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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 186 words
  3. State Transport Losses Disturb

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Railway difficulties this financial year were more serious than those that gave rise to the adverse result of 1948-49, the Auditor-General (Mr. Swift) said in his annual report. ...

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  4. Police Guard At A.L.P. Branch Re-formation

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Eleven police to-night guarded the hall where Paddington branch of the Australian Labour Party was ...

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  5. Recognition of Baby-sitting Urged by A.L.P.

    CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Recognition by the Commonwealth Employment Service of baby-sitting as an occupation has been requested ...

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  6. DECIDING ON THE BEST WINDOW DISPLAY

    Mayfield Shopping Week includes a window-dressing competition on which the public is asked to vote. Mayfield shoppers ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. BEST JET PLANE PLAN FOR AUSTRALIA

    CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Australia is planning to build the world's best jet fighter plane. Details of the plane and its scale of production are being ...

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  8. Consultants To Review Rail Working

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Transport Commissioner (Mr. Winsor) to-night announced the appointment of three Railway Department ...

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  9. Talks With U.K. On Dollar Loan

    CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Mr. Chifley told the House of Representatives to-night that he was having consultations with the British Government on the question of a dollar loan. ...

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  10. Drought In Britain Damages Ships

    LONDON, Oct. 4. A.A.P.—The drought, which has lasted all the summer in Britain, is causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage ...

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  11. Insisted On "Good Time" At Funeral

    NEW YORK, October 4.—Five hundred friends and relatives tried to carry out to the letter the last wishes of Sofi Marion that they ...

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  12. MAN KILLED BY RAIL MOTOR

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A young man was hit by a rail-motor at Lidcombe station to-night. He has not yet been identified. ...

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  13. Awards For Soviet Atom Workers

    LONDON, Oct. 4. A.A.P.—Moscow radio announced that a number of distinctions had been conferred in Russia "for the ...

    Article : 79 words
  14. Fascist Rally To Burn "Daily Worker"

    LONDON, Oct. 4. A.A.P.—Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist Union movement declared to-day—within 24 hours of the announcement of ...

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  15. FIVE CHARGES IN RAVDELL CASE

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Five charges were preferred against Benjamin Gelbart, 29, to-day after he had been questioned for 6½ hours by detectives investigating the disappearance of Solomon Ravdell, ...

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  16. 10 p.c. Petrol Cut Tipped

    CANBERRA, Tuesday.—A 10 per cent cut in the new petrol ration compared with the previous ration was forecast by Commonwealth authorities to-day. ...

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  17. Yorkshiremen Hitch-hiking To Australia

    LONDON, Oct. 4. A.A.P.—Two Yorkshiremen have just left Doncaster on a hitch hike to Australia with a scheduled arrival date of ...

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  18. Mr. Falstein May Leave Labour Party

    CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Mr. Falstein, M.H.R., proposed to leave the Australian Labour Party, it was reported in the lobbies to-night. ...

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  19. Mine Pension Payments Rise

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Payments made to retired miners under the Coalmine Workers' Pensions Act in the year ended June 30, 1949, ...

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  20. Gift Rabbit Worry To Earl's Mother

    LONDON, Oct. 4. A.A.P.—A rabbit named Spot, which was sent to the Earl of Harewood as a wedding gift, is a source of worry ...

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  21. Sailor Killed; Ship Struck Wreck

    THE HAGUE, Oct. 4. A.A.P.—One of the crew was killed and several others injured when the Swedish steamer Mira (1500 tons) ...

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  22. MOTHER-IN-LAW WAS "SWEETEST WOMAN"

    NEW YORK, Oct. 4. A.A.P.—The sponsors of a "sweetest woman" contest in Philadelphia raised their eyebrows over one entry. A man ...

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  23. 3 Feet Ruled Too High For Kitchen Table

    LONDON, Oct. 4.—Several thousand members of the British women's group of public welfare have decided that the traditional ...

    Article : 116 words
  24. Fireman Fell From Engine

    LITHGOW, Tuesday.—Falling front the engine of a train at Cullen Bullen to-day, Raymond Nolan, 28, fireman, of Taree, suffered ...

    Article : 125 words
  25. Man Injured In Fall Between Train, Platform

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Alfred Ernest Lawrence, 48, of Provincial-road, Lindfield, was seriously injured to-night when he tell ...

    Article : 103 words
  26. Millionaire's Widow Sues Ex-Dancer

    LONDON, October 4.—An action in which-Lady-Cunliffe-Owen, widow of the tobacco millionaire, Sir Hugo Cunlife-Owenti is claiming ...

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  27. "DON'T WHISTLE AT GIRLS HERE"

    NEW YORK, Oct. 4. A.A.P.—The owner of a beauty saloon in Upper Darby (Pennsylvania) posted this sign over his establishment— ...

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  28. Newcastle Supplies

    Most Newcastle garage proprietors have received part of their October petrol quota from the oil companies, but even with strict ...

    Article : 86 words
  29. Art Union Winner Did Not Sleep Long

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. E. Buckleton, 47-year-old employment officer at Glebe employment office, was waken up ...

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  30. Escaped Convicts Recaptured

    LONDON, Oct. 4. A.A.P.—After a dramatic dawn chase through misty back lanes and railway sidings in Lewes (Sussex), police ...

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  31. Police Magistrate Stabbed "In Error"

    SINGAPORE, Oct. 4. A.A.P.—Reuter.—A police magistrate, Mr. A. M. MacDonald, was stabbed in the stomach by an Asian, as he ...

    Article : 82 words
  32. NO KISS FOR MR. FRASER

    CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Mr. Fraser, M.H.R., had to do without a kiss from a migrant to-night. Because the Minister for ...

    Article : 106 words
  33. Man Drank Plant Spray, Died

    LISMORE, Tuesday.—William Ross Pepper, 43, of Cormdale, died to-day after he had drunk from a bottle containing plant spray ...

    Article : 88 words
  34. Appeal Lodged In Tokyo Rose Case

    SAN FRANCISCO, October 4. A.A.P.—Counsel for the defence has appealed to have the conviction of the woman known as Tokyo ...

    Article : 88 words
  35. Danish Ship In Distress

    COPENHAGEN, Oct. 4. A.A.P.—The Greenland Administration Authority announced that distress signals had been picked up from ...

    Article : 56 words
  36. Lifesize Television For The Home

    LONDON, Oct. 4. A.A.P.—Lifesize television for the home was demonstrated in London last night for the first time, says the "Daily ...

    Article : 63 words
  37. Bandts Kidnap Schoolmaster

    ROME, Oct. 4. A.A.P.—Three of Salvatore Giuhano's bandits kidnapped a schoolmaster at Alcamo yesterday, while police were ...

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  38. FIRE DESTROYS NORWEGIAN SHIP

    PUERTO CABELLO (Venezuela), Oct. 4. A.A.P.—A fire of undetermined origin swept the 1350-ton Norwegian steamer, ...

    Article : 47 words
  39. Strike Cut "Right To Strike" House

    LONDON, Oct. 4. A.A.P.—Actors in a play about a bus strike—"The Right to Strike"—at a Huddersfield Theatre last night, faced ...

    Article : 47 words
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