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  2. NEARLY LOST

    Sir Ernest Shackleton's famous ship, the Quest, which was chartered by the British East Greenland Expedition this summer to transport the party and stores, ...

    Article : 172 words
  3. AIR ROUTE

    The Fourth Airways Expedition, surveying the Antipodes route, left Honolulu to-day on board the United States Coast-guard cutter Itasca for Jarvis, Baker, and ...

    Article : 290 words
  4. 40-HOUR WEEK

    A Royal Commission, to inquire into the possibility of instituting a 40-hour working week in Australia will probably be set up in the very near future. ...

    Article : 514 words
  5. CAR CRASHES INTO SHOP WINDOW

    Damage estimated to exceed £75 was caused to this shop window in Hunter-street last night, when it was struck by a car. It was almost denuded of glass, which was strewn for 12 yards along the footpath. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 42 words
  6. B.M.A. MEETS

    The long-awaited 103rd annual meeting of the British Medical Association, the first to be held in this country and the final event of ...

    Article : 716 words
  7. BRADY NOT GUILTY

    By direction of the Chief Justice (Mr. Justice Jordan): Patrick Brady, 42, a shearer, was acquitted by the jury at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of having murdered James Smith at Cronulla on or about April 8 last ...

    Article : 2,877 words
  8. FURTHER RISE

    The progressive rise in the numbers in employment and the fall in the numbers of unemployed continued in August. Since January, 1935, there has been a decrease ...

    Article : 237 words
  9. FORMATION FLIGHT

    The three Short Singapore III, flying-boats, which were delayed by unfavourable weather at the start last Tuesday on a formation flight to Basra in four stages ...

    Article : 53 words
  10. FEDERAL FINANCE

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 492 words
  11. COUNCIL FINED

    Because preference was not given to a returned soldier when a health and sewerage inspector was appointed last May, the Wellington Municipal Council was ...

    Article : 136 words
  12. SIX FOR 315

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 352 words
  13. WHEAT DEARER

    The price of wheat was increased at Liverpool to-day, making a rise of 2¼d a bushel since the Canadian Government's new fixed price of 87½ cents, which is ...

    Article : 145 words
  14. THE WOOL RACE

    A race to carry the first cargo of Australian wool to London occurs at the opening of each wool season. This year's race is expected to begin ...

    Article : 156 words
  15. OCEAN MYSTERY

    The captain of the steamer Aztee, on its arrival at Avonmouth, reported the discovery in mid-Atlantic of an abandoned luxury yacht, La Dahann, which was ...

    Article : 83 words
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    Dictator of Louisiana, who was shot by a political opponent on Sunday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 16 words
  17. CANADIAN WORKER

    The withdrawal from the labour market of those who have reached the age of 60, the conversion of dominion, provincial and municipal debts at lower interest rates, the ...

    Article : 96 words
  18. ROBBERY CHARGE

    When the case in which Thomas Croft, 30, mechanic, Kenneth Charles O'Connell, 31, plasterer, and Muriel O'Connell, 30, domestic duties, are charged with having ...

    Article : 374 words
  19. JAPANESE WHEAT

    The newspaper "Asahi" states: "Japanese wheat has now reached 7.8 yen a cwt, the highest price since May, 1933, due to the crop being below former ...

    Article : 74 words
  20. NITROGEN INDUSTRIES

    According to Press reports, the international nitrogen agreements negotiated in July by groups representing the nitrogen industries of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, ...

    Article : 145 words
  21. LIQUOR LAWS

    Concern at the "attempts being made to encroach on the liquor laws" was expressed at to-day's session of the Baptist Church conference. It carried a motion ...

    Article : 262 words
  22. MISSING LINKS

    "Missing links connecting apes with man will most likely be found in south-west and central Asia," Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, the famous geologist, formerly ...

    Article : 129 words
  23. BOTH MARRIED

    Two marriage certificates form chapters in a story of a flight to Australia by a monoplane, which will leave Southampton on October 1 ...

    Article : 158 words
  24. M.C.C. v. KENT

    In the cricket match between Kent and the Marrylebone Club at Folkestone, Kent, after making 425, dismissed the Marylebone players for 174. A. P. Freeman took ...

    Article : 82 words
  25. AUSTRALIA LEADING

    Australia is loading South Africa by three rubbers to one in the final tennis test, played at Cape Town to-day. The courts were slow and the weather windy. ...

    Article : 200 words
  26. "COURT OF LAW"

    A ruling was given in the Legislative Assembly to-day by the Speaker that the Industrial Court must be regarded as a Court of law, and its actions, while ...

    Article : 128 words
  27. BABY WEIGHED 130Z.

    Claimed to be the lightest baby in the world when it was only 13oz. when born 11 weeks ago, a boy is doing well under an electrically-heated blanket beside the ...

    Article : 44 words
  28. HERALD STOP PRESS

    Signor Mussollni has ordered preparations for a trial mobilisation throughout Italy and the colonies as a demonstration of the country's ...

    Article : 90 words
  29. HIGHER SPEEDS

    The Railway Department, it was announced to-day, may use the fast "30 class" express locomotives on passenger trains to the Blue Mountains to speed ...

    Article : 98 words
  30. "DO GOOD"

    Voluntary sterilisation would do an immense amount of good, according to Lord Horder, the eminent London physician, who arrived to-day for the Medical ...

    Article : 148 words
  31. FEDERAL ATTITUDE

    A definition of the Commonwealth Government's attitude towards the Italo-Abyssinian dispute will be given to the Federal Parliament when it assembles at ...

    Article : 127 words
  32. MR. WALLACE BEARBY

    News was received in Newcastle yesterday by cablegram that Mr. Wallace Arthur Bearby, 27, of Newcastle, had been killed in a motoring accident in ...

    Article : 153 words
  33. W.A. BUDGET

    In his Budget speech to-night, the Premier (Mr. P. Collier) estimated a deficit of £255,647 for the current financial year's operations, as against a deficit of £167,895 ...

    Article : 130 words
  34. HARVEST THREATENED

    Forty thousand grape pickers in the Narbonne district went on strike to-day. The men demanded 8/ a day and the women 5/ and 3/, with a daily wine ration ...

    Article : 72 words
  35. MISS STAMMERS DEFEATED

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 84 words
  36. Increasing American Navy

    In an effort to increase the Navy Treaty strength as soon as possible, the Navy Department awarded contracts to-day for the construction of 23 vessels, including ...

    Article : 77 words
  37. H.M.A.S. AUSTRALIA FOR TRIALS

    The new H.M.A.S. Australia has left Portsmouth for Spit Head to undergo tuning up trials preparatory to joining the Mediterranean Squadron. ...

    Article : 31 words
  38. Advertising

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