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  2. CHRISTMAS SHOPPING RUSH BEGINS IN EARNEST.

    Yesterday marked the beginning of the Christmas shopping rush, which will gradually intensify until Christmas Eve, which is now only a week away. The pictures show (left) portion of the dense crowd in Pitt Street; and (right) a cashier handling some, of the day's takings in the counting-house of a city store. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. AVIATION MAPS CRITICISED.

    In answer to the statement by the Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr. Thorby, published in yesterday's "Herald" that he could sec nothing ...

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  4. REDUCTION OF TAXES.

    Taxation reductions which the Premier, Mr. Stevens, announced in the last Budget will come into force on January 1. ...

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  5. DISMISSAL OF JEWS.

    The Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, indicated in the House of Commons yesterday that firms in Britain which dismissed Jewish ...

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  6. N.Z. IMPORT POLICY.

    "If New Zealand carries out her import restrictions on January 1, we will go bald-headed for a denouncement of the Ottawa Agreement, and I think it ...

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  7. LICENCE CONCESSION.

    An official message received by the New Zealand Trade Commissioner, Mr. W. Taylor, from the New Zealand Government states that it has been decided to grant licences for ...

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  8. SINGLE PARTY IN RUMANIA.

    Rumania has moved in the direction of creating a totalitarian regime by forming a single official party entitled the "Union of National Rebirth." ...

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  9. MR. BRUCE IN U.S.A.

    In an interview with the Australian Associated Press, after his arrival in New York, the Australian High Commissioner to Great Britain, Mr. Bruce, ...

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  10. CHRISTMAS RUSH BEGINS.

    Yesterday was the busiest shopping day of the year. With only nine more days to Christmas the shops and stores did a roaring trade, as thousands of ...

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  11. MR. DRUMMOND CRITICISED.

    The president of the Metal Trades Employers' Association, Mr. John Heine, in a statement yesterday, said that since it now appeared that the Minister for ...

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  12. STORM DAMAGE TO CROPS.

    The Deputy-Premier, Mr. Bruxner, stated in the Legislative Assembly yesterday that claims for compensation by those who had suffered damage to crops by last Saturday's hurricane ...

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  13. PRICE OF BREAD.

    A public meeting convened by the Industrial Labour Party at the Sydney Town Hall last night, unanimously carried a resolution moved by Mr. Heffron, ...

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  14. THE CALL-UP.

    A call-up for employment is announced to-day. Details appear on page 36, column 1. ...

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  15. REBUFF TO MUSSOLINI.

    The Italian Minister in Prague has lodged a protest against a ban which has been laid on the reproduction in the Czech Press of "Dialogues by the Thames," an article in ...

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  16. INDEX.

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  17. FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

    In order to demonstrate its suitability for personal travel, a two-seater light plane with an ordinary 105-h.p. engine will leave from Brandenburg for Tripoli on Saturday, and will ...

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  18. MEMEL PROBLEM

    The Foreign Minister, M. Urbshys, referring to the Memel elections, said that Lithuania would not discuss an illegal solution of the Memel question. She ...

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  19. SWISS PRESIDENT.

    M. Philipp Etter, who is 47 years old, and the youngest member of the Cabinet, has been elected president of Switzerland. M. Marcel Peliet Golaz is vice-president. ...

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  20. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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  21. MAN CRUSHED TO DEATH.

    Charles Smith, about 59, of Yarra, was digging for rabbits in a bank about 18 feet high on the side of a creek, four miles from the Lerida Estate, Collector, when the bank ...

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  22. STATE ACCOUNTS.

    A decline of £249,767 in revenue and an increase in expenditure of £1,542,710 are revealed in the State accounts issued yesterday for the five months ended November 30. ...

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  23. ALLEGED CHINESE WIFE.

    A claim for a share in the £52,000 estate which the late Alfred Long Parke, an Australian-born Chinese, left to his widow in Sydney, came before the Equity Court ...

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  24. JEWISH REFUGEES ARRIVE.

    Little Peter Benjamin being held up by his happy mother for his first glimpse of Sydney at the Aorangi moved up the Harbour yesterday morning. They were among the 143 German Jews—the largest contingent yet to land. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  25. EMBEZZLEMENT BY VATICAN OFFICIAL.

    Mario Politi, an accountant in the Vatican Library, and the only recent occupant of the Vatican's six-cell gaol, has been sentenced to imprisonment for four years for the ...

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  26. FLOUR TAX.

    The Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons said to-day that the variation in the flour tax announced yesterday was the first of many which would be made from time to time. Such fluctuating ...

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  27. MINISTER'S RETORT.

    The Minister for Education, Mr. Drummond, said last night that while, theoretically, defence was a responsibility of the Commonwealth, and ...

    Article : 205 words
  28. IMPERSONATION OF JOCKEY.

    Police last night were looking for a man who it is alleged, attempted to obtain £10 by false representations from Mr. Harold Hooper, a motor tyre retreader, of Anzac ...

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  29. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

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  30. TO-DAY.

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  31. CONSTABLES INJURED.

    A motor cycle and sidecar, on which two constables were riding to a Lindfield bank, in response to an urgent call yesterday, collided with a motor lorry at the intersection of ...

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  32. BOY DROWNED IN SURF.

    Ernest Power, 12, of Kelvin Grove Road, Brisbane, was drowned, and three other boys had marrow escapes when they were swept out of their depth by undertow at Palm Beach ...

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  33. TEACHERS' PROTEST.

    The country committee of the New South Wiles Public School Teachers' Federation issued a statement yesterday criticising the Commonwealth Govemment for not making ...

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  34. ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL.

    The Minister for Health, Mr. Fitz Simons, said last night that the Hospitals Commission again conferred on Thursday with the board of the Royal North Shore Hospital, ...

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  35. INQUIRIES AMONG ABORIGINES.

    In the Legislative Assembly yesterday, the Chief Secretary, Mr. Gollan, denied allegations that an inspector of the Aborigines' Protection Board and a departmental officer ...

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  36. FIRE IN CITY.

    Fire broke out last night on the third floor of a building in Day Street, city, occupied by the electric clock and instrument factory of Prouds Pty., Ltd. When firemen, directed ...

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  37. MR. J. S. GARDEN INJURED.

    Mr. John S. Garden, 55, of Cooper Street, Maroubra, a former M.P., was slightly injured last night when his motor car and a motor lorry collided at the intersection of Hay and ...

    Article : 58 words
  38. SUBURBAN AND COUNTRY PICTURE THEATRES.

    Programmes of Suburban and Country [?] Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertisement Column. ...

    Article : 13 words
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