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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 26 September 1940, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day. ].25 p.m. I Kakapo bar-bound at \\ est port. Berlin radi.. squills R.A.F. raids. One vi Heaviest laitls 011 London of ii ar. Auckland Centcua:y denned unul alter war. Kopara expected to-inoi row from Kast Coast. ; Orphanage street appeal to be held tomorrow. i'ukeko arrived from Wellington this morning. Motor driver fined £23 on "mild" intoxication charge. \\ aipiata leaves to-morrow for Wellington and South. Suns=et to-day. 5.30 p.m.; sunrise to i morrow. 5.33 a.m. R.A.F. hammer Berlin for over two (hours on Tuesday night. Mr. J. A. Lee, M.P.. explains aims of Democratic Labour party. Clipper due to-day; most paasengens continuing by air to Australia. Awarua left for Australia this morning; returns to-morrow afternoon. Australian R.A.F. officer awarded D.F.C. alter gallant action over Britain. Minister announces completed arrangej ments lor issue of local war loan. | Taxation authority critical of Govem- | ment's compulsory loan proposals. J Hench claim To have caused heavy damage in "reprisal raid* on Gibraltar. | Endowment of £2400 to l>e created an musical scholanship fund under control of —uckland University. First Battalion. Auckland Regiment, I now training in Gulf, to march through, city on Saturday. Bolder fighting on 50-mile front in IndoCliina: French determined to resist Japanese ajrzretasion. Hearing continued in Supreme Court of claim by aged Maori widow concerning area of land at Taupo. Chinese newspaper sees in German attempts ro spread war admission of setback in battle of Britain. Deferred "wages in the form of compulsory saving would avoid inflation and benefit workers, says Auckland professor. Compulsory loan proposals should be spread t.r> include workers below incometax level, says Auckland University College professor. American officials regard reports of Tokyo-Berlin pact as trial baloon to test world reaction, especially that in the United States. Compulsory loan is in effect the levying of a special income tax on those who last February paid over £50 income tax. says authority on taxation. Boilermakers L nion takes exception to Auckland Hospital Board chairman's remarks in connection with need for longer hours os work and need for variation of awards. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day: So-ith British. £2 10': F.A.C. (£5). £4: Mount Albert Borough. 1 7'61. £107 10/: Woolworths (Svdnev). IS 6 121-* Stock. 15/3 40-43. 4 p.c.. £ 101 2G~ 15/6/52-55. 4 p.c.. £107: 31 5 '54-58. 4 p.c.. £107 17'6: Takaauna Borounh 1 ""54. 3>i p.c.. £07 15/; Stock. 15/1 '53-57, 3% pr ~ £100 12/6. ,