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  2. TRANSPORT WORKERS' BILL

    The provisions of the Transport Workers' Bill were explained in the House of Representatives this morning by the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce), who moved the second reading ...

    Article : 2,653 words
  3. FOUNDERED.

    The coastal steamer Kallawatta sprang a leak off Bungan Head, near Newport Beach, early yesterday morning, and foundered within half an hour. No lives were lost. ...

    Article : 528 words
  4. MR. CHARLTON RETIRES.

    Mr. M. Charlton, M.P., formorly leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labour party, last night announced his retirement from public life on the grounds of ill-health. ...

    Article : 233 words
  5. BOY MURDERED.

    Bruised, bleeding, and strangled, the body of the 10-years-old son of Mr. Frederick Jamieson, vice-president of the Hawalian Trust Company, was found this morning, after two ...

    Article : 180 words
  6. THOUSANDS OF VOLUNTEERS.

    Wharf-labourers at Newcastle, the first port to be worked by free labour, have capitulated. They offered for engagement yesterday afternoon and a gang was employed. The shipowners will continue to employ volunteers who desire ...

    Article : 154 words
  7. INCREASED FARES.

    The cash fares on the Milson's Point and McMahon's Point ferry services will be raised on October 1 from 2d to 3d—an increase of 50 per cent. ...

    Article : 310 words
  8. FASCISM.

    The decision of the Fascist Grand Council at Rome in fnvour of a new constitution, under which the Council becomes the supreme organ of the regime ...

    Article : 253 words
  9. LORD CURZON.

    The final volume of Lord Ronaldshny's biography of Curzon of Kedieston reveals the bitterness of Lord Curzon'a disappointment at his life's ambition to become Prime Minister ...

    Article : 303 words
  10. COURT PROCEEDINGS.

    Many wharf-labourers were present at the City Court to-day, when Mr. A. A. Kelly, P.M., began the hearing of the first of the four charges which have been preferred ...

    Article : 373 words
  11. AT WORK.

    After a day of watching free labour at work members of the Newcastle branch of the Wnterside Workors' Federation decided at a meeting this morning to go back to ...

    Article : 772 words
  12. TEST SELECTORS.

    Following on its decision that the selection committee should consist of four, the Australian Board of Control for international cricket matches yesterday elected the ...

    Article : 833 words
  13. BANK OF TASMANIA.

    Startling discoveries relating to what was described during the proceedings as "one of the largest schemes for extracting money from the unwary public that has come to light ...

    Article : 368 words
  14. RELIGIOUS ISSUE.

    When Governor Smith, the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, was approaching Oklahoma City to-night a great blazing cross was lit by the Ku-Klux-Klan in a meadow ...

    Article : 272 words
  15. TWO SHOT.

    The Nyngan police received word that a man shot n woman and himself at Gerar, an outstation of Moonagee, owned by Killen and Sons. ...

    Article : 162 words
  16. GENEVA DEBATES.

    At Geneva the only concrete result of the long struggle to out down the League of Nations Labour Office budget was achieved to-day, when by 13 votes to 6 it was agreed ...

    Article : 370 words
  17. DISTURBANCES.

    Applications for volunteers to handle cargo which stevedores refused to touch having been called by the shipowners, several men were to-day engaged and were informed that ...

    Article : 253 words
  18. A GENEROUS GIFT.

    With £500,000 worth of Government stock, Mr. Bernhard Baron, the well-known philanthropist and tobacco manufacturer, has created a trust of which the capital and income will ...

    Article : 243 words
  19. EDUCATION.

    In the ten years' period ending 1927, the cost of education in New South Wales increased from £7/4/8 to £13/1/10 per child per annum. ...

    Article : 269 words
  20. OLD BASIS.

    The State Cabinet has decided that the old basis of distribution of totalisator dividends shall be reverted to from September 20. In a three-dividend race the distribution of ...

    Article : 317 words
  21. OFFICIAIS' ADVICE.

    The waterside workers received a surprise to-day when over 400 men volunteered and were accepted to work the idle steamers in port. Nine oversea vessels were worked, ...

    Article : 221 words
  22. THE HURRICANE.

    Estimates placing the total dead in Florida at 800 and 1500 persons missing, and reports of rioting by negroes, indicate that a vast problem is facing the relief workers. A grave ...

    Article : 249 words
  23. MISHAPS OF THE AIR.

    While Miss Margaret Wellby was piloting an aeroplane at Brooklands, it developed spin, which she was unable to overcome. The 'plane crashed and Miss Wellby was killed. ...

    Article : 277 words
  24. THE VOLUNTEERS.

    The shipowners, it was reported in Sydney last night, hava decided to continue employing at Newcastle, volunteers, who desire to remain at work on the waterfront, in addition ...

    Article : 160 words
  25. STORMY SCENE.

    Torrents of abuse greeted Mr. Tom Walsh when armed with an ordor of the Court restraining Mr. Johnson and others from preventing him from assuming his duties as ...

    Article : 346 words
  26. KILLED BY TRAIN.

    Mr. Thomas Oswald Kidd, schoolmaster at Black Mountain, was killed in distressing circumstances at an early hour this morning, when a train crashed into the gates at a level ...

    Article : 184 words
  27. WOOL SALES

    An urgent meeting of the Sydney Wool Selling brokers was held yesterday, when it was decided that the suspension of the wool sales in Sydney should be continued for another ...

    Article : 96 words
  28. NEW PHASE.

    The latest development that is causing grave concern to shipowners was the decision this afternoon of the firemen on the British steamers Port Adelaide and Fordsdale not to supply ...

    Article : 107 words
  29. ETERNAL DAMNATION.

    "Belief in eternal dam[?]ation has debased the Christian conception of God and been a stumbling block to thousands of sincere Christians," declared the Rev. Geoffrey Allen ...

    Article : 180 words
  30. A TEST.

    When a call is made this morning for labour to handle the cargo on the R.M.S. Cathay, of the P. and O. line, the attitude of the Sydney wharf-labourers will be tested. ...

    Article : 214 words
  31. TRAIN DERAILED.

    A railway accident happened about 1 o'clock this morning, when a goods train to Port Pirie was switched on to the wrong line near the South End crossing. The engine ...

    Article : 114 words
  32. PEACE CONFERENCE.

    A ballot was held by the Melbourne Trades Hall Council to elect three representatives to attend the industrial Peace Conference. The ballot resulted in Messrs. H. C. Gibson ...

    Article : 88 words
  33. BOUND FOR ANTARCTICA.

    Sir George Wilkins is sailing to-morrow by the liner Southern Cross for Monte Video, accompanied by Lieut. Elleson and an additional pilot, Joe Crosson. The equipment ...

    Article : 77 words
  34. FREMANTLE LUMPERS.

    After much uproar a mass meeting of the Fremantle branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation, held in Fremantle Town Hall today, unanimously decided to adhere to its ...

    Article : 80 words
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