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  2. FLOUR TAX.

    Though no definite decision has yet been reached, it is anticipated that the proposal to impose a sales tax of £6 a ton on flour, to assist the wheatgrowing industry, will be ...

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  3. THE SENATE

    An interesting position has arisen in the Federal Parliament as a result of the Senate's decision to insist on its requests for lower duties on galvanised iron and dates. ...

    Article : 166 words
  4. STATE FINANCES.

    The State [?]nancial returns for the four months of the present financial year to October 31 are regarded by Ministers as very satisfactory. The expenditure exceeded the reven[?]e ...

    Article : 213 words
  5. TENNIS PLAYERS.

    Mr. G. P. Hughes, the captain of the English tennis team, arrived in Sydney yesterday by the Orford Standing more than 5ft 11in and radiating good fellowship. Hughes should ...

    Article : 556 words
  6. JAPANESE BUYING.

    Mr. T. Furukawa, manager of the Japanese Government woollen mills in Tokyo, who arrived in Sydney yesterday by the Kamo Maru, said that there was no reason why ...

    Article : 442 words
  7. CUBAN REVOLT.

    Revolt has again flared up in Cuba— just two months since the rebellion which established President San Martin in power. After heavy flighting loyalist ...

    Article : 271 words
  8. DISARMAMENT.

    The text of a revised draft disarmament convention has been announced at Geneva It embodies recommendations [?]upplied since the first draft was prepared in June, ...

    Article : 375 words
  9. ASSASSINATED.

    King Nadir Shah of Afghanistan was assassinated yesterday afternoon. The information was received in Calcutta at 3.15 o'clock this morning by ...

    Article : 258 words
  10. N.Z. BUDGET.

    An estimated deficit for the current year of £2,406,000 less than was expected at the beginning of the year was the most noteworthy feature of the Budget delivered in the House ...

    Article : 276 words
  11. BRAVE AUSTRALIAN.

    A previously unrecounted story of the heroism of a young Australian naval officer who volunteered for almost certain death, was related by Captain Selwyn Day in an address ...

    Article : 298 words
  12. UNITED STATES.

    The Financial Editor of the New York "Evening Post" says:—"The Department of Agriculture's cotton crop report, indicating on November 1 a yield of 13,100,000 bales ...

    Article : 526 words
  13. RELIEF WORKERS.

    Trouble occurred among relief workers at Punchbowl yesterday, when 38 men were dismissed by the Public Works Department for taking time off for a "smoke-oh" during ...

    Article : 166 words
  14. GERMANY.

    The Berlin correspondent of the British United Press says that, as the Nazi party will be the only party contesting Sunday's general election, the sole method of voting against the ...

    Article : 244 words
  15. AERIAL ARMADA.

    A French aerial armada, consisting of 30 ordinary military service machines, and commanded by General Vulliemin and 53 officers and non-commissioned officers, left Istr[?]s ...

    Article : 107 words
  16. LONGEST BRIDGE.

    Particulars of what will be the longest bridge in the world, at present being built over the lower Zambezi River in the wilds of Portuguese East Africa, were brought to Sydney yesterday ...

    Article : 345 words
  17. ALLEGED ASSAULT

    Constable Gordon Cameron Heaslip Sto[?]t denied, in the Supreme Court to-day, that he had assaulted Tommy Dodd, an aboriginal. The Borroloola inquiry, he alleged, was held ...

    Article : 284 words
  18. INTEREST RATES.

    The chairman of the Commonwealth Bank Board (Sir Robert Gibson) announced to-day that at the meeting of the board just concluded it had been decided that, until further ...

    Article : 135 words
  19. ITALIAN SHIPS.

    "I believe that everyone is shocked at South Africa's subsidy to Italian sh[?]s," said Sir Alan Anderson, chairman of the Orient Line of Steamers in a speech at Southampton. "If ...

    Article : 180 words
  20. CHARGE OF MURDER.

    The District Coroner (Mr. H. R. White) found that the death of Ernest Harry Stockwell, 50, a printer, and a stranger to the district, which occurred in the Mildura ...

    Article : 278 words
  21. UNEMPLOYMENT.

    The text has been issued of the Government's long-expected. Unemployment Insurance Bill, affecting 16,000,000 men, women, and children between the ages of 16 and 65 ...

    Article : 399 words
  22. PEARLING INDUSTRY.

    The pearling industry at Broome (W.A.), has fallen upon bad times, the Rev. S. R. W. Richardson told members of the Legacy Club at their luncheon at David Jones' yesterday. ...

    Article : 282 words
  23. NAVAL OFFICER

    Temporary Engineer-Commander Charles Marchant, of H.M.S. Philomel, who was engineer-officer in charge of the Auckland Naval Base, was convicted to-day by a court martial ...

    Article : 92 words
  24. RAIN IN NORTH.

    During yesterday, the Macintyre River commenced to fall, and reports last night from Boggabilla and Yetman indicated that, although more water was expected to come down ...

    Article : 341 words
  25. DAIRY PRODUCTS.

    "I am more than ever convinced that dairy imports should be regulated." said Mr. Thomas Baxter, who has just taken up the chairmanship of the new Milk Board, in an interview ...

    Article : 332 words
  26. BETTING DEBTS.

    When the hearing of the action against eight bookmakers for £20,000 damages, for alleged conspiracy and malicious prosecution, was resumed. Mr. Maxwell, K.C., senior ...

    Article : 228 words
  27. MARTIN-PLACE.

    A protest against the proposal of the City Council to refer the question of the Martin[?] place rebuilding scheme to the Town Planning Institute of London for advice was made at ...

    Article : 381 words
  28. INSUBORDINATION.

    The Australian Press Association understands that there has been some insubordination on the destroyer flotilla proceeding to Australia owing to the lower-paid English ...

    Article : 121 words
  29. INJURED DROVER.

    Albert Perkins, of Morven, drover of a mob of cattle from Morven to Deepwater, was drafting them on Mrs. Cowley's property, Rock Abbey, when his horse fell and rolled on him. ...

    Article : 111 words
  30. SYDNEY'S FESTIVAL

    Mr. D G. Macdougall, organising secretary of the Citizens of Sydney Organising Committee, who accompanied the Sydney delegation which met the Centenary Council this ...

    Article : 177 words
  31. CITY OFFICE RAIDED.

    The police have recently received complaints from city grocers that they have been visited by men whom, they allege, induced them to subscribe for shares in a business as ...

    Article : 130 words
  32. THE PRINCESS ROYAL.

    A bulletin issued to-night states that the Princess Royal (Princess Mary), who underwent an operation for appendicitis yesterday, passed a quiet day, and is comfortable this ...

    Article : 105 words
  33. INDIAN CRIMES.

    A ghastly crime is reported in a village near [?]palyam, in Hyderabad State, where five brothers were burned alive by a mob of fren[?] villagers. ...

    Article : 185 words
  34. DETECTIVE AND PRISONER.

    Special precautions were taken by the police yesterday to prevent certain persons interviewing a prisoner who had been brought from South Africa on the Anchises by ...

    Article : 224 words
  35. STOVE EXPLOSION.

    A woman had a leg broken and damage was done to a kitchen in Maroubra last night when a stove exploded. Mrs. W. Stacey, 42, was about to light the ...

    Article : 104 words
  36. THE "KANGAROOS."

    The members of the Australian Ruby League team, the "Kangaroos," visited the Headingley ground this afternoon and walked all over the playing area with the idea of deciding ...

    Article : 211 words
  37. NORTHERN COLLERIES.

    It is understood that notices recently issued to 500 employees of Aberdare Extended Colliery may be withdrawn if the employees are prepared to accept certain new conditions of ...

    Article : 165 words
  38. CALEDON BAY NATIVES

    A suggestion that a Methodist mission station should be established at Caledon Bay in North Australia, was made to the Minister for the Interior (Mr. Perkins) to-day by ...

    Article : 166 words
  39. ASSASSINATION CHARGE.

    Two naval officers, charged with the murder of the Premier (Mr. Inukai) in May, 1932, have been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment without hard labour. Eight other officers, who ...

    Article : 135 words
  40. FRENCH WARSHIP

    The French sloop Aldebaran arrived late last night from Noumea, under the command of Captain Andre Lepelletier. After passing through the Heads the warship ...

    Article : 120 words
  41. YOUTH'S ESCAPE.

    Thomas Deal, 17, of Hartley-street, Rozelle, had a remarkable escape from serious injury or death yesterday, when he fell 40 feet into a railway cutting excavated in rock ...

    Article : 94 words
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