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  2. FEDERAL SESSION.

    The discussion of the tariff duties began in earnest in the Senate to-day, when the debate on the motion for the second reading of the Customs Tariff Bill ended unexpectedly. The ...

    Article : 1,824 words
  3. EXCHANGE.

    The Commonwealth Bank Board came to no determination yesterday on the question whether it should alter its quotations of buying and selling exchange on London, which ...

    Article : 603 words
  4. PUBLIC SERVICE.

    By a decision of the State Cabinet yesterday, Ministers in future will insist that all employees of their respective departments shall become unionists. ...

    Article : 473 words
  5. INDIA.

    During a further discussion to-day in the Federal Structure Committee of the Indian Round-table Conference, Lord Reading referred to the proposal by Pandit Malaviya that ...

    Article : 766 words
  6. MANCHURIA.

    A severe battle was fought to-day at Tashing, a small town near Tsitsihar. General Ma Ohan-shan, the Chinese general, launched an offensive on the Japanese positions. The ...

    Article : 378 words
  7. PREFERENCE

    In the Anti-dumping Bill, to apply duties against foreign-manufactured articles, which have been coming in at an enormously increased rate since the ...

    Article : 599 words
  8. COMMUNISTS

    Speakers at a deputation, consisting of about 140 women and several men, which waited upon the Minister for Education (Mr. Davies) yesterday, made serious allegations regarding ...

    Article : 1,588 words
  9. CATHEDRAL SITE.

    The State Cabinet decided yesterday that representatives of the Government should confer with the St. Andrew's Cathedral authorities on the proposal to transfer the cathedral ...

    Article : 100 words
  10. UNLICENSED ARMS.

    Drastic penalties will be imposed on owners or carriers of unlicensed firearms if the recommendations of the Commissioner of Police (M[?] Childs) are carried into effect by the ...

    Article : 311 words
  11. PROFESSOR'S DEATH.

    Professor Walter Reid, one of the most brilliant of English scientists, whose researches led to the discovery of smokeless gunpowder, died at the Kingston Infirmary, where he was ...

    Article : 92 words
  12. SAVINGS BANKS.

    Proposals for the amalgamation of the State Savings Bank with the Commonwealth Savings Bank were considered yesterday by the Commonwealth Bank Board and the Savings ...

    Article : 126 words
  13. BUILDING SOCIETIES.

    It is understood that a movement is on foot among the Starr-Bowkett societies operating in New South Wales to challenge the action of the Federal Taxation Commissioner in ...

    Article : 341 words
  14. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    General Smuts was to-day elected Rector of the Scottish University of St. Andrews. MR. WILLIAM GRAHAM. Mr. William Graham, who was President of ...

    Article : 452 words
  15. JAPANESE WARSHIPS

    Two Japanese warships will visit Sydney next May, in the course of a training cruise of the Pacific. Arrangements for the cruise are now being completed by the Japanese ...

    Article : 181 words
  16. REMARKABLE STORY

    Of the many unusual stories that have been told to Mr. Frank Davenport, the well-known city solicitor, few are more remarkable or have had a more dramatic and exciting ...

    Article : 316 words
  17. MR. THOMAS' TOUR.

    In the House of Commons to-day Mr. I. J. Albery (Con., Gravesend) asked which of the dominions Mr. Thomas proposed to visit before the Imperial Economic Conference, when ...

    Article : 370 words
  18. AUSTRALIAN AIRMAN

    Flying-officer G. E. Klein, a young Western Australian, is approaching the conclusion of his five years' short service commission with the R.A.F., in which he distinguished himself, ...

    Article : 206 words
  19. BETTING RAID.

    Members of Inspector Russell's "anti-betting squad" made a lucky "find" during a raid on a shop in Crown-street, Surry Hills, yesterday afternoon. An intensive search was made ...

    Article : 117 words
  20. CHEMIST'S GOODS.

    Speakers at a well-attended meeting called by the Federated Pharmaceutical Service Guild of Australia at the Savoy Theatre last night declared that the sale of chemist's ...

    Article : 343 words
  21. MEN ON DOLE.

    A check roll-call of dole recipients at Charlestown, near Newcastle, is stated to have had remarkable results. Only 137 of the 329 unemployed who had registered for relief at ...

    Article : 144 words
  22. DASH IN 'PLANE

    A veterinary surgeon left Mascot Aerodrome by aeroplane yesterday morning for a station near Willow Tree, Quirindi district, where a valuable spaniel dog had become ill, apparently ...

    Article : 129 words
  23. IRISH SWEEP.

    Two hundred Irish colleens, dressed in fawn harlequin costumes, staged an almost theatrical performance at the Plaza ballroom, Dublin, where ingenious machinery assisted them to ...

    Article : 171 words
  24. SHIP'S DOCTORS.

    Nearly a year has elapsed since Mr. Fitzsimons, M.L A., asked the Premier (Mr. Lang) in the Legislative Assembly whether it was a fa[?] that a man who had been taken ill on ...

    Article : 239 words
  25. TRADE BOOM.

    Sir William Morris, head of the Cowley (Oxford), firm of motor car manufacturers, speaking at Dundee, said that trade in the South of England was improving by leaps and ...

    Article : 147 words
  26. TELEPHONE INSTALLED

    During the week a business man made application for a telephone connection at 12.30 p.m. Mr. Greig, postmaster, immediately telegraphed to head office in Sydney, and ...

    Article : 51 words
  27. HORSE-POWER TAX.

    The Premier (Mr. Lang) stated last night that the Government did not propose to introduce a motor car tax of £1 per horse-power unit in addition to the present registration fee ...

    Article : 106 words
  28. CONSPIRACY CHARGE.

    Norman Hill, 35, an Australian, described as a sales manager, having no fixed address, who appeared at Marlborough Police Court charged with being concerned, with two others not in ...

    Article : 138 words
  29. RETURNED SOLDIERS.

    Delegates at the Returned Soldiers' League Conference to-day agreed to the formation of the Sons of Sailors and Soldiers' League of Australia. The object of the new ...

    Article : 127 words
  30. SOUTH AFRICA.

    Parliament was opened to-day with the usual ceremony. The Governor-General's speech stated that conditions had arisen making it imperative to render special assistance ...

    Article : 152 words
  31. PARTY UNITY.

    Representatives of the National Association and the All for Australia League further discussed the proposals for party unity yesterday. ...

    Article : 134 words
  32. DANGEROUS CLIMB.

    A man took a desperate risk in a successful endeavour to escape arrest in an alleged gambling den in King William Mansions William-street, Darlinghurst, last night. ...

    Article : 160 words
  33. BAD DEBTS.

    Amounts written off the books of the City Electricity Department as "bad" debts for the six months ended June 30, 1931, totalled £2829. Amounts in excess of £5 totalled ...

    Article : 112 words
  34. THE REICHSBANK.

    A message from Berlin states that the Reichsbank's gold and foreign currency reserves, as well as the percentage of these to notes in circulation, have touched a new low ...

    Article : 66 words
  35. HOSPITAL STAFF RESIGNS.

    The matron and nursing staff of the Illawarra Cottage Hospital at Coledale have resigned, on the ground that they cannot tolerate the odours arising from the sanitary depot ...

    Article : 58 words
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