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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    More than 400 people were present at Wollongbar last night to witness the switching on of electricity at Wollongbar Hall. The ceremony was performed by an old resident ...

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  3. 100 TO-DAY.

    Mrs. Caroline Charnock, of Victoria-street, Granville, will celebrate her 100th birthday to-day. Born eight miles from Sydney, in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. MEAT EXPORTS.

    It is feared in Canberra that the latest plan to control Australian exports of meat to Britain by a duty instead of a quota may break down completely. ...

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  5. WATER BOARD.

    Twenty eight nominations for five seats on the newly-reconstituted Water Board were received yesterday when nominations for the elections on March 21 closed with the ...

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  6. THREE MEN CHARGED.

    Before Mr. Gibson, S.M., at the Central Police Court. James William Recce, 39, traveller, was charged with having, at Waverley, on January 8, obtained from Cecil James ...

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  7. DUKE OF GLOUCESTER.

    We arrived at Balboa with the ruel reserves untouched, and took in sufficient to take us to Jamaica, where we will fill up. The dislocation of the schedule due to the ...

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  8. YOUNG MAN SHOT.

    Detective-sergeant James, who was sent from Sydney, and Detective Bodel, of Goulburn, continued their investigations yesterday into the death of Norman McKenzie ...

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  9. METHODIST CHURCH.

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  10. HOUSE RANSACKED.

    A house on the Bega River, owned by S. Vinton and R. Disher, two Bega business men was ransacked by thieves, almost everything being stolen, including a £60 wireless set. An ...

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  11. FIRE DESTROYS MOTOR LORRY.

    A large motor lorry belonging to Mr. J. J. Glass was destroyed by fire near the home of Mr. J. Mowsar, of Marrar, while drums of petrol were being delivered. The quick removal ...

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  12. £1500 DAMAGE.

    Practically the whole of the stock in the Self Help Stores, Lithgow, was destroyed by fire last night. The damage is estimated at about £1500, but the contents of the stores ...

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  13. MUSWELT BROOK RODEO.

    The rodeo conducted by the Upper Hunter Show Society concluded last night. The chief attraction was a display of cattle throwing and steer riding by three American cowboys, ...

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  14. RADIUM WORTH £500

    Officials of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital arc conducting a search for about £500 worth of radium, which has been lost from the body of a patient. ...

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  15. PISTOL LICENCE.

    At Orange Police Court, Constable Saxon appealed against the decision of Inspector Hamilton on his application for a pistol licence. ...

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  16. UNITED STATES.

    President Roosevelt to-day proposed to Congress, in a special message, the termination of the present ocean mail contracts and the maintenance of an "adequate merchant ...

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  17. THIEVES IN REFRESHMENT ROOMS.

    The railway refreshment rooms were broken into early this morning. A cash register in the bar was rifled, and the cash register in the refreshment room was carried out and ...

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  18. WEST WYALONG BABY CLINIC.

    West Wyalong branch of the Country Women's Association is making excellent progress in the establishment of a baby clinic, and the first function conducted raised £20. ...

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  19. DECORATION ALLOWANCES.

    Advice has been received in Sydney that certain former officers of the A.I.F. who were awarded decorations during the war were entitled to payment of allowances in respect ...

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  20. TEAM WORK

    The president of the Chamber of Manufactures (Mr. C. V. Potts), speaking at the monthly luncheon of the Australian Natives' Association, held in Nock and Kirby's banquet ...

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  21. CANCER CURES.

    The need for the early treatment of cancer was emphasised at the conference of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons to-day. Professor Dean Lewis, of the John Hopkins ...

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  22. STEAMER GRAZES BREAKWATER.

    While crossing the Greymouth bar yesterday morning, the steamer Mernoo grazed the south breakwater. The vessel put back to the wharf, where a preliminary examination ...

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  23. TRADE BY BARTER.

    Addressing business men at the Liepzig Spring Fair, Dr. Schacht, who is Minister for Economics and president of the Reichsbank, said that it was daily becoming more obvious ...

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  24. AMBULANCE TRANSPORT

    The report of the Ambulance Transport Service Board tabled in Parliament yesterday stated that during the year ended June 30 last the number of cases dealt with totalled ...

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  25. DEMAND FOR LAND.

    Among land and leases sold at auction by Mr. P. M. Bourke on Saturday was 640 acres freehold, almost unimproved, which was knocked down at £4/7/6 an acre. The buyer ...

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  26. BYRD EXPEDITION.

    Ivor Tingloff, carpenter, aged 40, married, of Boston, a member of the Byrd expedition, died in the Dunedin Hospital last night. Tingloff was admitted to hospital when the ...

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  27. THE CALL-UP.

    A call-up for employment is announced for to-day. Details appear on page 24, column 3. ...

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  28. AXEMAN INJURED.

    While felling a tree on his property, at Oakwood, Wollondilly, William Goodfellow, 22, a grazier, inflicted a deep gash on a foot. Suffering from loss of blood, he mounted a ...

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  29. INDEX.

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  30. SHUNTER INJURED.

    Catching his right hand between the buffers of two tiucks he was shunting in Bathurst railway yards, William Power, 36, shunter, had practically the whole of the flesh stripped to ...

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  31. STERLING.

    The City Editor of the "Daily Telegraph" says: "After wild fluctuations, the morning fall in the pound yesterday was arrested during the afternoon. It is generally understood that ...

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  32. ASH WEDNESDAY.

    Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lenten season, will be celebrated throughout the world to-day. In the principal Anglican churches in the ...

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  33. BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR.

    Replying to questions in the House of Commons to-day, the Parliamentary Secretary of the Department of Oversea Trade (Mr. D. J. Colville) said that the British Industries Fair ...

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  34. CLAIM AGAINST HOTELKEEPER.

    Two robberies were reported to have occurred at the Grand Hotel, Bathurst, on September 19. Edward Hickey, retired engineer, of Waverley, reported the loss of £14 in ...

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  35. AIR MAILS.

    Advice was received in Darwin to-day that the Imperial Airways 'plane carrying English mails to Singapore has been delayed. The mail 'plane from Singapore will not ...

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  36. EVIDENCE RETRACTED.

    A case that was being heard before Judge Barton, at the Forbes Quarter Sessions, in which George Chenery, a union organiser, was charged with wool stealing, ended ...

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  37. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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  38. THE KING'S JUBILEE.

    Replying in the House of Commons to-day to the suggestion that soldiers who had fought under Queen Victoria, King Edward, and King George should participate in his Majesty's ...

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  39. PUNT'S SAFETY QUESTIONED.

    People of the district have nicknamed the Ashby-Maclean punt the "collin ship," according to a deputation which waited on the Minister for Labour (Mr. Dunningham) and ...

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  40. POPULATION.

    A summary or oversea migration for 1934, completed to-day by the Commonwealth Statistician (Mr. E. T. McPhee) shows that there was a gain of population in the year, due to ...

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  41. BISHOP WADE.

    Dr. Thomas Wade (Bishop of the Northern Solomon Islands) will leave Sydney to-day by the Mariposa for San Francisco. He will travel across America by easy stages to ...

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  42. "RED" CHINA.

    Mr. V. Y. Chow, a former editor of the "United China Magazine," Shanghai, in an address on "China To-day" before a crowded audience in Leigh House last night, stated ...

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  43. FILM SOUND PROCESS.

    William Fox's long legal fight to regain a dominant position in the motion picture industry failed to-day, when the Supreme Court ruled that the basic patents he held for the ...

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  44. METEOR AT COOLAMON.

    A large meteor of dazzling brightness, which lit up the countryside, passed over the district from north-east to south-west at 8.55 p.m. yesterday. ...

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  45. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The price of gold to-day was £7/7/10½ an ounce fine, compared with £7/8/10 yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The United States dollar was quoted to-day ...

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  46. MISSIONARIES' DEATH.

    Conflicting information regarding the missionaries in China, who were reported recently to have been murdered or taken captive by Communists, has been received by Dr. J. J. ...

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  47. CASUALTIES.

    Robert Robertson Craig, 53, a retired publican, who was a well-known footballer and swimmer in his youth, was found hanged in a hospital in Leichhardt yesterday. He had ...

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  48. MISSING WOMAN.

    More than 20 police, assisted by about 100 civilians, are searching the scrub in North Ryde for Mrs. Jessie Gillies, 76, who has been missing from her home in Lane Cove-road, North ...

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  49. CHILD'S ESCAPE.

    A two-year-old child had a remarkable escape from death to-day, when it fell from the Kalgoorlie express, travelling at about 40 miles an hour, near the Wooroloo Siding, 37 ...

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  50. TO-DAY.

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  51. WIRELESS TELEPHONE

    A direct radio telephone service between Britain and Japan will be inaugurated at 9 a.m. on March 12 with an exchange of greetings between the representatives of the British ...

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  52. CROSSING THE LINE.

    We crossed the line with full ceremonial of Father Neptune's Court. Mr. and Mrs. Lyons did not escape trial, but were spared the ducking, which the less favoured "prisoners" ...

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  53. POISON IN PORRIDGE.

    Owing to an error in transmission by telegram of the report of the case at the Wollongong Quarter Sessions, in which Leslie Eldred Keene was found guilty of having caused ...

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  54. BRIDGE TAX.

    The proposal made by the Kuring-gai Council that the local government bodies charged with the special Sydney Harbour Bridge rate should withhold the payment of ...

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  55. BANDIT "KING"

    Andre Spada, the Corsican bandit "king," who for 11 year terrorised the interior of the island, will appear at Bastia to-day on seven charges of murder and attempted murder. ...

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  56. FALL UNDER TRAIN.

    Mrs. J. Burns, of Merewether, found that she was being overcarried by a passenger train which had just begun to move out of Beresford Railway Station this afternoon. She ...

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  57. FRANCONIA TOURISTS.

    About 300 tourists from the luxury liner, Franconia, visiting Sydney on a world cruise, attended Aqua Flora Park, Sandringham, yesterday afternoon. The most popular exhibit ...

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  58. TWO WOMEN INJURED.

    Two women were injured yesterday when the car in which they were riding collided with a police car at the intersection of George and Goulburn streets, city. They were: ...

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  59. MINIMUM BUILDING AREA.

    It was decided by Drummoyne Council last night to increase the minimum area or any allotment of land in future subdivisions, on which a dwelling house may be erected, in all ...

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  60. LORD NUFFIELD'S GIFT TO NEW ZEALAND.

    The formation of a national trust to administer Lord Nuffield's gift of £60,000 for crippled children is projected. The gift has made a big impression throughout the ...

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  61. HONG KONG FAIR.

    The Commonwealth Government has received an invitation for Australian exporters to be represented at the British Empire and China Trade Fair at Hong Kong, from ...

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  62. SUBURBAN PICTURE THEATRES.

    Programmes of Suburban Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusements Advertising Columns. ...

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