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  2. INQUIRY URGED.

    In a statement which was published in the "Herald" on February 4, Mr. A. Macalister Blain, M.P. for the Northern Territory, warned investors against placing money in Northern ...

    Article : 244 words
  3. COUNTRY NEWS. MUNICIPAL AMALGAMATION OPPOSED.

    A local government inquiry has been fixed to be held at Blayney on March 12 into the proposed amalgamation of the Blayney municipality with the Carcoar and Lyndhurst ...

    Article : 71 words
  4. GRAZIER'S ESTATE.

    In April last year, Henry August Jansen, known professionally as Dante, an illusionist, secured a verdict for £900 and about £1200 costs against Ge[?]rey Allan Everett, ...

    Article : 141 words
  5. "NEW FACES."

    Through one of those sudden changes inseparable from the theatrical business the Tivoli Theatre, which 24 hours earlier had housed "Tristan and Isolde," was devoted last ...

    Article : 462 words
  6. THE TROLLY-BUS.

    Since the publication of my articles on the trolly-bus in the "Herald" (9/2/'35 and 11/2/'35), two important announcements on this subject have been made. ...

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  7. CHANGES MADE.

    Important changes are to be made in the form of competitive examination for the admittance of youths to the Federal Public Service. ...

    Article : 452 words
  8. MILK SCHEME.

    The Dairy Farmers' Co-operative Milt Company, Ltd., has prepared a scheme for the scientific treatment and bottling of all its milk supplies. ...

    Article : 76 words
  9. HIGHER REVENUE.

    Customs and excise revenue for the first eight months of the current financial year totalled £25,385,942, an increase of £2,379,542 of the amount for the corresponding period ...

    Article : 265 words
  10. ARREARS OF RATES.

    The rate reduction decided upon by the Dubbo Council has made it necessary to force the payment of arrears, which amounted to more than £33,000 at the beginning of the ...

    Article : 125 words
  11. MR. BRUXNER.

    At a meeting of the Tenterfield electorate council to-day, the Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner) was unanimously endorsed for selection as the Country party candidate at the ...

    Article : 220 words
  12. PIRE AT HOLBROOK.

    A fire which broke out at the rear of Meredith's service station at 2 o'clock this morning totally destroyed the garage, two bulk stores, and the Country Women's ...

    Article : 89 words
  13. GAS WORKS.

    At a meeting of residents of Waverton and Wollstonecraft, held at Waverton last night, there was much criticism of the North Shore Gas Co., in relation to alleged noises and ...

    Article : 362 words
  14. AIR SERVICES MERGE.

    Sir Charles Kingsford Smith announced yesterday that the Kingsford Smith Air Service had amalgamated with Eastern Air Transport. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith said that ...

    Article : 278 words
  15. LIQUOR CHARGES FAIL.

    At the Moree Police Court, Robert E. Cooper, storekeeper and wine saloon proprietor, of Neeworra (near Mungindi) was proceeded against under Section 164 of the Liquor Act ...

    Article : 200 words
  16. UNFIT TO DRINK.

    At the annual meeting of the Dungog Patents and Citizens' Association. Dr. G. M. B. Hales condemned the Dungog water supply. Mr. J. Doyle, headmaster of the school, ...

    Article : 234 words
  17. "WORLD CONSCIENCE."

    Mr. J. V. Wilson, chief of the central section of the League of Nations Secretariat, visited Canberra to-day, to establish direct liaison between the League and the Commonwealth ...

    Article : 209 words
  18. BYRD EXPEDITION.

    A Dunedin message states that in the course of a conversation, entirely unofficial, between the Governor-General (Lord Bledisloe) and Rear-Admiral Byrd, the question of territorial ...

    Article : 142 words
  19. LABOUR BAN.

    Soon after it was announced that Herr Egon Kisch would address several election meetings of the Labour and Communist parties to-night, a direction was issued by the ...

    Article : 102 words
  20. PROPOSED NEW RESERVOIR.

    The Public Works Department has suggested to Moree Council that an additional reservoir should be placed at the corner of Boston and Heber streets, in order to improve the town ...

    Article : 142 words
  21. MAIL 'PLANE

    When the Qantas DH86 mail 'plane left Darwin this morning with the London-bound mail for Singapore, it carried three pilots, a wireless operator, and an engineer. Captain ...

    Article : 178 words
  22. DELUGE CONTINUES.

    North Queensland is still deluged by rain. On two successive days. Tully has registered 10 inches. Raliway, mail, and road traffic is practically at a standstill. Innisfail, Mossman, ...

    Article : 46 words
  23. COAST ROAD CONDEMNED.

    After making an inspection of the route of a proposed road alone the coast, connecting with existing roads and providing a continuous link from the Moobalto Beach road to Cudgen ...

    Article : 109 words
  24. COMEDY JIM.

    Evidence for the defence was heard yesterday in the case at the Quarter Sessions before Judge White in which James Henry O'Connor, 55, horse trainer, was called upon ...

    Article : 228 words
  25. COAL PRICES.

    Mr. Justice Davidson, sitting as an umpire in private arbitration, completed this week the task of determining a large number of questions relating to the ultimate fixation of the ...

    Article : 185 words
  26. UNEMPLOYED BOYS.

    Mr. F. H. Stewart, Under-secretary in Charge of Re-employment, has offered the use of his model farm at Dundas to the committee of the Boys on Farms Scheme. ...

    Article : 210 words
  27. Advertising

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    Advertising : 17 words
  28. OBITUARY. MR. JAMES BAXENDALE.

    The Education Department and scholastic institutions were represented at the funeral in Waverley Cemetery yesterday of Mr. James Baxendale, a member of the teaching staff of ...

    Article : 492 words
  29. INCENDIARISM ALLEGED.

    Willie Hing, alias Chin Tan, who cave his age as 65, was charged in the Parkes Police Court this morning with having attempted to set fire to the Parkes Hotel on February ...

    Article : 76 words
  30. EGG THROWN.

    Although some persons spent a considerable sum of money on buying eggs at a grocer's shop near the scene of a meeting held in support of Colonel Harold Cohen, the endorsed ...

    Article : 158 words
  31. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 289 words
  32. CASUALTIES.

    Norman John Ross, 22, was found dead in the bathroom of his flat is Gosbell-street, Paddington, yesterday. A note on the bathroom door read, "Beware of the gas. Ring ...

    Article : 573 words
  33. PROMINENT FIGURE PASSES.

    The death has occurred of Mr. C. Seckold, J.P., aged 76. He was a member of the Manchester Unity Order of Oddfellows for more than 43 years, and has passed through all the ...

    Article : 99 words
  34. REGISTERED ARTICLES.

    The Postal Department stated yesterday that the regulations relating to the registration of postal articles had now been altered so as to entitle the sender to compensation for ...

    Article : 181 words
  35. PARENTS' AND CITIZENS' MOVEMENT.

    At the annual meeting of the Bateman's Bay Parents and Citizens' Association the following officers were elected:—President, Mr. A. E. Ryan; vice-presidents. Mesdames Thomas ...

    Article : 120 words
  36. LOTTERY DRAWING.

    The principal prizes in the 252nd State lottery were drawn at the Australian Hall yesterday morning by Mr. Charles Isles, a city business man. ...

    Article : 90 words
  37. BERRIQUIN.

    The Premier (Mr. Stevens) announced yesterday that a start would be made next week with the Berriquin irrigation scheme. Sufficient money would be made available ...

    Article : 58 words
  38. TRADE TREATIES.

    Mr. Hunter, M.P., Minister without portfolio, said at Dalby to-day that a basis of agreement had been reached in the trade treaty negotiations with Japan, and that ...

    Article : 90 words
  39. Advertising

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    Advertising : 274 words
  40. DUBBO WATER SUPPLY.

    At a meeting of the Dubbo Council, aldermen criticised the Public Works Department for delay in the completion of the Dubbo water supply augmentation. It is feared that ...

    Article : 69 words
  41. WEEK-END WEATHER

    At Sydney the weather during the week-end is likely to be fine and warm to sultry, although there is a possibility, according to the Weather Bureau, of scattered ...

    Article : 66 words
  42. AIR MAIL LINER.

    The Qantas air liner Brisbane, which left Darwin this morning with the mail, had a record trip to Koepang. It covered the 518 miles' flight across the Timor Sea in 2 hours ...

    Article : 71 words
  43. YALLOURN OPEN CUT.

    The coal surface of the Yallourn open cut has appeared above the receding flood waters, which have occupied the cut since December 1. More than 1,500,000,000 gallons of the ...

    Article : 99 words
  44. SNAKE UNDER WOMAN'S FEET.

    While Miss Eva Dallinger, of Mungabareena, was driving a gig to Albury to-day, she noticed a fold in the mat on which her feet were resting. She lifted the mat and found coiled ...

    Article : 53 words
  45. DAVID MEMORIAL FUND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 110 words
  46. AN APPRECIATION.

    Any of his old pupils who have not seen "Baxy" for some years will remember most his jovial rubicund face and slow manner of speech. He was the kind of man who left a ...

    Article : 150 words
  47. GUILTY OF RECEIVING.

    Before Judge Barton, at the Forbes Quarter Sessions. Clement Victor Amey was charged with having stolen a chestnut draught mare, valued at £35, the property of Grant ...

    Article : 75 words
  48. POLICE SEARCH

    Squads of detectives and police systematically scoured the scrub around the the Pentecost Highway, st. Ives, yesterday afternoon in search of man who is suspected of having ...

    Article : 283 words
  49. MAN FALLS INTO WELL.

    Arthur Tutton, while working 20 feet from the surface in a well 80 feet deep on a small farm near Mt. Isa, was struck on the head by a falling object. Tutton fell to the bottom ...

    Article : 124 words
  50. SUBVENTION SUBSCRIPTIONS.

    Bro. W. Goodwin, grand master of the I.O.O.F. of New South Wales, during an address to the Tamworth Lodge, said it was impossible to assess what the Government ...

    Article : 70 words
  51. SCOTTISH REGIMENT.

    Intending recruits for the New South Wales Scottish Regiment are requested to report for enlistment at H.Q., 30/51 Bn., Drill Hall, Miller's Point, on March 13 and 14, or ...

    Article : 155 words
  52. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 227 words
  53. GAS EMPLOYEES.

    About 500 gas employees, at a meeting in the Trades Hall last night, decided to give the metropolitan gas companies 14 days in which to reach a settlement with regard to ...

    Article : 77 words
  54. MRS. S. M. AVERY.

    The death occurred last Sunday of Mrs. S. M. Avery, aged 83 years. The late Mrs. Avery was a well-known church and philanthropic worker. She was ...

    Article : 78 words
  55. BOYS FALL FROM VEHICLES.

    Russell Thomas. 7, fell from a motor bus to the roadway. Robert Dingwall fell from a cart driven by his father. His head struck the roadway. Both boys suffered head ...

    Article : 45 words
  56. LADY YOUNG MISSING.

    Two aeroplanes are searching for Lady Young, wife of the Governor of Northern Rhodesia (Sir Hubert Young), who left Livingstone yesterday morning in her own ...

    Article : 72 words
  57. NEW COUNCIL CHAMBERS.

    A suggestion that the Moree Municipal Council should take over the Memorial Hall, on which there is a debt of £6000, and convert it into council chambers, has been made ...

    Article : 95 words
  58. SIR HOLBURT WARING.

    The president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (Sir Holburt Waring) arrived in Melbourne to-day on a special visit to open officially the permanent home of the Royal ...

    Article : 44 words
  59. TOPOGRAPHICAL MAPS.

    Dr. Arthur Wade, an English geologist, who, since November, 1933. has been examining concessions of the Freney Kimberley Oil Company in the West Kimberley district, said ...

    Article : 129 words
  60. ALDERMAN H. COLQUHOUN.

    Alderman Hugh Colquhoun, who died on Thursday, aged 50 years, was elected a member of Granville Council last December. He came from Scotland when a boy, had been a ...

    Article : 76 words
  61. CONTRACT BRIDGE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 143 words
  62. FREAK AT TINGHA.

    A fox-terrier pup which in several respects is like a rabbit is in the possession of W. J. Broun, Bassendean, Tingha. The front legs are much shorter than the ...

    Article : 87 words
  63. WINE GRAPE PRICES.

    The Commissioner of Crown Lands (Mr. McIntosh) said in the House of Assembly that the Government did not intend to proceed with legislation for fixing wine grape prices. The ...

    Article : 70 words
  64. COLLIERY STOPPAGE.

    Lithgow Valley colliery, which was idle yesterday, did not resume operations to-day. The secretary of the miners' lodge (Mr. J. Patience) said that, as the matters at issue were not ...

    Article : 41 words
  65. CONSTABLE ASSAULTED.

    At the Tumut Police Court, before Messrs. R. L. Blakeney and T. E. Wilkinson, Js.P., Percy Culvert was fined £5 for having assaulted Constable Sullivan in the execution of ...

    Article : 54 words
  66. UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP.

    The resident scholarship granted on the result of the leaving certificate examination, each year, by the council of St. Andrew's College, University of Sydney, to a pupil of ...

    Article : 40 words
  67. NEW COLLEGE FOR DUBBO.

    It has been decided to raise funds to construct a new De La Sal[?] College at Dubbo. ...

    Article : 24 words
  68. Advertising

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    Advertising : 16 words
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