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  2. SILOS FILLED

    A serious position is fast developing in connection with the storage of wheat from the present harvest. After Tuesday no further deliveries to country silos ...

    Article : 484 words
  3. MENA GRIFFITHS

    Great public interest was taken in the inquiry held to-day into the death of Mena Griffiths, a 12-year-old schoolgirl, whose outraged body was found in an ...

    Article : 1,101 words
  4. TIDAL WAVE

    Amalgamated Wireless (Aust.), Ltd., received a message from the Manus Radio Station, New Guinea, to-day, stating that a tidal wave struck the ...

    Article : 139 words
  5. "NO HITCH"

    Expressing confidence that the details of the trade agreement between Australia and Canada would be worked out during the next few days, the Australian ...

    Article : 293 words
  6. ENTRY BARRED

    The Federal Government has decided to restrict entrance into Australia of all foreign Nationals, owing to the unprecedented unemployment conditions. The ...

    Article : 277 words
  7. 100 KILLED

    Removing part of the track near the Peipiao station on the Peking-Mukden Railway, bandits derailed a train. The locomotive boiler exploded and the train ...

    Article : 104 words
  8. 44-HOUR WEEK

    A circular issued by direction of the Minister for Works, Mr. M. A. Davidson, to all heads of the Public Works Department, regarding the 44-hour week, ...

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  9. STILL ACTIVE

    Reports received by the Government of India from the Provincial Governments for the first half of December show in most provinces attempts to intensify the ...

    Article : 454 words
  10. TRADE WITH EMPIRE

    The New Year message of the Industries' Association, declares that no more hopeful outlook, regarding unemployment can be foreshadowed, owing to the absence of ...

    Article : 146 words
  11. BANK ROBBERY

    After nearly five weeks of exhaustive investigations the police to-night arrested three men, and recovered a motor truck and portion of a large oxy-acetylene ...

    Article : 255 words
  12. COALMINES BILL

    The Minister for Mines and Labour and Industry (Mr. J. M. Baddeley) has been engaged for some time in drafting a bill to regulate the coaimining ...

    Article : 193 words
  13. MR. MOLONEY'S DEPARTURE

    Inquiries at the Department of Markets to-day regarding the cabled information that the Minister for Markets (Mr. Parker Moloney) had cancelled his ...

    Article : 123 words
  14. INTO MOLTEN METAL

    After having complained to his wife that his weekly wage, 32/, was too small, Ernst Gehrmann put on his best clothes and returned to the steelworks where he ...

    Article : 93 words
  15. HEALTHY CHILDREN

    An encouraging report on the British school medical service for 1929 by the chief officer, Sir George Newman, was issued to-day. ...

    Article : 132 words
  16. NEW CHINESE TARIFF

    The new tariff schedule published this morning greatly increases import duties all round. Australian imports affected are canned ...

    Article : 82 words
  17. BIG COAL MERGER

    At an extraordinary general meeting held to-day shareholders of the Abermain-Seaham Collieries, Ltd., agreed to the proposal formulated some time ago for the ...

    Article : 114 words
  18. IN RETREAT

    Faced with the alternative of fighting or surrendering the Tharrawaddy insurgents chose the former, and yesterday gave battle to a detachment of the ...

    Article : 138 words
  19. LARGER W.A. HARVEST

    The wheat transport figures for the new season's crop shows that there were 2,018,168 hags for the ports, and 283,453 for the mills, which is an increase of ...

    Article : 15 words
  20. RAILWAYS AWARD

    In an award relating to salaries and wages for 1930, issued to-day by the Railways Classification Board, following the recent inquiry, provision is made that the ...

    Article : 204 words
  21. FURS STOLEN

    Following the direction indicated by civilians, Constables Chamange and Glendenning arrested two men in a dark lane off Elizabeth-street, City, to-night, ...

    Article : 116 words
  22. NEW "BABY" CAR

    Motor exports declare that the new Morris "Baby" car will revolutionise motoring. Newspaper correspondents are featuring ...

    Article : 84 words
  23. COUNTRY FIRES

    As a result of two disastrous fires, a residence at Fladbury and another at Stannum were razed to the ground. In one blaze the furniture and all personal ...

    Article : 427 words
  24. NO RATIONING

    The Sydney branch of the Seamen's Union to-day reversed a decision arrived at three weeks ago—that a scheme of rationing be introduced. The meeting, ...

    Article : 160 words
  25. EMPIRE BOARD

    Commenting upon the "deplorable position of industry in Britain." Sir Robert Hadfield, Chairman of Hadfields, Ltd., expressed the opinion that the solution of ...

    Article : 130 words
  26. NORTH-WEST PROVINCE

    The Indian Round-table Conference to-day resumed work after the Christmas holidays. The North-west Frontier Province ...

    Article : 758 words
  27. BROACHED LIQUOR CARGO

    A Finnish steamer became stranded during a severe storm in the Baltic Sea, and the crew of 48, giving up hope of rescue, looted a number of cases of smuggled ...

    Article : 105 words
  28. DESPERATE GUNMAN

    Two men were injured in a shooting episode at Breakfast Creck this afternoon. A revolver shot was heard outside an hotel, and Sergeant Fahey hurried to ...

    Article : 361 words
  29. FOUR CHARGES

    In the local Police Court, William Leonard Floyd, and Harry Piercy, were charged with having stolen on December 26, nine gallons of petrol, the property of ...

    Article : 288 words
  30. WAGE CUT RESENTED

    Asserting that the Australian tariff on cricket bulls has halved England's exportation of balls, the Employers' Amalgamated Society of Cricket Ball Makers, ...

    Article : 50 words
  31. KINGS OF UR

    The British Museum and Pennsylvania University Expedition has discovered the tombs of the Kings of Ur, dating back to 2300 B.C. They include the tombs of ...

    Article : 94 words
  32. SHORTAGE ALLEGED

    That during his investigations be had discovered a shortage of about £11,000 in the stock was stated in an affidavit by the liquidator of the business known ...

    Article : 144 words
  33. SET FIRE TO BED

    The chess champion of the world, Dr. Alexander Alckhine, fell asleap at a hotel at Esseg, with a lighted cigarette in his mouth, setting fire to the bedclothes. ...

    Article : 66 words
  34. PHYSICIST'S BELIEF

    Dr. Robert Millikan, eminent physicist, addressing the opening session of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Convention, presented ...

    Article : 109 words
  35. COMBINED ACTION

    According to members of the Queensland cricket team, who returned from the southern tour to-night, any attempt by the selectors at victimisation will be met ...

    Article : 150 words
  36. CHIEF METEOROLOGIST

    Difficulty is being experienced by the Federal Government in selecting a successor to the Commonwealth Meteorelogist (Mr. H. A. Hunt), who will retire from ...

    Article : 202 words
  37. FACTORY TO BE SOLD

    The Vocalion Company has concluded an agreement to sell their factory, in Australia, owing to the "abnormal conditions there." ...

    Article : 11 words
  38. PRISONER ESCAPES

    Mt. Mitchell afforestation prison camp was the scene of another escape this morning. At about 8.30 it was found that Stanley Mahoney had disappeared. He is ...

    Article : 184 words
  39. ATTACKED CONSTABLE

    Joseph Gough, 33, was sentenced to three months imprisonment, and John Algie, 32, fined £5, at the Globe Police Court to-day on a charge of assaulting ...

    Article : 85 words
  40. FRUITS FOR EXPORT

    The Acting Minister for Markets (Mr. F. M. Forde) stated to-day that the Government had no intention of adopting the suggestion that it should withdraw its ...

    Article : 85 words
  41. BOXER'S DEATH

    A remarkable case, in some respects similar to that of Jack Haines, who collapsed after his fight with Ambrose Palmer at the Sydney Stadium on ...

    Article : 37 words
  42. MAN GAOLED ON OLD CHARGE

    On three charges of having embezzled money in December, 1926, while employed by Reginald Annabel, a Rockdale dairyman, Arthur Raynham, 65, was sentenced ...

    Article : 88 words
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