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  3. Flood Waters at One Mile

    ONE OF THREE.—Rain from the watersheds of Warrill Creek and the Bremer River came down the watercourses late on Tuesday night and early yesterday morning. The river rose so quickly that traffic between Ipswich and Rosewood was cut off until mid-day yesterday. Flood waters poured under the One Mile ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. "FRENCH PETROL WILL MEET ONLY 1 PER CENT. OF OUR NEEDS"

    CANBERRA, Oct. 26.—"French petrol for Australia will only satisfy one per cent. of our needs," the Minister for Fuel (Senator Ashley) told the Senate to-day. This was the most oil companies could obtain, despite their world-wide search for ...

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  5. PRIVY COUNCIL REASONS FOR REJECTING APPEAL ON BANKS ACT INVALIDATION

    LONDON, Oct. 26.—Essential reason for the Privy Council's dismissal of the Commonwealth Government's appeal against the invalidation of the Bank's Nationalisation Act was that the Act did restrict freedom of commerce, trade, and ...

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  6. 200 SCOTLAND YARD MEN ON WIDESPREAD MURDER HUNT

    LONDON, Oct. 26.—More than 200 Scotland Yard detectives and plain-clothes police are scouring London ...

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  7. ECONOMIES CAUSE UNION SPLIT?

    LONDON, October 26.—The U.K. Government's economy programme is reported to have widened the rift among ...

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  8. PETROL PRICE RISE TALKS AT WEEK-END

    SYDNEY, Oct. 26.—The price of petrol is expected to rise by 3½d. a gallon after a conference of State ...

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  9. BRITAIN LASHED BY FIERCE GALES

    LONDON, Oct. 26.—After a night of howling gales Britain was still being lashed by storms early to-day. As the depression moved over Britain it carried a ...

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  10. AUST. WOOL CLIP HELPED BY COPPER

    CANBERRA, Oct. 26.—Hundreds of thousands of pounds had been added to the value of the Australian wool clip by ...

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  11. Charge Against Government on Arbitration Court

    CANBERRA, Oct. 26.—Mr. Holt (Lib. Vic.) in the House of Representatives to-day charged the Government with ...

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  12. URGES GOVT. TO MAKE GIFT TO U.K.

    CANBERRA, Oct. 26.—Sir Earle Page (C.P., N.S.W.) to-day urged the Commonwealth Government to make ...

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  13. OIL REFINING IN JAPAN

    CANBERRA, Oct. 26.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) told Mr. Adermann (C.P., Qld.) in the House of ...

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  14. FLOOD CONDITIONS IN STATE EASING

    BRISBANE, Oct. 26.—General flood conditions in Queensland were easing, though all southern Queensland rivers ...

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  15. SECOND APPEAL TO MINERS ON SHORTENING HOLIDAYS

    SYDNEY, Oct. 26.—Coal miners are to be asked again by the Joint Coal Board to take only two weeks' holiday at Christmas instead of three. ...

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  16. FEDERAL PARLIAMENT TO BE DISSOLVED ON OCT. 31

    CANBERRA, Oct 26.—The Governor-General (Mr. McKell) had agreed to a dissolution of the present 18th Federal Parliament on October 31, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) announced in the House of ...

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  17. 55,026 Increase in Aust. Population

    CANBERRA, Oct. 26.—The population of Australia at March 31 last, excluding full-blooded aborigines, was ...

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  18. WOMAN DROWNED IN SWOLLEN GYMPIE CREEK

    GYMPIE, Oct. 26.—When she endeavoured to swim the flooded Happy Jack Creek at Carter's Ridge, 20 miles from ...

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  19. PAY INCREASE IN CLOTHING INDUSTRY

    BRISBANE, Oct. 26.—The Clothing and Allied Trades Union Secretary (Mr. W. Sparkes) to-day announced ...

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  20. Atom Bomb Plants to be Expanded

    OAKRIDGE (Tennessee), Oct. 26.—The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission said yesterday that it was planning ...

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  21. "Cleaned Out" by Tornado and Fire

    BRISBANE, Oct. 26.—John Daly, of Mona Vale Station, Jardine Valley, 14 miles from Hughenden, has been hit by misfortune twice in the one week. ...

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  22. PROTEST STRIKE POSTPONED

    BRISBANE, Oct. 26.—Brisbane postal tele-communications technicians decided to postpone indefinitely their ...

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  23. Saved Workmate by Respiration

    BRISBANE, Oct. 26.—A man climbed an electric light pole in Gatton to-day and applied artificial respiration ...

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  24. Ignorant of U.K. in America

    LONDON, Oct. 26.—There was a good deal of ignorance in America about Britain, the Archbishop of York (Dr. ...

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  25. REPLY TO HANLON ON STOCK DEATHS

    BRISBANE, Oct. 26.—The United Graziers' Association President (Mr. P. B. Newcomen) said to-day that the ...

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  26. Test of Suez Canal Air Defences?

    LONDON, Oct. 26.—The R.A.F. in Cairo threw a curtain of secrecy last night over large scale manoeuvres opening ...

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  27. 5 UNIONS RECEIVE SERVICE PRIVILEGES

    SYDNEY, Oct. 26—Five more mining unions to-day were granted an award entitling members to three ...

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  28. No Cuts in Salaries of British Ms.P.

    LONDON, Oct. 26.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee) yesterday ruled against a cut in salaries of British ...

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  29. Army "Ducks" for Flood Relief Work

    CANBERRA, Oct. 26.—Assurances that the Army would promptly supply "ducks" for relief work in the event of ...

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  30. Fatal Injuries In Tractor Accident

    NAMBOUR, October 26.—Edward Richards (36), married, a Mapleton case mill proprietor, was run over by a ...

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  31. GOVERNMENT GRANT TO U.N. RELIEF FUND

    CANBERRA, Oct. 26.—A bill providing for a grant of £500,000 to the United Nations' Children's Emergency Relief ...

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  32. MINERS' LONG SERVICE LEAVE

    CANBERRA, Oct. 26.—A bill to authorise the granting of long service leave to coal miners, and a bill to impose an ...

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  33. CHANGE TO PERSIA

    LONDON, Oct. 26.—Shah Mohammed Reza has agreed that Iran should return to her ancient name of Persia, or ...

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