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  2. CIVIL AVIATION.

    The Minister for Defence (Mr. Parkhill) announced yesterday that he had approved the Newcastle Aero Club being placed on the same footing as are clubs in capital cities. ...

    Article : 279 words
  3. COUNTRY NEWS.

    An unsatisfactory position has arisen between the Albury Council and the Public Works Department in connection with the sewerage system to South Albury. This work ...

    Article : 177 words
  4. MATCH REVIEWED.

    The Australians easily won their match against Eastern Province—their fourth provincial match—by an innings and 144 runs. Their first innings score gave them a lead of ...

    Article : 570 words
  5. BRITISH MINERS.

    Representatives of the colliery owners met representatives of the Mine Workers' Federation yesterday, and placed before them the offers of increases of wages, which had been ...

    Article : 199 words
  6. SYDNEY TO-DAY.

    Sydney, within the last year or two, has undergone a remarkable transformation in many directions, although the people who swarm into the city each morning, and out ...

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  7. MURDER CHARGE.

    Giacomo Tarca, 30, an Italian farm labourer, was committed for trial from the City Coroner's Court to-day on a charge of having murdered his employer, Luigi Marchesi, 50, a farmer, ...

    Article : 649 words
  8. CHIEF OFFICER.

    Mr. C. D. A. Richardson will succeed Mr. G. Grimmond as chief officer of the Fire Brigades of New South Wales. His appointment was approved by the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 335 words
  9. TROPICAL AIR STREAM

    What the Divisional Meteorologist (Mr. Mares) described yesterday as a "vast tropical air stream" is at present enveloping the greater part of Australia, and there have ...

    Article : 480 words
  10. HOSPITAL CONTRIBUTION SCHEME.

    For December, £108 was received by the Ballina District Hospital from the contribution scheme. The amount, which included a record for the week ended December 10, when ...

    Article : 96 words
  11. GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY REFUSED.

    The key of the coal situation is the Government's determination not to subsidise the industry, or even guarantee a loan, on the ground that the Samuel report made it clear ...

    Article : 354 words
  12. BALLINA FIRE BRIGADE.

    Although only seven calls were received by the Ballina Fire Brigade during 1935, some of the outbreaks were serious, and in two the damage was estimated at more than £1000. ...

    Article : 55 words
  13. BITTEN BY PYTHON.

    Mr. Leo Cracknell, an animal trainer employed by Expeditionary Films, Ltd., was attacked by a python yesterday. Mr. Cracknell is in charge of a number of ...

    Article : 212 words
  14. COURT BUSINESS INCREASES.

    Annual returns compiled by the Clerk of Petty Sessions for the Barraba district (Mr. J. J. Loomes) for 1935 show an all-round increase in the volume of work transacted ...

    Article : 99 words
  15. DUBBO WATER SUPPLY.

    The Newtown Progress Association has protested against the council authorising an expenditure of £2200, additional to the estimated cost of £14,250, for the augmentation ...

    Article : 67 words
  16. DOGS ON BEACH.

    The president of the Cronulla Surf Life-saving Club (Councillor Henderson) has complained to the municipal council of the increasing number of dogs allowed to stray on ...

    Article : 150 words
  17. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.

    Walter Horace Reginald Green, a district farmer, was found hanging in a fence on his holding near Forbes on New Year's Day, with a shotgun wound through his right temple. ...

    Article : 76 words
  18. BRITISH ENGINEERING TRIUMPH.

    The completion recently at the paper mills of Edward Lloyd, Ltd., Sittingbourne, Kent, of the largest and fastest paper-making machine in the world was another triumph for ...

    Article : 112 words
  19. RELIEF SCHEMES.

    Protests have been raised in various country centres at the action of the Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. Dunningham) in ordering the discontinuance of the emergency ...

    Article : 329 words
  20. DRY SPELL

    Soaking rain, which broke the dry spell in the south and central west, extended eastward to-day, and parts of the Darling Downs participated in falls ranging up to two inches. ...

    Article : 270 words
  21. AVIATION.

    The finding of the body of Flying Officer Philip Agard Butler on a canvas raft, wearing full flying kit and an oxygen lifebelt, floating in the sea off Craigwell House, Bognor, ended ...

    Article : 179 words
  22. TRIP DOWN THE MURRUMBIDGEE.

    Mr. W. A. Coulson, Earlwood, the Rev. L. Peacock, Earlwood, and the Rev. Dyer, Windsor, who are travelling down the Murrum-bidgee River in a 22ft skiff, arrived at ...

    Article : 50 words
  23. TEMORA WATER CONSUMPTION.

    For the first 12 months of the Burrinjuck scheme, ended on December 31, Temora's consumption of water exceeded 32,000,000 gallons; but, as consumers are being added ...

    Article : 48 words
  24. AIR MAIL DELAYS.

    Referring, to complaints from Australia at the recurring delays in the arrival of the English air mail, Imperial Airways state that these have been due entirely to the abnormally ...

    Article : 130 words
  25. THE CALL-UP.

    A call-up for employment is announced to-day. Details are published on page 18, columns 4 and 7. ...

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  26. AUSTRALIAN WHISKY.

    The chairman of the United Distillers Pty., Ltd. (Mr. Ben Chaffey), in a letter to the Editor of the "Herald," refers to a statement by Mr. W. R. Robertson, a Scottish distiller, ...

    Article : 185 words
  27. DUBBO DISTRICT AMBULANCE.

    Since Superintendent Dolan introduced new equipment and commenced to reorganise the Dubbo District Ambulance five months ago, the number of cases treated and the miles ...

    Article : 53 words
  28. INDEX.

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  29. QUEANBEYAN WORKS PROTEST.

    A deputation from the Sewer Workers' Association waited on the municipal council last night with the proposal that united action should be taken in an endeavour to improve ...

    Article : 130 words
  30. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Gold was quoted to-day at £7/0/11½ an ounce fine, compared with £7/1/0½ yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The United States dollar was quoted to-day ...

    Article : 602 words
  31. NEW L.B.W. RULE.

    The M.C.C. is writing to those countries represented at the Imperial Cricket Conference with regard to the leg-before-wicket rule experiment. ...

    Article : 114 words
  32. MANLY TELEPHONES

    From 7.30 o'clock yesterday morning, the Manly, Mona Vale, and Deewhy telephone service from the city and suburbs was cut off owing to a break in the main cable at Spit ...

    Article : 269 words
  33. ANTI-FOULING.

    Exhaustive tests of an anti-fouling invention designed for ships' hulls, which are being closely watched by the Navy, shipping companies, and Sydney and Melbourne ...

    Article : 238 words
  34. SPOILT BROADCAST.

    The jamming or radio station 1ZB in Auckland on November 24 was done under the instructions of responsible officers, with the then Postmaster-General's consent to the ...

    Article : 234 words
  35. RAID ON SALOON.

    When police, headed by Inspector Armstrong, raided a local hairdressing saloon for an alleged breach of the Gaming Act, more than 20 men, it is alleged, were found on ...

    Article : 85 words
  36. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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  37. WORLD'S GREAT MEN.

    The chief inspector of schools in New South Wales (Mr. B. C. Harkness), in officially welcoming a team of Victorian school teacher cricketers yesterday, related an incident ...

    Article : 319 words
  38. BATHURST BUILDING ACTIVITY.

    The improvement in the local building trade was marked last year. The expenditure on buildings approved by the council increased by £10,000. A number of building ...

    Article : 56 words
  39. CHARITIES ACT

    At yesterday's meeting of the Executive Council it was decided that section 3 of the Charitable Collections Act will come into operation on February 1. ...

    Article : 115 words
  40. KICKED BY HORSE.

    Kicked on the head by a horse at Bathurst William Hamer, 60, suffered a fractured skull and an injury to an eye. Hamer was examining a shoe on the horse's hind foot when the ...

    Article : 59 words
  41. WYANGALA DAM.

    At the recently built Wyangala Dam the water is stored to about 23 feet below the overflow, and is still rising. The water is now impounded for many miles up the river, ...

    Article : 61 words
  42. TRADING BY COUNCILS.

    The president of the Retail Traders' Association (Mr. Millin), commenting yesterday on the announcement of the Minister for Local Government (Mr. Spooner) that a ...

    Article : 169 words
  43. HORSEMAN'S ESCAPE.

    John Lynn, of South Casino, had a narrow escape from death this morning when, thrown from a horse on to the railway line in front of the oncoming Brisbane express, he was ...

    Article : 171 words
  44. AUSTRALIAN FRUIT.

    Mr. A. M. Persson, who returned to Sydney yesterday by the Mongolia, after a business trip to Sweden, said that he intended to purchase at least 60,000 cases of Australian fresh fruit ...

    Article : 93 words
  45. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 211 words
  46. CASUALTIES.

    Minnie O'Connor, 55, of Gipps-street, Paddington, had both her arms fractured last night, when she was knocked down by a motor cycle in Oxford-street, Darlinghurst. The ...

    Article : 200 words
  47. DR. PAGE'S MISSION.

    The Minister for Commerce (Dr. Page) said to-night that he did not intend to visit New Zealand and Canada for trade discussions on his way to the world sugar conference. He ...

    Article : 217 words
  48. QUARRY CLOSES.

    The shipping strike has caused the closing of the silica quarry of Newbolds, Ltd., Banister Point, Milton, and the 30 employees have been paid off. The quarry supplies ...

    Article : 122 words
  49. MIST ON MOUNTAINS

    Poor visibility on the Mountains twice compelled Pilot R. Nicholl, who was flying a Codock machine, to return to Mascot aerodrome yesterday morning. About 10 o'clock ...

    Article : 89 words
  50. SALVATION ARMY CADETS.

    At the Congress Hall last night, 43 Salvation Army cadets who have completed a ten months' course of training at the Officers' Training College, Melbourne, were welcomed ...

    Article : 117 words
  51. HOSPITAL PATIENT

    Detectives arrested Edward Miller, 39, of Fitzroy, as soon as he was discharged to-night from the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where he was being treated for supposed poisoning. ...

    Article : 90 words
  52. SUBURBAN PICTURE THEATRES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 18 words
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