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  2. STATE INTERVENES

    The State Government has decided to intervene in the shipping strike so far as intrastate ships are concerned. Exercising the powers under section 48 of the Industrial Arbitration Act, the Minister for Labour (Mr. Dunningham) has ordered that a secret ballot ...

    Article : 368 words
  3. SYDNEY'S ACCENT.

    Miss Grace Pattullo, the 18-ycar-old Canadian High School girl, whose essay on Australia won her, as a prize, a three months' tour of the Commonwealth as the guest of ...

    Article : 626 words
  4. MISSING HERMES.

    The first definite result from the search for the missing Government schooner, Hermes, was obtained when the steamer Friderun returned to ...

    Article : 152 words
  5. FLOUR TAX

    The Federal Cabinet will probably give early consideration to the removal of the sales tax on flour before October 1, when the Commonwealth Stabilisation Plan will come into ...

    Article : 135 words
  6. ACT INVALID.

    By a majority of six to three, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the entire Agricultural Adjustment Administration programme was ...

    Article : 693 words
  7. FRENCH NAVAL BASE.

    International tension in the Mediterranean vests with considerable significance two moves being made by France—one a six weeks' cruise by the French Atlantic fleet, which, in any emergency, could reach the eastern Mediterranean in three or ...

    Article : 210 words
  8. CLOSING DOWN.

    The chairman of directors of Amalgamated Textiles (Australia), Ltd. (Mr. F. W. Tietyens) announced to-day that it had been decided to close immediately the wool-scouring section of ...

    Article : 244 words
  9. DON BRADMAN.

    Don Bradman, speaking at a luncheon tendered to the South Australian cricket team by the Newcastle District Cricket Association to-day, said that possibly some ...

    Article : 115 words
  10. FLYING BOATS.

    Captain A. S. Keep, who recently resigned the general managership of the Westland Aircraft works, the makers of Wapitis for the Australian Air Force, says he believes that the ...

    Article : 272 words
  11. DESPERATE HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING.

    It is reported from Dessye that General Graziani's aircraft, operating from the southern border of Abyssinia, proved the deciding factor in a 24-hour conflict on January ...

    Article : 335 words
  12. TWO KILLED.

    A man and a youth were killed, and another man was critically Injured in a terrific explosion in a petrol storage tank this afternoon. ...

    Article : 378 words
  13. MINISTER'S STATEMENT.

    Mr. Dunningham said last night that a secret ballot would be held among members of the Seamen's Union employed on vessels of the North Coast Steam Navigation ...

    Article : 376 words
  14. PREFERENCE RESCINDED.

    Summonses to show cause why the Seamen's Union of Australasia, New South Wales branch, should not have its State registration as an industrial union cancelled and why the ...

    Article : 1,070 words
  15. MOVING PICTURES.

    Mr. F. W. Thring has decided to remove his film production enterprises to Sydney because the Victorian Film Quota Act has not been proclaimed. ...

    Article : 138 words
  16. WAGES TAX.

    On pay-day this week wage-earners who receive £5 a week or less will experience, for the first time, the practical Benefit of reductions of taxation provided for in the State ...

    Article : 392 words
  17. OIL SANCTION.

    The Diplomatic Correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian," in a lengthy analysis of the position relating to the proposed oil sanction, says that President Roosevelt's message to ...

    Article : 343 words
  18. AMBULANCES BOMBED.

    The British Minister in Addis Ababa (Sir Blaney Barton), in confirming reports in circulation over the week-end that another ambulance unit in Abyssinia had been bombed ...

    Article : 460 words
  19. THE PARINGA

    The Assistant Minister for Commerce (Senator Brennan) said to-day that all requirements of the Commonwealth navigation laws had been complied with ty the owners of the ...

    Article : 167 words
  20. REDUCED DEFICITS.

    President Roosevelt, in his annual Budget message, presented to Congress yesterday, promised the nation a balanced Budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, with the ...

    Article : 290 words
  21. SEAMEN'S LOSSES.

    It was estimated in shipping circles yesterday that the union seamen who have gone on strike have lost at least £16,000 a week in wages and overtime since the interstate ...

    Article : 214 words
  22. POLICE CONSTABLE

    At the Moree Police Court to-day Joseph Henry Jackson, who had been stationed at Moree for four years as a police constable, was convicted on a charge of having a car battery ...

    Article : 131 words
  23. HATCH COVER ON BEACH.

    A wooden hatch cover was washed ashore at Lake Tyers to-day, and was recovered by residents The police at Lakes Entrance were informed, and the four Chinese who were ...

    Article : 139 words
  24. ISSUE OF LICENCES.

    The Attorney-General (Mr. Menzies) announced to-day that, in order that applicants for seamen's licences shall not have to run the gauntlet of union pickets at the licensing ...

    Article : 396 words
  25. MAN AND GIRL

    A man and a girl, dressed only in blue bathing costumes, figured in a chase through the streets in East Melbourne this afternoon. They were pursued by a man who fired shots ...

    Article : 130 words
  26. TWO TRAMS.

    When a tram from Balmain to Circular Quay, via Forest Lodge, was standing at the Barnes-street crossing, Balmain, at 6.30 a.m. yesterday, it was crashed into by a tram from ...

    Article : 176 words
  27. ATTACKS ON BRITAIN.

    To-day's further attacks on Britain by Fascist newspapers give special interest to a series of the secret instructions issued to newspaper editors in Italy, which have been ...

    Article : 143 words
  28. BRITISH MINERS.

    The meeting of the National Executive of the Mine Owners' Federation, which was adjourned from before Christmas till yesterday, was further adjourned till after Wednesday's ...

    Article : 146 words
  29. GOLDMINERS.

    The wages of employees of gold-mining companies will be increased by /4 a shift, or 2/ a week, for the quarter commencing on January 16. This has been brought about by ...

    Article : 80 words
  30. FRANCE'S PART.

    The naval correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" (Mr. H. O. Bywater) states that [?] six weeks' cruise of the French Atlantic [?] to begin from Brest on January 14, is ...

    Article : 399 words
  31. BANK NOTES.

    A rusty billycan and a jam tin, containing £401 in bank notes, were unearthed when an o[?] house in Musgrave-street, Rockhampton, was being demolished to-day. The notes ...

    Article : 161 words
  32. 'PLANE CRASHES.

    [?]-Lieutenant T. Rose, who took off from Lympne (Kent) at 2 a.m. for the Cape of Good Hope, ran into a snowstorm and crashed at Abbeville. Rose escaped injury. ...

    Article : 64 words
  33. COLOURED SHIRTS.

    The fashion of coloured shirts as an index of political opinions has spread to Egypt. Organisers of the Wafd have decided that young Wafdists will be enrolled in ...

    Article : 66 words
  34. AIR SERVICES

    Eastern Air Transport, Ltd., and Australian Transcontinental Airways, Ltd., are forming a subsidiary company to give an air service to Goulburn, Yass, Gundagai, Tumut, Holbrook, ...

    Article : 75 words
  35. SEARCH FOR TREASURE.

    Whilst searching for "buried treasure" on the Greenmount beach, Coolangatta, children uncovered a ten-gallon barrel of beer. The police made inquiries and found that ...

    Article : 80 words
  36. CAPITAL LEVY MOOTED.

    Despite official denials, the Government is considering a 5 per cent. capital levy, and business circles expect drastic measures to relieve the desperate financial situation. ...

    Article : 43 words
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