TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 225, 21 September 1940, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Budget ol "Cheerio's" in to-night's "Eight o'clock" High ua tor to-day. 10.10 p.m. (.rale over StJ ailts ol dropped. Sale of spirits restricted in Auckland. Waipiata due this afternoon from Wellington. Heavy lieniidii K«sses in airmen over Britain. New Taiipo post office opened by Post-masler-Gem-i al. Magnificent response to "Heart to Heart" appeal. London's rransport problems being cheerfully sinmounted. Further substantial gifts towaids «urcnut for Britain. Sunset to-day. 3.-H5 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow. 5.41 a.m. W alalia delayed at Aucklaud: now due l<> sail on Monday. Minister of Housinjr slightly injured in collision at Huntly. Shattering l>onib explosion wreck houses in Loudon suburbs. Cheoeman Memorial flower chow opened at Auckland Museum. Plans beinsr made for welfare of troops in Britain during winter. Enemy air activity over Buta.il! on Thursday night less intensiveBritish submarine sinks 10.000 Cons German transport off Denmark. Arrangements for concentration of Fourth Reinforcements completed. >*r. Xash defends Government s attitude to petrol restrictions question. \\ estminsrer Roman Catholic Cathedral shaken by bomb: crater in grounds. Accurate bombing by R.A.F. in Africa contrasted with'erratic Italian efforts. Italian <sliij»s set on fire by British bombers: intense raids on supply ports. Fighting in Western Desert costing Italians heavv loss of men and machines. L-nexploded bomb found in London discovered to have been dropped in last war. Japanese Embassy staff in London forced to vacate offices owing to time bomb. Work of War Cabinet "explained by Mr. Hamilton in a .statement issued at Invercanrill. British official circles urp> caution regarding reports of revolt in French Xorth Africa. Matamat-a farmers concerned about Goverment's attitude toward greater farm production. "Auckland Star's" fund for suffering Londoners totals £17,170 on seventh day of appeal. Reserre Bank return shows recovery in sterling exchange funds and increase in Government borrowing. R.A.F. continues raids on German and Channel ports despite bad weather conditions on Thursday night. Thieves entered Druids' Hall in Kewtori this morning, blew open the safe and pot away with £30 in money. Minister of Finance announces that fifth-period schedule for import licenses will be issued next -week. Official communique from Cam» start** that there is no chance in t!he situation in the Western Desert. Since the Germans are taking ®31 tihe food they can from conquered countrias there should be no loosening of the blockade, says London paper. Assurance given that everv penny *übscribed through "Heart to Heart Appeal" will be devoted to relief of distress among ; civilians in London, provincial qnoias i notwithstanding. Following a disturbance in a ship lying [ at Princes wharf early this morning, one member of the crew received wounds on the head while another was arrested and ■ remanded on a charge *>f assault.