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  3. FAMILIES LEAVE HOMES TO ESCAPE FLOOD

    Eight families left their flooded homes in Thurber, Ann and Riley Streets, East Maitland, shortly after 8 o'clock last night after a succession of embankment breaks. ...

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  4. PETROL RATION ENDS TO-NIGHT

    CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Petrol will be unrationed in Australia on Thursday. The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) in a national broadcast to-morrow night will ...

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  5. ARRIVAL OF PETROL CELEBRATED

    A celebration to mark the arrival of the first shipment of French petrol to Newcastle since the war was held at Winn's last ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. Japanese Woman Blinded Husband

    TOKYO, Feb. 7. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Police charged three Japanese with one of the most brutal crimes recently reported. ...

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  7. River Peak Thought Reached

    At 1.20 this morning the Hunter River at Belmore Bridge, Maitland, was 32ft. 6in. It had been stationary at this figure ...

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  8. Federal Cabinet Approves Burma Loan

    CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Federal Cabinet to-day approved a short-term sterling loan to Burma in conjunction with other Commonwealth ...

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  9. Australians Who Scored At The Games

    AUSTRALIANS who won events completed at the British Empire Games yesterday— ...

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  10. Town Isolated; Flood Subsides

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Glen Davis is still isolated by flood water front Capertee River, although the water is subsiding. Police hope that a bridge ...

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  11. Commissioner Ends Short Rail Haulage

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Garside) has decided to eliminate short-distance haulage of goods ...

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  12. Damages Writs For Deaths In Plane Smash

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Three writs issued out of the Supreme Court to-day claim damages for injury, resulting in death, in an ...

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  13. Labour Council Widens Dispute At Oil Plant

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Trades and Labour Council Disputes Committee to-day advised all unionists outside the Federated ...

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  14. WHEAT CROP UP 25M. BUSHELS

    CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Australia's 1949-50 wheat crop would be in the vicinity of 215 million bushels—25 million bushels more ...

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  15. Miners Will Not Cooperate With Menzies

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Central Council of the Miners' Federation to-day pledged itself, by a motion, not to cooperate with the Menzies ...

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  16. A.W.U. Opposes Job Allocation To Migrants

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.—The Australian Workers' Union will oppose the Federal Government's plan to bring 40,000 British migrants to ...

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  17. Fingerprints Wiped Out With Perfume

    PARIS, Feb. 7.—Two bandits used a bottle of perfume costing £10 an ounce, and a cambric handkerchief to eliminate ...

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  18. Funnel Web Spider Bites Woman

    SYDNEY, Tuesday—A 64-year-old woman collapsed and had to be taken to hospital after a funnel web spider bit her on a finger ...

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  19. Heavy Snow Blankets Middle East

    JERUSALEM, Feb. 7. A.A.P.—Troops have been called out to help people in Homs (Syria) to repel attacks by hungry wolves, ...

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  20. Three Arrested Following Bomb Outrage

    LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7. A.A.P.—Three former associates of Mickey Cohen, with long police records, were arrested early to-day ...

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  21. Chief Justice Sworn In

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. Justice Street was sworn in as Chief Justice of New South Wales in the State Full Court to-day. ...

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  22. TAX CUTS PROBE BY EXPERTS

    CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Treasurer (Mr. Fadden) was to-night authorised by Federal Cabinet to establish an expert ...

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  23. HONOLULU BANS RUSSIAN CREWS

    HONOLULU, Feb. 7. A.A.P.—Two Russian "fishing vessels" of the same type that visited Honolulu just before the 1948 atomic ...

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  24. FLOOD THREAT IN THAMES

    LONDON, Feb. 7. A.A.P.—The Thames Valley to-day is faced with its most serious flood threat since last winter, as the result of ...

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  25. Inquiry Ordered On Dollar Earnings

    CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Commonwealth Government has ordered an investigation into details [?] Australia's dollar earnings. ...

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  26. Concord Polling Commences

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Polling for Concord by-election has commenced. The State Electoral Commissioner ...

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  27. Murderer To Die In Gas Chamber

    LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7. A.A.P.—Superior Court Judge Fricke Sentenced Fred Stroble, 68, to die in a gas chamber for the murder ...

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  28. No Public Inquiry On Tarakan

    CANBERRA, Tuesday.—No public inquiry, except the normal Coroner's inquest, will be held into the H.M.A.S. Tarakan disaster. ...

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  29. Seventh Death In Picnic Smash

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The death roll in the Broadford picnic van smash reached seven to-day when Walter Sim, 30, of Brunswick, ...

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  30. U.S. Unemployment At Postwar Peak

    WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. A.A.P. Unemployment in the United States is at its highest peak since the war. The number of persons ...

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  31. Eight Escape As Catalina Sinks

    WELLINGTON, Feb. 7. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Eight occupants of a Royal New Zealand Air Force Catalina escaped unharmed when ...

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  32. Scientists Rescued In Antarctic

    LONDON, Feb. 7. A.A.P.—Three more British scientists were rescued by plane from Stonington Island, in the Antarctic, yesterday. ...

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  33. Youths Found Flood Profitable

    A TEAM of young men, some in bathing costumes, others in shorts or old clothes, did a flourishing trade in the highway ...

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  34. Plan To Lift Wreck 2000 Years Old

    GENOA, Feb. 7. A.A.P.—A ship that sank 2000 years ago with a cargo of wheat and olive oil is being salvaged near ...

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  35. SLED HORSE FALLS ON WOMAN

    A horse pulling a milk sled yesterday reared when frightened and fell back on a woman on the sled. The woman, Mrs. Jessie ...

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  36. PLANES IN SUB-ZERO AIR SEARCH

    NEW YORK, Feb. 7. A.A.P.—Planes operated in temperatures as low as 60 degrees below zero yesterday in a search for the United ...

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  37. SHIP STRIKES REEF: THREE DROWNED

    LONDON, Feb. 7. A.A.P.—Three of the crew of the 565-ton British vessel, Killurin, were reported to have been drowned ...

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