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  3. UNIFORM TAXATION CONFERENCE STILL IN DOUBT

    CANBERRA.—If some of the Stated Premiers wanted a conference on the Commonwealth and States' financial relationships he would "have a look at the ...

    Article : 425 words
  4. CANNOT ORDER 5-DAY WEEK IN SHOPS

    Wages boards established for shops cannot determine that the 40-hour week in shops outside the boundaries of Hobart and Gleno[?] be implemented by elimination of Satur[?] ...

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  5. LATE KING'S STATUE

    A giant statue of King Geoge V. in Abingdon St., Westminster, near the Houses of Parliament, has now been unveiled. The ceremony was performed by the King (upper picture). Lower: Queen Mary and other members of the Royal Family at the unveiling. The Princess ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. HELICOPTER "RESCUE"

    At a demonstration of life-saving given at Dungeness (Eng.), hardened lifeboatmen watched with bated breath as a man, clinging to slender wire suspended from a helicopter, was lifted from the Dungeness Lighthouse gallery (left). The helicopter then hovered over a lifeboat (right). into which it safely lowered the "rescued" man. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. TESTING OF GIANT FLYING BOAT

    LOS ANGELES (A.A.P.) —Howard Hughes, millionaire aircraft builder and film producer, announced ...

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  8. AVERAGE OF 233

    LALA AMARNATH, Indian Test captain, who had compiled a brilliant 228 when he declared the innings closed against Victoria ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  9. DIGGER'S THREAT ON PENSIONS

    CANBERRA.— Tasmania's delegate to the R.S.L. Congress (Mr. L. R. Lucke) yesterday threatened to call a public meeting in Launceston, the home town of the Minister for Repatriation (Mr. Barnard), unless he granted general increases ...

    Article : 417 words
  10. Baltic Migrants for Australia

    BREMERHAVEN (A.A.P.) —More than 800 Baltic displaced persons sailed aboard the General Heintzelman ...

    Article : 48 words
  11. Claims Against Japan

    WASHINGTON (A.A.P.).—Initial reparations claims against Japan, submitted to the Far Eastern Commission by 11 countries, are estimated at 54,000 million dollars. ...

    Article : 262 words
  12. IN DEFENCE OF THE BANK GRAB

    CANBERRA.—Dr. Gaha (Labour, Tas.) declared in the House of Representatives yesterday that the Commonwealth Government would have gone further in much quicker time, if it had decided to destroy private trading ...

    Article : 420 words
  13. REBELS IN CAPITAL OF KASHMIR?

    NEW DELHI (A.A.P.)—The rebel "Free Government of Kashmir" claims that its forces have actually reached Srinagar, capital of the state, and expect to capture the airfield, seven miles south of the city, to-day. ...

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  14. THIEF WOUNDS DETECTIVE

    PERTH.—When police set trap last night to catch a man suspected of having stolen a 1947 model car, valued at £1200, which was found ...

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  15. WILL NOT RAISE AIR FARES

    MELBOURNE.—Ansett Airways will not increase Melbourne—Adelaid and Melbourne-Sydney fares unless compelled to do so. said the ...

    Article : 93 words
  16. RUSSIA TO BOYCOTT U.N. KOREAN COMMISSION

    NEW YORK (A.A.P.) — When the Political Committee of U.N. voted yesterday to send a special commission to Korea, Russia announced immediately that the Soviet bloc would boycott it because the committee had ...

    Article : 173 words
  17. Stop-Watch Rehearsal of Royal Wedding

    LONDON (A.A.P.). — Officials with stop-watches will time every movement during the full-scale rehearsal of the Royal wedding behind the closed doors of Westminster Abbey on November 17, according to the "Daily ...

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  18. CHAIRMAN OF DAIRY PRODUCE BOARD

    CANBERRA.—Mr. G. C. Howey, Colac (Vic.). has been appointed chairman of the reconstituted Australian Dairy., Produce Board, to ...

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  19. CHALLENGE ON BILL

    ADELAIDE. — Immediately Federal Parliament passed the Banking Bill, the, South Australian Government would ask the ...

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  20. BANDITS TAKE £33,880

    BOSTON (A.A.P.).—Two of six armed bandits who held up the Hyde Park division of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation ...

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  21. Labour M.P. Expelled from House of Commons

    LONDON (A.A.P.) — Mr. Garry Allighan, Labour member of the House of Commons for Gravesend, was yesterday expelled from the House. Mr. Allighan's expulsion will necessitate a by-election for the seat which ...

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  22. CHOLERA TESTS ARE NEGATIVE

    CANBERRA.—Tests on the cholera suspect. at Darwin, Mr. Arthur Goodman (76), and on other passengers and the crew of the Qantas Hythe flying boat have so far proved negative, the Minister for Health. (Sen. ...

    Article : 166 words
  23. DIGEST OF THE LEADERS

    IT is realised that up to the present the trade figures of the Tamar show a satisfactory rate of ...

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  24. LOADING RAT-INFESTED DATES FOR N.Z.?

    WELLINGTON (A.A.P.).—A request that the Minister for Health (Miss Mabel Howard) should intervene to present the landing in New Zealand of allegedly "stinking rat-infested" dates now being loaded in ...

    Article : 146 words
  25. GREATER OUTPUT OF TIN NEEDED

    MELBOURNE. — Latest advices from London indicate that tin production is not likely to overtake consumption until the end of 1949. ...

    Article : 76 words
  26. Protests to Russia Seizure of Austrian Oil Wells

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—Britain and America have sent notes of protest to Moscow against the Russian seizure six weeks ago of the ...

    Article : 88 words
  27. £378,391 ESTATE

    SYDNEY —Henri van de Veldy, Sydney businessman, who died in New York last June, aged 68, left an estate worth £378,391. He was ...

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