinff station. Auckland poller disqualified for unwitting breach oi new rule durinjr championsliip match. j Officially reported in Berlin that Goering • ]u jot<*d a -luukers plane over London oa Sunday nijrht. j American C li]*j»er passeuser drops wreatih in *ca. on Trij• in memory of prominent {American aviarrix. j Grand total of enemy ? planes shot down J* ver Britain by K.A.F. on Sunday now known to l)e IST. 1 At Orakei the Housing Construction • Department* has 485 sections for the erection oi S;x Frciuli warships. which passed <• il»!viltar oil Friday, hsve now reached Frencl West Africa. Low ikl.tr,j of stjdenta' work subject of c-oniiiient by Professorial Board of Auckland University College. Dairy companies authorised to borrow money from State Advances Corporatioa for new farm finance loan plan. Housing ("onsti i;ction Department soon to call tenders for the construction of additional houses at Mount Roekill. Immediate start to be made on campaign for patriotic funds owing to urgency of assisting air raid sufferers in London. Inquest held into death of trateiwide worker who was injured on August 8 and died on Saturday last in Auckland Hospital. Large scale manoeuvres by Auckland territorials near Auckland on Thursdav and Friday when "enemy raidens"' trill be repulsed. With the construction of additional houses by the State the demand is growing. not lessening, says Minister of Housing. Xew ork paper replies to Mr. Fraser, denying it ever published a report, quoted by enemy radios, th.it Xew Zealand troops had revolted. Minister of Health hopeful tflxat satisfactory arrangements will l>p made between the Government snd the B.M.A. in respect to medical benefits under Social Security Act. Auckland Electric Power Board considers a two-hour trial black-out of Auckland not warranted: estimated cost to the I lx>a.rd of such experiment between £3000 and £3000. At request of Director-General of j Health. Dr. M. H. Watt, special meeting or Auckland Hospital Board called to discuss arrangements for hospital trearment of soldiers who retvrn from war. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:- -British Tobacco, £2 8/; Farmers' Trading. £1 o'3: Xewton King (prcf.l. 11': Stock. 15 '3/40-43. 4 per cent. £ 101 2'fi: South British. £2 10/: Auckland CJas. S''2: Dominion Breweries. £1 II 6: X.Z. Breweries. £1 15': Broken Hill Proprietary. £2 5'9: X.Z. Drug (rights), £1 6 3: Woolworths (Syd.i (cum. div.l, IS': Stock. 1.1 '2/43-46. 4 per cent. £103; Auckland Gas (pref. deb.). £10] 15/. T'nlisted: Xational Tobacco, £1 15/; Seifridge's (X.Z.). 3/9.