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  2. CRICKETER ASTRIDE A BULLOCK

    The English cricketers, who have just concluded a two-day match against a Queensland country team at Gympie, were taken round the district on Sunday. Denis Compton (above) was most interested in a bullock team, and, urged by his colleagues, climbed on the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. Indians Begin Work On Constitution

    NEW DELHI, Dec. 9 (A.A.P.). —The Indian Constituent Assembly met for the first time to-day and after formal proceedings which ...

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  4. RESCUE SHIPS FIGHT GALE

    LONDON, December 9.—In a 70-milean-hour Channel gale, which whipped up 40-feet seas, a destroyer and tugs and lifeboats battled all last night to save a ...

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  5. EMIGRATION AID Minister Warns Company

    CANBERRA, Monday.—The reported formation of a Melbourne company to assist the emigration to Australia of ...

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  6. Development Bans In 1947 Forecast

    Housing and other development in at least 12 substantial areas of the County of Cumberland will be banned tor an indefinite period ...

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  7. HOTEL FIRE IN CANADA 11 People killed

    NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (A.A.P.). —At least 11 people were killed and l8 injured when the Hotel Barry at Saskatoon, in ...

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  8. Close Voting Expected In Upper House

    Voting is expected to be close in the Legislative Council when the vital division is called to-day or to-morrow on the second ...

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  9. CHICKEN POX HOLDS LINER

    While doctors were diagnosing a case of chicken-pox which, it was feared, might have been smallpox, no one was allowed to leave or ...

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  10. Stolen Opium Worth Up To £92,000

    MELBOURNE, Monday.— Opium, for which Chinese smokers would probably pay at least £92,000, has been stolen ...

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  11. ZIONISTS MEET AT BASLE

    LONDON, Dec. 9 (A.A.P.).— The 300 delegates.to the world Zionist conference which opens at Basle to-day are expected to direct ...

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  12. "DUMPING" CHARGE DENIED

    MELBOURNE, Monday,—Mr. Alec Mascl, solicitor for Shelter and Aid, Ltd., denied to-night that the company would be concerned with ...

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  13. SIDKY PASHA'S RESIGNATION

    LONDON, Dec. 9 (A.A.P.).— It is understood that one of the reasons for the resignation of the Prime Minister of Egypt, Ismail ...

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  14. Bedside Wedding For Sick British Seaman

    A sick British seaman, A.B. Robert Wadhams, R.N., who served in the bombardment of Okinawa as a torpedo-man, and Miss Iris ...

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  15. DEATH AFTER COLLISION

    Cecil Robert Ross, 25, of Railway Parade, Annandale, died in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital this morning from injuries received ...

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  16. PERSIAN FORCE ATTACKS

    LONDON, Dec. 9 (A.A.P.).— Persian Government troops are advancing on the north Persian province of Azerbaijan, whose ...

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  17. 'SMALL RISK IN SYDNEY"

    Chances of a disastrous hotel fire in Sydney were very remote because of the extensive precautions taken by the Fire ...

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  18. OLD MANSION DAMAGED

    A 90-year-old Darling Point mansion, now used as a residential, was damaged by fire yesterday. The 15-room house in Darling Point ...

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  19. LINER TO TAKE N.Z. PASSENGERS

    The waiting lists at Sydney and Melbourne shipping companies for passages to New Zealand will be reduced by 420 when the liner ...

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  20. CHIEF SCIENTIST APPOINTED

    LONDON, Dec. 9 (A.A.P.).—Sir Ben Lockspeiser has been appointed to the newly-created post of Chief Scientist to the Ministry of Supply. ...

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  21. NO FEED FOR FOWLS Birds May Be Sold

    Tens of thousands of laying fowls may have to be sold for the table because the N.S.W. railways cannot bring sufficient wheat from ...

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  22. "BRITAIN MUST BE READY"

    LONDON, Dec. 9 (A.A.P).— The Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, told senior British staff ...

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  23. Advertising

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  24. MINE EXPLOSION TRAPS 13

    LONDON, Dec. 9 (A.A.P.).—An explosion caused the roof to cave in over a wide area of the Lowca colliery at Whitehaven (Cumberland) ...

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  25. NOT SATISFIED WITH VOTE

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday.—An admission that he was not completely satisfied with the result of the general election, which ...

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  26. ZONE MERGING IN GERMANY

    BERLIN, Dec. 9 (A.A.P.).— General Pierre Koenig, French Commander-in-Chief in Germany, said France was not interested in ...

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  27. PACIFIC REPORT BY EXPERT

    A report on the reconstruction problems of Pacific administrations in the main islands will be made by Dr. William Stanner, former ...

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  28. BRITISH ACTOR DIVORCED

    LONDON, Dec. 9 (A.A.P.).—Mrs. Ella Annesley Donat, of Buckinghamshire, was to-day granted a decree nisi against Frederick Robert Donat, ...

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  29. PRIEST BECOMES ARCHBISHOP

    PRAGUE, Dec. 9 (A.A.P.).—A 57-year-old Czechoslovakian priest. Dr. Josef Beran, whom the Nazis forced to sweep the streets, has ...

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  30. PROTEST AGAINST MCKELL AS SUCCESSOR TO DUKE

    Members of the New Reformation Group protested at a rally last night against the suggested appointment of the Premier, Mr. McKell, as ...

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  31. '20th Century Princess Has Right To Choose Husband'

    LONDON, Dec. 9 (A.A.P.).— "Whether Princess Elizabeth will marry, when she will marry, and whom she will marry are matters ...

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  32. WOOL MARKET CLOSED FIRM

    Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, when the quantity catalogued totalled 14,254 bales, and the ...

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  33. DROP IN HARVEST

    A harvest of only 14½million bushels of wheat is expected in New South Wales this season. This was announced yesterday by ...

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  34. Large Armies Bar To American Relief

    WASHINGTON. Dec. 9 (A.A.P.). —The Acting Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson in a broadcast announced that after UNRRA was ...

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  35. OFFER TO ACTRESS

    ADELAIDE, Monday. —M.C.A. Artists, Ltd., of Hollywood, has invited Miss Daphne Campbell, a star of "The Overlanders," to make films ...

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  36. VETERANS RE-ENLIST

    Veterans of the war-time R.A.A.F. have provided about half of the enlistments for the Interim Air Force in the last four weeks. ...

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