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  2. PREMIERS' CONFERENCE

    The Minister for Customs (M. J. E. Fenton) again presided at the Premiers' Conference today. Some of the Premiers expressed the view that ...

    Article : 234 words
  3. EMPIRE GAMES.

    Australians here are very much concerned about the sinking of the Tahiti says Mr Weir manager of the Empire Games athletic team, because ...

    Article : 425 words
  4. SOAKING RAIN.

    For the 12 hours ended at midnight last night, 56 points of rain were recorded. At an early hour this morning it was still steadily falling. ...

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  5. A GRAPHIC STORY.

    Dramatic details of the sinking of the steamer Tahiti are related by the rescued passengers. The stories revealed that the Ventura arrived just ...

    Article : 494 words
  6. TALL SCORING IN FIFTH TEST.

    Australia definitely took the ascendant in the fifth Test match at Kennington Oval yesterday, and at the lunch adjournment were only 34 runs behind England's total, with seven wickets still intact. Prospects of a good first innings lead are particularly bright. ...

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  7. TEST CRICKET.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 116 words
  8. THE PRIME MINISTER.

    The Prime Minister was again confined today to his bed, owing to a severe cold, and was unable to attend the Permiers' Conference ...

    Article : 97 words
  9. METROPOLITAN WATER

    Having exhaustively investigated proposals to increase metropolitan water storages, the Engineer-in-Chief has recommended that the ...

    Article : 121 words
  10. Trip Criticised.

    Mr. Scullin was leaving Australia at a time when his presence was urgently needed here, said Mr. H. S. Gullett, deputy leader of the Federal ...

    Article : 84 words
  11. PRACTICAL ECONOMY.

    Ald. Jolly (Lord Mayor of Brisbane), has set an example in economy by voluntarily reducing his own salary of £1,000 a year by 6 per cent. ...

    Article : 100 words
  12. AIR TRAGEDY.

    Getting out of control while flying above the Brisbane River this afternoon a plane in charge of Pilot Urquhart went into a spin and, ...

    Article : 83 words
  13. SELF-EXECUTION.

    Dean Inge said this afternoon that he believed that every criminal sentenced to death ought to be allowed to perform the sentence upon ...

    Article : 83 words
  14. PRICES OF GROCERIES.

    Members of the Retail Grocers' Association of South Australia will raise the selling prices of all lines or groceries that are increased by ...

    Article : 84 words
  15. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.

    Statistics issued by the Commonwealth Statistician (Mr Chas. Wickens) for the quarter ended December 31, 1929, show that 69 new ...

    Article : 85 words
  16. ILLICIT STILL.

    Following up the clue of an advertising card of a Chinese laundry picked up by chance an astute policeman at Kensington, the police today ...

    Article : 143 words
  17. DEAD GANGSTER.

    Queer documents continue to flow from Jack Zuta's strong box. There was a cheque for 50 dollars which the gangster had cashed for John ...

    Article : 91 words
  18. Lost Mails.

    A radio message was received at Sydney today from the steamer Ventura stating that it expected to arrive at Pago Pago with the Tahiti's ...

    Article : 67 words
  19. COMMERCIAL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 135 words
  20. THE WHEAT POSITION.

    That there should be a special session of Federal Parliament to consider the wheat position was a resolution agreed to by a meeting of ...

    Article : 125 words
  21. ANOTHER "RETIREMENT."

    W. H. Ponsford stated in the dressing room just before he began his innings today, according to "The News Chronicle" that when he sailed ...

    Article : 49 words
  22. DISASTROUS COLLISION.

    Owing to a motor car colliding with a Chinese market gardener's wagon in Victoria street, East Melbourne today, the occupants of the car were ...

    Article : 91 words
  23. £800 MISSING.

    When the steamer Maunganui ar rived at Sydney this morning from Wellington, a passenger, Henry Ballantyne, informed, the police that he ...

    Article : 60 words
  24. FAMILY WIPED OUT.

    "Don't enter this room. The sight will be too awful," read a notice which a maid discovered on the door of the bedroom of her employer ...

    Article : 64 words
  25. HOCKEY CARNIVAL.

    In the second round of the country carnival, played today, Port Pirie defeated Murray Bridge, two goals to one. Dora Rieschiek hit the two goals ...

    Article : 37 words
  26. AMERICAN DROUGHT.

    The drought has caused the River Mississippi to fade away to the lowest level for 100 years. A dusty trail of sand bars marks the former ...

    Article : 50 words
  27. METAL MARKETS

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 134 words
  28. Stolen Bank Funds.

    Ernest L. Smith, 32, a book clerk of Surry Hills, Melbourne, who had been convicted of stealing £665 while a servant of the E. S. and A. Bank was ...

    Article : 46 words
  29. VICTORIAN RAILWAYS.

    At a conference of the Australian Railways Union today, a motion was passed to the effect that a united front would be presented to an ...

    Article : 64 words
  30. AUSTRAL THEATRE.

    Put on your asbestos rimmed eye glasses when you take a peek at some of the more scorching scenes in Raoul Walsh's successor to "The ...

    Article : 151 words
  31. SEVENTH MINISTER.

    Ministers of the Grown spent a great deal of time in travelling all over the country to lay foundation stones and open schools, declared the ...

    Article : 133 words
  32. Welfare Bureau.

    Following a recommendation from a meeting convened by Brig-Gen. Price-Weir, the Government has agreed to establish a welfare bureau for ...

    Article : 67 words
  33. Cigarette Consumption.

    Cigarette consumption in America is increasing steadily, at the expense of cigars and pipes. The earnings of the four largest tobacco companies ...

    Article : 50 words
  34. PERSONAL.

    Mr. Robert A. Lowry, a former well known journalist, and for many years secretary of the B.A.W.R.A. died in Melbourne yesterday, after a ...

    Article : 42 words
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