TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 123, 27 May 1942, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Auckland Weather Forecast. —Isolated shower or two. otherwise fair to fine. Brownout to-day. 5.30. Rock oyster season opens tomorrow. Sunset to-day, 5.15; sunrise to-morrow. Further decorations for Dominion airTien. High water to-day, 4.36 p.m : to-morrow, 1.5S a.m. Jewellery valued at £435 stolen from sedroom in city hotel. Bitterest fighting of Russian war taking place on Kharkov sector. Signs of pending large-scale invasion of Southern China by Japanese. Late Hcrne Bay resident bequeathes ■ ion each to seven orphanages. Carpenter claims £750 damage; as sequel to fall on State house job. Two airmen killed in mid-air collision between two planes near Welhngton. Appeal by Mayor. Mr. J. A. C. Allum, for citizens to support Liberty Loan. Australia gearing up war production: women replacing men in many riire<nu>.<~. Rubber shortage for three years predicted by United States Senate Committee. Fresh outbreak of harbour vandalism reported on dinehv lockers in Hobson Bay. Soldier and young woman before Police Court to-day for theft. Both were sent to prison. Special police watch being set up to prevent damage being done to air raid trenches. Numbers of R.A.A.F. men returned from overseas service to defend the Commonwealth. Story of Auckland able seaman's gallantry in rescuing wounded officer from torpedoed warship. British withdrawal from Burma before the monsoons considered to be miracle of military operations. Australia requires 318.000 men and women for armed forces and industrv before the end of this year. Demands of private building trade unable to be met because of number of workers on urgent defence construction. Verdict of accidental death returned by coroner to-day at inquest on a nurse cf If), who fell from a balconv of the Cargen Xurses' Hostel. Minister of Mines says absence of miners from work is caused hy susceptibility to seasonal ailments through working in hot or cold places underground. Dressing case which had contained jewellery worth £435 stolen from bedroom of a city hotel yesterday found in porch of St. Patrick's Cathedral early last evening. _ Sales completed on the Auckland Stock exchange to-day:—Auckland Gas. 6/0: Auckland Gas (con.). 2/6: Milne and Choyce (deb. stock). 17/9: Milne and Choyce (6 per cent pref.), £1 2/9: Bonds. In'6's2-55, 4 per cent. £108: Stock lo'l/53-57, 31 per cent. £103 10/: Id/2/4346. 4 per cent, £100 15/; 30'11'48, 4 per cent. £106 10/. Put more apples on your menu and save. Sturmers now from only 5/6 a case at your fruiterer or grocer.(Ad.).