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  2. SUCCESS CLAIMED

    The success of coalition governments was claimed by the Premier (Mr. B. S. B. Stevens), when he addressed the United Australia Party campaign school ...

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  3. SPRING RACING FORM REVELATIONS

    Yesterday's meeting at Warwick Farm provided the first real trials for horses with engagements in the Epsom and Metropolitan Handicaps, the main double for the spring racing carnival. But it was merely the prelude; the meetings of the next ...

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  4. AT TOC H AREA GUEST NIGHT

    Toc H officials at the guest night. Left to right" Professor H. Tasman Lovell, Mr. A. S. Challen, Mr. Brian Billings. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. STURDY ENGINE

    Remarkable proof of the reliability of the leading British aero engine, the Gipsy Major, four-cylinder, is contained in the announcement of the De Havilland ...

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  6. BRITISH BUDGET

    A similarity between the British and Australian Budgets is seen by the financial Press of London. Special interest also is being taken in ...

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  7. 61 DAYS' TRIP

    Two French scientists, Captain de Bisschop and M. Tatibouet, sailed a catamaran into Table Bay to-day from Sourabaya. The trip occupied 61 days. ...

    Article : 143 words
  8. GROUND TESTS

    Preliminary work on improvements at the Kingsford Smith Aerodrome at Mascot have begun. The Commonwealth Works Director ...

    Article : 170 words
  9. INDUSTRIAL NEWS

    The available working time on the Northern field was reduced by one day during the fortnight, in which the aggregate meetings convened by the ...

    Article : 199 words
  10. "JUNGLE FACTORIES"

    An attack on labour conditions in London was made at the Conference of Youth Trade Unionists by the Secretary (Mr. Lawrence Campbell). The conference, ...

    Article : 156 words
  11. MALNUTRITION

    "Malnutrition, which exists in all countries, is at once a challenge and an opportunity," states the final report of the League of Nations' Committee on ...

    Article : 163 words
  12. DESERT SPREADS

    Mr. E. N. Rateliffe, an officer of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, who has been studying the arid pastoral belt north of Lake Eyre, declared ...

    Article : 163 words
  13. MALA A DANGER

    Although Mala could not defeat Allunga and Talking yesterday, despite his remarkable advantage in the shape of a 10lb allowance, he must still be regarded ...

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  14. POISON GAS

    The Chinese Consul, Dr. Pao, stated on Saturday that he had received cabled information to the effect that in the fighting between the Chinese and ...

    Article : 141 words
  15. £125,000,000 FORTUNE

    Mr. Andrew W. Mellon, former Secretary to the United States Treasury, and later American Ambassador to Great Britain, whose death was reported yesterday, ...

    Article : 102 words
  16. LABOUR SHORTAGE

    Families are leaving Tennant Creek, and the mining companies operating here are faced with the task of importing labour to fill vacancies. ...

    Article : 81 words
  17. INCREASED RATES

    The State Organiser of the Amalgamated Engineers (Mr. T. B. Ward) said on Saturday that his union had succeeded in its claim for increased rates for ...

    Article : 118 words
  18. WATER CONSERVATION

    "The Government could, on the eve of a by-election in the Gwydir electorate, offer to make £8,000,000 available for proposed water conservation in the ...

    Article : 224 words
  19. A GOOD START

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  20. SWORDSMAN KILLED

    A brilliant French swordsman, Rene Monal, was killed in the semi-finals of the fencing championships of the international universities. ...

    Article : 104 words
  21. FRIENDS HELPED

    Friends of Sydney Hird, former Sydney cricketer, who was sentenced last Wednesday to a month's imprisonment, for having failed to pay for his wife's ...

    Article : 70 words
  22. SEASON BEGINS

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 417 words
  23. WOODEN "LUNG"

    An engineer and carpenters at the Toronto Hospital, racing against time, built a wooden "lung" and saved the life of a four-year-old boy who was dying ...

    Article : 78 words
  24. MEAT QUOTAS

    The Australian Associated Press understands that it is impossible to settle the details of the forthcoming year's meat quota before the return of the Chairman ...

    Article : 99 words
  25. TORONTO

    Y.A.L. BOYS.—A Young Australia League concert party visited Toronto during the week-end. The boys travelled in a bus, and reached Toronto at noon on ...

    Article : 324 words
  26. ATLANTIC FLIGHT

    The fastest east to west air crossing of the North Atlantic recorded so far during the present series of commercial survey flights was accomplished to-day by ...

    Article : 80 words
  27. AMERICAN FLOODS

    Flood waters from rain-swollen creeks have isolated villages over a large area, and forced hundreds of families to evacuate their homes. ...

    Article : 59 words
  28. MOTHER'S DEATH

    Mrs. Corcos, a Londoner, fell over a precipitous slope and was killed while searching alone for her son, a Cambridge undergraduate, who set out to climb a ...

    Article : 99 words
  29. PURITY OF MILK

    Following the statement by the Minister for Health (Mr. H. P. FitzSimons) in Parliament during the week, that dairymen whose herds were not ...

    Article : 209 words
  30. HERALD STOP PRESS

    It is announced that Mr. Andrew Mellon bequeathed his entire fortune estimated at between 200,000,000 and 300,000,000 dollars (£50,000,000 and ...

    Article : 70 words
  31. GENERAL CABLE NEWS

    LONDON, August 28.—The week-end will see the opening of the British national soaring contest at the headquarters of the Derbyshire and Lancashire eliding ...

    Article : 60 words
  32. MILITARY HONOURS

    Marshal Demid, Defence Commissar for Outer Mongolia, who died suddenly in a train between Tomsk and Moscow on Friday, was cremated at Moscow to-day. He ...

    Article : 60 words
  33. LAMBTON

    CITIZENS' COMMITTEE.—Mr. W. Murphy presided at a meeting of the Lambton Citizens' Committee, which decided to protest to the Lambton Council ...

    Article : 116 words
  34. Business Boom Predicted

    The United States Chamber of Commeree predicted a business boom, accompanied by the highest level of employment in the nation's history, if ...

    Article : 42 words
  35. Rejoining the Colours

    London, August 28.—The number of army reservists who have availed themselves of the Government's offer to rejoin the Colours is now more than 3100. ...

    Article : 59 words
  36. BRITISH GAS MASKS

    Very satisfactory progress is being made with the Government's organisation for the distribution of an approved type of gas masks which are now being ...

    Article : 66 words
  37. ARTIFICIAL LEG ON CENOTAPH

    Some curious things are done in London, but perhaps the most curious recently was the conduct of a tan who removed his wooden leg and laid it at the foot of ...

    Article : 55 words
  38. FORMER M.P.'s DEATH

    Sir Wilfred Lawson, who was Liberal member of the House of Commons for the Cockermouth Division of Cumberland from 1910 to 1916, has died, aged 74. ...

    Article : 112 words
  39. Seeing England by Taxi

    London, August 28.—Two Auckland visitors, Mr. and Mrs. George Runciman, told a London taxi-driver to drive them round town. Now, after a week, they ...

    Article : 79 words
  40. FAY COMPTON FOR AUSTRALIA

    The English actress, Fay Compton, sailed on the Oronsay for Australia to-day on a theatrical tour, with a full company. Her leading man is Bruno ...

    Article : 35 words
  41. New British Factories

    London, August 28.—During 1936, 551 new factories, giving employment to 53,000 people were opened in time United Kingdom, 261 of which were in the ...

    Article : 29 words
  42. 'Busmen's Appeals Dismissed

    London, August 28.—The Transport Workers' Union dismissed the appeals of seven busmen against the National Executive's disciplinary action in connection ...

    Article : 30 words
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