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  2. CANBERRA NEWS.

    Miss Enid Lyons, daughter of the Prime Minister, received a prize for English literature in the Intermediate Examination, at the annual distribution of prizes to pupils of St. ...

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  3. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Albury sportsmen decided at a meeting to request the Chief Secretary to change the date of the opening of the duck season to February 16, as it had been found that the ...

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  4. AIR MARATHON.

    France's international air marathon, which is to be held next year, promises thrills that should rival last year's great race from Mildenhall to Melbourne. The race will take place ...

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  5. CANADA'S DEBTS.

    A proposal—similar to the Australian Premiers' plan—to fund the entire 4,000,000,000 dollar public debt of Canada at a rate just exceeding 3 per cent., instead of 5 per cent., ...

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  6. REARMAMENT

    The Minister for Finance (Count von Krosigk) said that German people must be prepared for every sacrifice to permit rearmament, despite the fact that the public ...

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  7. SILVER MARKET.

    The United States Government yesterday suspended the policy of supporting the silver market, with the result that world-wide trade in silver became chaotic. ...

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  8. TRAUTWEIN CASE.

    The taking of oral evidence in support of the appeal of Theodore Charles Trautwein, M.L.C., against Federal income tax assessments for the years 1921-27, was concluded in the ...

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  9. NEW PRESIDENT.

    Dr. Robert K. Murphy, lecturer-in-charge of chemistry and head of the science department, Sydney Technical College, has been elected general president of the Australian ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  10. WORKS AT COFF'S HARBOUR.

    The Dorrigo Shire Council has decided to proceed with the construction of a vehicle bridge over Coff's Crek to Park Beach, which is one of the most popular tourist resorts ...

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  11. SHIRE RELIEF WORK STOPPED.

    The Orara Shire Council received a letter from the Local Government Department advising the discontinuance of emergency relief work in the shire, but the council decided ...

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  12. NEWCASTLE NEWS.

    Newcastle police were informed to-day that two small iron spikes had been found on a set of rails on the main northern railway line, near Cardiff, last night. The spikes ...

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  13. 40-HOUR WEEK.

    At the meeting of the Gulgong Municipal Council the Federated Municipal and Shire Council Employees' Union of Australia sought support for a 40-hour working week. It was ...

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  14. DUMPING DUTIES.

    The Department of National Revenue has announced that dumping duties based on arbitrary valuations against British goods will be discontinued, thus terminating one phase ...

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  15. LISMORE WATER SUPPLY.

    There was some caustic comment by L[?]more aldermen when the council was informed by the Public Works Department that the council's application for a new reservoir and ...

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  16. LORD DE CLIFFORD.

    Lord De Clifford was acquitted on a charge of manslaughter by the House of Lords. The charge arose from a motoring fatality. The Advisory Judges upheld a submission ...

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  17. "THE IRON MULE."

    "The 'motorised mule' is the unit of Italy's highly mechanised army in East Africa which has made the greatest impression on me," declares the British United Press special ...

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  18. ATLANTIC AIR RIVALRY

    So important to the world communications is regular air transport across the North Atlantic that already, at least two years before it ca[?] be realised, it is, in the opinion of ...

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  19. LOST CONTINENTS.

    Exploration of the ocean depths in quest of data regarding continents that have disappeared is envisaged by Rear-Admiral Byrd as the next sphere of scientific discovery. ...

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  20. CHINA'S PROBLEMS.

    On November 2 Shanghai received a flying visit from the Vice-President of the united States and a number of Senators and Representatives, who were en route to Manila to ...

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  21. ALL BLACKS.

    At half-time in the Rugby Union match between the New Zealand All Blacks and Midlands district, the New Zealanders were leading by 11 to nil. ...

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  22. NYNGAN BUILDING ACTIVITY.

    About £20,000 worth of buildings, erected in Nyngan this year, include the new Commonwealth Bank, at a cost of £4000. Fourteen cottages have been built, compared with ...

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  23. MISSING SAILOR.

    The body of James Taylor, 22, a porter on the Matson liner Monterey, who had been missing from the ship since Sunday night, was found in the sea near the Town Pier, ...

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  24. AGENT CHARGED.

    Objection was raised by Mr. Barry (Crown Solicitor's Office) to the production by bank officers of statements of the bank accounts of Sim Rubensohn, a witness for the ...

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  25. AGED WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE.

    During the "Back to Dubbo" Week Mrs. E. J. Thomas, 75, saw the park and streets of Dubbo for the first time in 48 years, although she had lived in the town for half a ...

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  26. EGYPTIAN CABINET.

    The Egyptian Cabinet decided not to resign, as King Fuad agreed to restore the 1923 Constitution. ...

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  27. DEBATING COMPETITION.

    For several months, public debates have been in progress for a cup presented by the Apex Club. The final, between the returned soldiers' team and the tutorial class, resulted ...

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  28. RED HILL RAILWAY.

    An early start with the State section of the Red Hill-Port Augusta railway is expected as a result of the passing of the bill to ratify the scheme in the Legislative Council to-day. ...

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  29. TAXI-CAB RESTRICTIONS.

    The Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner), speaking at the opening of the De Luxe Car Service Trading Co-operative Society's new head office and service station in Palmer-street ...

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  30. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The price of gold to-day was £7/1/2 an ounce fine, compared with £7/1/2½ yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. ...

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  31. WAR DEBT.

    The British Government to-day notified the United States Government that Britain would not meet the war debt payment due on December 15. ...

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  32. THEFT CHARGE.

    Pleading guilty at the Coff's Harbour Police Court, before Mr. Bliss, P.M., Leslie Ireland, 23, Raymond Ireland, 20, and Robert Henry Turner, 20, charged with having stolen 40 ...

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  33. MATERNITY BLOCKS.

    A meeting of the directors of the Tamworth Base Hospital approved of the Public Works Department calling tenders for the erection of quarters for the male staff at a cost of £495, ...

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  34. DOGMAN INJURED.

    Roy Collins, 37, of Westmoreland-street, Glebe, employed as a dogman on a building in Bligh-street, city, suffered a severe shock yesterday afternoon, when his box came in ...

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  35. THE CALL-UP.

    A call-up for employment is announced to-day. Details are published on page 22, columns 5 and 7. ...

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  36. JUDGE AWARDS £50 DAMAGES.

    In the Lismore District Court, Judge Clancy returned a verdict for £50 in favour of Junga, a Hindu market gardener, against James Lulham, of Coraki. ...

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  37. INDEX.

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  38. TWO TORCHES

    Mr. Bliss, P.M., in the Coff's Harbour Police Court, dismissed an information laid against Osmund C. Sawtell by the police, following a collision between Sawtell's car and a sulky, ...

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  39. TARRANT'S TEAM.

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  40. GLIDER FOR BOWRAL.

    A branch of the Australian Air League was recently formed here, and it now has wore than 50 members enrolled. Funds are being raised to construct a glider. ...

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  41. CHRISTMAS LAMBS.

    To mark the arrival of consignments of Australian Christmas gift lambs, the High Commissioner (Mr. Bruce) entertained a distinguished gathering at Australia House, ...

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  42. DIAL "S.V.P."

    M. Mandel, French Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, has added a general information department to the Paris telephone system. It will answer questions, solve any problem, and ...

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  43. ACCIDENT VICTIM IDENTIFIED.

    The Wagga police were advised to-aay that the young man who was killed near Wagga, a fortnigth ago, when he was riding on top of an express train, has been identified as ...

    Article : 79 words
  44. SALVATION ARMY.

    Lieutenant-Commissioner Charles Baugh, auditor-general of the Salvation Army, was welcomed to Sydney by corps commanders, under the leadership of Colonel A. Cross, in ...

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  45. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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  46. RIVAL AMBULANCE SERVICES.

    At a meeting of the board of directors of the Bulli Hospital, a communication was received from the Hospitals Commission suggesting that the hospital ambulance should be ...

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  47. FRANCE'S PEASANT FRONT.

    Under the leadership of M. Henri Dorgeres, editor of a weekly agricultural journal, the peasant front is assuming an increasingly important place in French political life. Until ...

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  48. ONE-ACT PLAYS.

    Last night, at the Burlakov Studio, Mr. J. Milano Garti presented two of his own one-act musical plays, "Flower of All" and "The Gypsy Countess." The first one was ...

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  49. FALL FROM TELEGRAPH POLE.

    Henry William Drier, a telegrapn linesman, received a fracture of the spine when he felt 20 feet from a telegraph pole on the Nymbo[?]da road to-day. ...

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  50. NEW LIONS' PIT.

    The Minister for Labour (Mr. Dunningham) told the trustees of Taronga Park yesterday that, during his recent trip abroad, he had visited the zoos in India, England, on ...

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  51. VERDICT OF SUICIDE.

    At the inquest to-day on an unidentified man, who was found lying dead on the Wa[?]cha road, with his head blown away, a note which was found at the dead man's camp was ...

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  52. NAZIS AND YOUTH.

    A judgment which reflects unfavourably on the claims of German Ministers that the State does not interfere with the freedom of religious conscience has been delivered by the ...

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  53. UNKNOWN MAN KILLED.

    An unidentified man was killed instantly when he was knocked from the footboard of an Abbotsford-bound tram by a tram passing in the opposite direction, in Parramatta-road, ...

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  54. TO-DAY.

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  55. AIR SERVICE.

    The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that complete agreement between the United States and Great Britain and Ireland for reciprocal privileges for ...

    Article : 148 words
  56. CAR RUNS OVER CULVERT.

    Six passengers travelling from Goulburn to Braidwood by service car had a remarkable escape near Lake Bathurst. When the driver swerved to avoid two approaching cars, the ...

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  57. LATE SPORTING.

    At Crawley Baths to-night, Percy Oliver broke the Australian 400 metres backstroke record, held by T. Withers, of Victoria, by 23 3-5s. Withers's time for the distance was 6m 11 3-5s, and Oliver's time 5m ...

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  58. ANGLO-FRENCH PLAN.

    It is understood that the Federal Cabinet at its meeting to-day had before it a draft of the details of the Anglo-French plan. Although the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) declined to ...

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  59. LATE COMMERCIAL.

    Australian records for comeback fleece, merino broken fleeces, and merino lambs were broken at the concluding day of the fifth Geelong wool sales to-day. Comeback fleeces brought to /26½, merino ...

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  60. BUSHFIRE.

    A serious bushfire at Yarragundry to-day menaced a large area of ripe wheat crops in a closely settled district. The fire occurred in the property of Mr. E. M. Perdriau. For ...

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  61. TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILWAY

    Two extra trains will run next week to accommodate the heavy traffic on the transcontinental railway. The first will leave Port Augusta (S.A.) next Wednesday, December 18, ...

    Article : 55 words
  62. SUBURBAN PICTURE THEATRES.

    Programmes of suburban Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertisement Columns. ...

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