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  2. MINERS' CHALLENGE.

    At a torchlight demonstration organised by striking mineworkers at Rothbury to-night, the strikers were exhorted to use every possible means of ...

    Article : 1,067 words
  3. PARLIAMENT OPENED.

    The Governor-General, Lord Gowrie, when he opened the new session of the Federal Parliament to-day, referred to the coal strike, and said that if ...

    Article : 1,518 words
  4. GOVERNOR-GENERAL OPENS FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

    The scene in the Senate Chamber at Canberra as the Governor-General, Lord Gowrie, opened the second session of the 15th Federal Parliament yesterday. Seated beside Lord Gowrie, who is in the President's chair, is the President of the Senate, Senator Blythe Hayes. Seated on the benches in front (reading from the right) are: Mrs. Menzies, Lady Gowrie, the Minister for Customs, Senator McLeay, the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, the Minister for Commerce and the Navy, Mr. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 108 words
  5. NIGHT BETTING OPPOSED.

    Ministers of religion who gave evidence yesterday before the Select Committee on the administration of trotting expressed strong opposition ...

    Article : 476 words
  6. GREENLAND'S DANGER.

    Persistent reports ne circulating in Washington that Canada has either occupied Greenland, Denmark's only colonial possession, or soon will. ...

    Article : 378 words
  7. MR. ORR REBUKED.

    Parliament will sit on Friday, despite Mr. Menzies's absence. When Mr. Menzies's attention was directed to the statement of the secretary [?] the ...

    Article : 291 words
  8. A.I.F. INSPECTION.

    Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Wavell, the Commander-in-Chief of the British land forces in the Middle East, to-day inspected the A.I.F. He was ...

    Article : 272 words
  9. METAL TRADES BUSY.

    The metal trades are so busy at present that the greatest worry of employers is to get enough men to do the work," said Mr. C. Mundy, advocate for the Amalgamated ...

    Article : 118 words
  10. PACIFIC AXIS URGED.

    "An Australian-American Axis?" is the subject of an article by Mr. C. Hartley Grattan,, Carnegie Research Fellow, in the latest issue of Harper's ...

    Article : 322 words
  11. REDUCED POLICE PAY.

    "The public cannot be served by a discontented police force; we must have contentment," said the general secretary of the Police Association of New ...

    Article : 360 words
  12. TAXI-CAB FALLS OVER CLIFF.

    A taxi-cab, left by the driver on a stand in Edgecliff Road, near the Edgecliff Post-office, last night, ran down the hill, jumped the kerb, knocked down ...

    Article : 198 words
  13. BRITAIN'S TWO ARMIES.

    Men mobilised in Britain, either for military service or for vital industrial employment, number 1,700,000, and on May 25, men of 27 years of age will be ...

    Article : 418 words
  14. OWNERS' CRITICISM.

    "The longer the strike continues, the more candid become the leaders of the mining unions about their intention to sweep the Arbitration Court aside," said the secretary ...

    Article : 150 words
  15. SOLDIERS' DAY APPEAL.

    Soldiers' Day Appeal, conducted by the United Returned Soldiers' Fund, will be held to-morrow. ...

    Article : 20 words
  16. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 177 words
  17. REVIEW OF COAL STOCKS

    Returns received by the Federal Government to-day from the census of Australian coal stocks reveal that there are considerable differences in coal ...

    Article : 230 words
  18. BROKEN HILL STRIKERS

    The Minister for Transport, Mr. Bruxner, said in the Legislative Assembly yesterday that he had been informed that the men who had been on ...

    Article : 205 words
  19. U.S. PLANES FOR ALLIES.

    The Allies have already obtained about 1,200 planes of all types from the United States. The Allied Purchasing Mission will ...

    Article : 130 words
  20. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 222 words
  21. UNITED STATES UNEASY.

    Expressing the opinion that the spread of warfare abroad necessitates increases in the defences of the United States Administration, leaders have ...

    Article : 197 words
  22. MR. E. C. SQUIRE DEAD.

    Mr. Earl Christopher Squire, United States Trade Commissioner in Australia between 1927 and 1938, died in London on April 16. He was born in Michigan, and after ...

    Article : 93 words
  23. LABOUR'S PART IN WAR.

    A promise that Britain's labour forces would pull their full weight in the war to "exterminate this foul thing—Hitlerism" was made in an Empire ...

    Article : 168 words
  24. DANES PLANNED RESISTANCE.

    Denmark's decision to resist the German invasion was withdrawn at the end of an hour's ultimatum to do so, or suffer Danish cities to be bombed, ...

    Article : 165 words
  25. MR. TRAUTWEIN, M.L.C.

    Because of the sentence of 12 months' imprisonment which was imposed on Mr. T. C. Trautwein, M.L.C., in the Central Summons Court on Tuesday, the question arises whether ...

    Article : 226 words
  26. CHANCE FOR YOUTH.

    For an hour after a jury at the Dubbo Supreme Court had convicted Bede Patrick [?]urray, 16. of a cr[?]inal offence against a girl off 15. Mr. Justice Davidson examined ...

    Article : 393 words
  27. N.Z. SHIPPING SERVICE REDUCED.

    For the first time since it was commissioned in 1936, the Union Company's Awatea is to be taken off the run from Sydney to Auckland next month. This is because of decreased ...

    Article : 59 words
  28. TO-DAY.

    Theatre Royal: "Trial by Jury." "The Pirates of Penzance." 8 Minverva Theatre: "[?] Mice and Men." 8.15. Tivoli Theatre: "Lucky Stars," 2.15, 8. ...

    Article : 374 words
  29. COAL TRUCKS BURNED.

    Between 30 and 40 coal trucks were burned between Bulli and Wollongong last night. The trucks were on a set of railway lines in scrub near a colliery, and a bushfire probably set ...

    Article : 49 words
  30. SENTENCE OF DEATH COMMUTED.

    The sentence ot death passed on Alexander Novad, [?]1[?] works manager, for the murder of Mart Pikkur, 55, glass grinder, on September 24 last, has been commuted to ...

    Article : 38 words
  31. REPORTED SHOOTING OF HIMMLER.

    A report from Stockholm that Herr Himmler, Chief of the Gestapo (German secret police), was shot through the mouth in the streets of Copenhagen last week is ridiculed ...

    Article : 82 words
  32. NAZI FORCES IN NORWAY.

    Reports from American official sources abroad indicate that Germany has only 10,000 troops in Norway, plus whatever troops she has been able to ...

    Article : 91 words
  33. FIRE IN SUSSEX STREET.

    A motor car caught fire in a garage at 291 Sussex Street, city, last night. The fire spread to the first floor, and smoke rose to the second floor. An electrical short circuit is believed ...

    Article : 59 words
  34. NAZI AGENTS IN MEXICO.

    The secret police have discovered at least 100 Nazi agents and a number of Communist operatives, who are working under a German Gestapo (secret ...

    Article : 94 words
  35. BRITISH RAIL FARES INCREASE.

    The Minister for Transport, Mr. Euan Wallace, in the House of Commons, announced the authorisation of a 10 per cent. increase of all railway charges and fares from May 1. ...

    Article : 38 words
  36. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Tin was quoted to-day at £255/5/ a ton, compared with £253/10/ yesterday. Rubber was quoted at 11 1-l6d a lb. Mining share quotations:—North Broken ...

    Article : 48 words
  37. GROUND STAFF FOR R.A.A.F.

    Twenty-two young Australian airmen arrived in London last night to reinforce Number 10 Squadron, R.A.A.F., which has been serving since Christmas with the R.A.F. Coastal ...

    Article : 56 words
  38. INCREASED BRITISH TRADE.

    United Kingdom imports in the first three months of 1940 increased by £89,817,695 over the same period in 1939. Exports increased by £799,730. ...

    Article : 30 words
  39. SUBURBAN AND COUNTRY PICTURE THEATRES.

    Programmes of Suburban and Country Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertisement section. ...

    Article : 21 words
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