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  2. WAR GAS.

    Professor H. Whitridge Davies, professor of Physiology at Sydney University, said in a lecture yesterday that the percentage of gas victims to the ...

    Article : 314 words
  3. FINE WEATHER

    Traces of the recent cyclone caused a number of showers yesterday, but the rain was confined to the coast, chiefly south from Sydney. ...

    Article : 408 words
  4. SIR HENRY GULLETT.

    Sir Henry Gullett, in the House of Representatives to-night, challenged the Federal Opposition to declare its policy on banking, defence and Imperial relations. The only answer he received was a derisive shout from the ...

    Article : 117 words
  5. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST FURTHER FLOODING.

    Because of the heavy rain of the last few days, workmen had to dig a channel from Lake Illawarra to the ocean to relieve the burden on the lake. They are shown digging the channel at Windang Beach. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. LABOUR AND 40-HOUR WEEK.

    The need for reform of the Senate electoral system was urged by Mr. McEwen (U.C.P., Vic.) when the debate was resumed. ...

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  7. RETAIL TRADERS' PRESIDENT.

    At a meeting of the council of the Retail Traders' Association of New South Wales yesterday Sir Sydney Snow was elected president for the ensuing year. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. GOVERNOR PHILLIP.

    Speakers at a meeting at North Sydney last night, which dealt with arrangements for the 150th anniversary celebrations condemned the proposal to bring the remains of Governor ...

    Article : 118 words
  9. KING LEOPOLD OF THE BELGIANS.

    It is understood that during the audience which King Leopold of the Belgians gave to the Australian Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons), the King said ...

    Article : 245 words
  10. FORGERY CHARGE.

    In committing Arthur John Swain, 22, for trial on a charge of forging an Intermediate Examination Certificate, Mr. Soane, S.M., at the Newcastle ...

    Article : 283 words
  11. FRENCH MINISTRY.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 136 words
  12. LABOUR HOLIDAY.

    Six thousand men and women employees walked out of 17 plants at Warren (Ohio) yesterday, when the Committee for Industrial Organisation ...

    Article : 204 words
  13. MAN SHOT IN HEAD.

    The Phillip-street police yesterday identified the man who was found fatally injured with a bullet wound in his head at Wynyard railway station on Wednesday as Terence Leslie ...

    Article : 46 words
  14. CONTRACT BRIDGE.

    Play in the concluding round of the teams-of-four championship brought two strong teams into competition at the Sydney Bridge Club last night. The result may have some ...

    Article : 154 words
  15. THE CALL-UP.

    A call-up for employment is announced to-day. Details are published on page 18, columns 6 and 7. ...

    Article : 24 words
  16. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 229 words
  17. DUKE OF WINDSOR'S 43rd BIRTHDAY.

    Masses of flowers from Vienna and a shoal of telegrams from England and other parts of th[?] world were received by the Duke of Windsor on his 43rd birthday. ...

    Article : 91 words
  18. MINISTERS' BROADCAST.

    A complaint that Federal Ministers proposed to broadcast speeches of a political character over the national network was made by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Curtin). ...

    Article : 266 words
  19. KIDNAPPING CHARGE.

    Ellis Parker, a New Jersey detective, and his son, Ellis Parker, junior, who were indicted in April, 1936, on a charge of kidnapping Paul Wendel, were found guilty at Newark (New ...

    Article : 131 words
  20. MERCILESS PURGE.

    The correspondent of "The Times" at Riga says: "The merciless industrial purge is being continued. "The arrests and dismissals in the past week ...

    Article : 71 words
  21. FRONTIER FIGHTING.

    Seven British troops were killed and 35 wounded during an advance in difficult country on the North-west Frontier. The tribesmen suffered heavily from attacks ...

    Article : 45 words
  22. £2,500,000 GIFT.

    Mr. Starling Childs, a New York banker, has given 10,000,000 dollars (£Aust.2,500,000) to Yale University for the creation of a research foundation to seek a cure for cancer. ...

    Article : 39 words
  23. N.Z. IRONSANDS.

    The Duffield Iron Corporation, Ltd., or London, manufacturers of iron by low temperature reduction processes, claims that it has succeeded in producing economically, by its ...

    Article : 147 words
  24. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 238 words
  25. IN THE SENATE.

    The leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Collings) vigorously opposed the principle of an Interstate Commission upon the resumption to-day of the second reading ...

    Article : 560 words
  26. YOUTHS SIGN ON CAP PILAR.

    Roy Walker (left), 18, of Ramsgate, and Jack Riordan, 19, of Sans Souci, who are seeking adventure on the Cap Pilar. The two Sydney boys have joined the crew of the barquentine and will continue the second half of a world tour with Captain A. Seligman. The Cap Pilar ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 60 words
  27. MEXICAN RAILWAYS.

    A presidential decree has been published expropriating the national railways, in which the Government holds a majority interest. The remainder of the stock is privately held ...

    Article : 71 words
  28. DIAMOND "RING."

    A Federal Grand Jury has indicted 55 persons, including 13 women, who, it is alleged, comprise the largest and most elaborate diamond smuggling ring which has ever operated ...

    Article : 93 words
  29. EX-SOLDIERS BLOCK TRAFFIC.

    Hundreds of ex-servicemen lay down in parallel lines extending across the road outside the Royal Palace and blocked all traffic during their demonstration against the ...

    Article : 138 words
  30. JAPAN'S INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY

    The War Ministry has submitted to the Cabinet a plan for trebling Japan's industrial capacity, at a cost of £525,000,000, extending from 1938 to 1943. ...

    Article : 71 words
  31. HIGHER PRIZE-MONEY.

    The considerable advance that racing has made in recent months as a result of legislation effectively closing city betting shops, is shown by increased prize-money being offered ...

    Article : 101 words
  32. WOMAN WINS

    A by-election for the Hemel Hempstead (Herts) seat in the House of Commons[?] rendered vacant by the elevation to the peerage of Sir John Davidson, former Chancellor of ...

    Article : 96 words
  33. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 246 words
  34. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Gold was quoted to-day at £7/0/4½ an ounce fine, compared with £7/0/5 yesterday. SIR ROBERT GARRAN HONOURED. The King granted an audience to-day to ...

    Article : 200 words
  35. ROTARY CONFERENCE.

    The International Rotary Conference at Nice designated Mr. Burgess Watt[?] of Hobart as governor-elect of the Sixty-fifth District and Sir Robert Garran, of Canberra, as ...

    Article : 58 words
  36. NAPIER HOSPITAL.

    Questioned at the Napier Hospital inquiry to-day, the medical superintendent (Dr. Foley) said that the board had not actively obstructed any of his requests, but had economised ...

    Article : 62 words
  37. RELIGIOUS FILMS.

    Lord Tyrrell, president of the British Board of Film Censors, in a speech to cinema exhibitors at Harrogate, described the cinema as unquestionably the cleanest form of ...

    Article : 93 words
  38. END OF FEDERAL SESSION

    Proposals that the Federal session should end to-morrow night or early on Saturday morning, were vetoed at a joint meeting of the Ministerial parties to-night. ...

    Article : 76 words
  39. PACIFIC PACT PLAN.

    When asked what steps the Government proposed to take to follow up the Pacific pact proposal of the Australian Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons), the Foreign Secretary (Mr. Eden) said ...

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  40. MR. S. J. STEPHENS RETIRES.

    Mr. S. J. Stephens, who has retired from the position of Deputy Public Trustee, after 47 years' service, was entertained at a dinner dance on Wednesday night by the staff of ...

    Article : 53 words
  41. SUBURBAN AND COUNTRY PICTURE THEATRES.

    Programmes of Suburban and Country [?] Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertising Column. ...

    Article : 24 words
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