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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Barraba Municipal Council decided to convert the old pound site into a playground for children. It was decided to have the enclosed area of the water supply dam declared a bird ...

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  3. SHARK TRAGEDY.

    The City Coroner (Mr. Oram), who at Manly yesterday, inquired into the shark attack at North Narrabeen, on March 2. as a result of which Herbert Bede McFarlane lost his life, ...

    Article : 186 words
  4. FEDERAL ACCOUNTS.

    The Acting Treasurer (Mr. Casey) said in the House of Representatives to-day that the Government had no intention of altering its method of presenting its accounts, which ...

    Article : 659 words
  5. THE PREMIER.

    The Premier (Mr. Stevens), in opening the Molong Centenary Show to-day. said the Government had the interests of primary industries closely at heart. The Government ...

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  6. 'PLANE DISASTER.

    In s desoiste sport between Brazzaville (Moyen Congo) and Cooullhatville (Belgian Congo), a Betlan Air Lines' 'plane, piloted by M. Gillard, discovered six corpses and the ...

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  7. VICTORIA.

    The improvement in the budgetary position, the Governments intention to maintain the principles of sound finance, and immediate legislation for the relief of primant producers ...

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  8. HOSPITAL INQUIRY.

    Public present clapped end voiced their approval when counsel for Dr. Ryan 'former medical superintendent) concluded his aadress at the Royal South Sydney Hospital inquiry ...

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  9. FEDERAL SESSION.

    The leader of the Lang group in the House of Representatives (Mr. Beasley) to-day demanded the appointment of a select committee of Parliament with the powers of a Royal ...

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  10. INCREASED WATER RATE SUGGESTED.

    The possibility of an increase in the Murwillumbah water rate has been raised as the result of the receipt by the Municipal Council of a communication from the Public Works ...

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  11. JEWELLERY THEFT AT HOTEL.

    The sample room of the Club House Hotel was broken into and a quantity of rings, brooches, sleeve links, and watch bands valued at £60 or £70, were stolen. An ...

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  12. SHOP ASSISTANT

    A man whose motive is believed to have been robbery violently attacked Wilfred Layton, 20, a shop assistant at the Extension Estate branch of the Lithgow Co-operative Society soon after ...

    Article : 159 words
  13. ALBURY ACCIDENTS.

    A remarkable accident befel Edward Roberts, of Rand, who was, employed on road work near Urana. A horse kicked at a dog, missed it and struck Roberts on the right ankle. He ...

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  14. WING SLOT DISLODGED.

    At the inquiry to-day into the deaths of Flying-Officer George Edward Bullen Nixon and acting Pilot-Officer Colin Kirkley, of New Zealand, Flight-Lieutenant John Roberts ...

    Article : 137 words
  15. BATHURST RAILWAY STAFF.

    A meeting of residents decided to protest to the Commissioner for Railways against the gradual decrease of the staff at the Bathurst railway depot, 124 members in one section alone ...

    Article : 99 words
  16. MISSING VALUABLES.

    Jewellery and other valuables have disappeared from homes in Edgecliff. Woollahr[?] Bellevue Hill, and Bronte. From one house a gold watch valued at £30 was stolen, and ...

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  17. HORSEWOMAN INJURED.

    Mrs. W. J. Wall of Halfway Creek, suffered injuries to the back and a shoulder when her horse was hit by a motor car and she was thrown to the ground. The car it is stated, ...

    Article : 90 words
  18. RESCUED FROM DROWNING.

    Betty Hines, the five-year-old daughtet of Mr. and Mrs. George Hines, of Limpinwood narrowly escaped drowning in a deep waterhole. ...

    Article : 99 words
  19. THEFT OF GOLD

    "The theft is as dramatic as an Edgar Wallace novel." said the prosecution when the police court proceedings commenced to-day against Cecil Swanland, 47, an artist, Silvio ...

    Article : 525 words
  20. ADDITIONS TO COLLEGE.

    Archbishop Mannix, of Melbourne, assisted Bishop Dwyer, or Wagga, to-day at the ceremonies of blessing and opening the new buildings of the Christian Brothers' College. ...

    Article : 93 words
  21. WOMANS ESCAPE.

    A screw picket which had fallen from an aeroplane 1000ft up missed by inches a woman standing in a garden in Christchurch. The picket buried itself deep in the ground, with ...

    Article : 60 words
  22. FOOD AND GROCERIES.

    The price levels of food and groceries decreased during February according to figures made available to-day by the Commonwealth Statistician (Mr. E. T. McPhee). Compared ...

    Article : 127 words
  23. TRUCKS DERAILED.

    While a stock train was passing along the Cudgewa-Wodonga line, a truck of slock left the track causing other trucks also to he detailed. Four fat bullocks from Towong Hill ...

    Article : 59 words
  24. GIANT TOADS

    The Bureau of Sugar Experimental Stations proposes to import into Queensland giant toads to control sugarcane pests. According to the annual report of the ...

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  25. THE CALL-UP.

    A call-up for employment is announced for to-day. Details appear on page 20, column 5. ...

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  26. COAL MINERS AS GOLD PROSPECTORS.

    Several more unemployed miners left the district yesterday to prospect for gold under the Government's scheme of unemployment relief to miners. The Government supplies ...

    Article : 54 words
  27. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 212 words
  28. YOUTH DIES UNDER ANAESTHETIC.

    Ronald Partridge, 18, second son of Mr. Albert Partridge, of Hunter-street, died in Dangar Cottage Hospital to-day while under an anaesthetic, which had been administered ...

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  29. "A TIRED SIDE."

    As soon as the M.C.C. received the result of the fourth test match at Jamaica, in which the West Indies beat the M.C.C. team, it cablea its sincere congratulations to the West ...

    Article : 136 words
  30. FERNS PICKED.

    When Mrs. Elfrey, of Warwick, was charged in the Urbenville police court with picking ferns from the State forest at Tooloom Range, Constable Lawrence said the forest was one ...

    Article : 100 words
  31. LANG PARTY ALDERMEN.

    The attitude of the Paddington Municipal Council, which is composed of nine supporters of Mr. Lang and three Federal Labour aldermen, in refusing to pay an employee for ...

    Article : 128 words
  32. WIRELESS PARTS

    The acting chairman of the Tariff Board (Mr. Synan) told a witness at an inquiry yesterday into proposed duties on wireless parts that the Ottawa Agreement provided that ...

    Article : 347 words
  33. MAGISTRATE'S LONG SITTINGS.

    Mr. Hawkins, P.M., whose circuit ext[?]ds from Casino to the Queensland border, had long sittings in two courls yesterday. After dealing with the business of the Casino court, ...

    Article : 65 words
  34. LINER LEVIATHAN

    The Department of Commerce to-day granted the United States Lines Company of Nevada permission to withdraw the steamship Leviathan (48,943 tons) from the ...

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  35. CASUALTIES.

    Linthwalt Hindmarsh, 45, of Dudley-street, Clovelly, was killed instantly late yesterday afternoon, when he overbalanced from a tram in Doncaster-avenue, Kensington, and was ...

    Article : 314 words
  36. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 223 words
  37. BOY FOUND.

    Mervyn Rayment, 14, who had been missing from his home at Windeyer, near Mudgee. since January 28, has been found here. Soon after his disappearance he begged a lift from ...

    Article : 61 words
  38. COUNCIL'S ACTION.

    At a special meeting of the Kuring-gai Council a resolution was carried setting out that every officer employed by the council must give absolute loyal service and ...

    Article : 118 words
  39. WAR PROFITS.

    The Senate Munitions Committee, which for months has been investigating domestic and international traffic in armaments, advanced a 12-point legislative programme to-day for ...

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  40. POSTMASTER'S LAPSE.

    At the Supreme Court sittings at Grafton before Mr. Justice Street, George Henry Jobson 60, formely postmaster at Harwood, pleade[?] guilty to a charge of misappropriating £337 ...

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  41. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The price of gold to-day was £7/5/6 an ounce fine, compared with £7/7/2½ yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The United Stetes dollar was quoted to-day ...

    Article : 399 words
  42. WOMAN TEACHER'S DEATH.

    The death occurred at the Berrima Distr[?] Hospital last night of Miss Margaret Fredera Hartfield, 58, who was on the teaching st[?] of Frensham School, Mittagong. ...

    Article : 72 words
  43. CANCER CONFERENCE.

    The annual cancer conference, arranged by the Federal Health Department, has been postponed for a week, because the date originally selected for the opening of the conference, ...

    Article : 85 words
  44. TO-DAY.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 385 words
  45. MULWALA CANAL.

    Excavation on the Mulwala Canal, [?] is being constructed for the Berriquin irrigation scheme, began this week. One hudred men are employed, and all the local ...

    Article : 60 words
  46. SYDNEY MOTORIST

    Jack Saywell, of Sydney, pleaded not guilty to two charges of driving at Goulburn and Marulan at a speed dangerous to the public. He was fined £12/10/. ...

    Article : 269 words
  47. GOVERNMENT BAN.

    The Commonwealth Government will take steps to prevent the employment of aboriginal women in mining in the Northern Territory. An assurance to this effect was given by the ...

    Article : 97 words
  48. THE SUBURBS.

    The Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond) has informed Mr. Primrose, M.L.A., that additions to the North Sydney Boys' High School would be begun shortly. Plans ...

    Article : 175 words
  49. SHOWGROUND WORKS.

    The £3000 which the Royal Agricultural Society requires for the construction of new cattle stalls and horse boxes to meet the requirements necessitated by the record ...

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  50. NEW AIR SERVICE

    Swiss Air and imperial Airways. Ltd., have jointly inaugurated a new London-Zurich service. Swiss Air is using a Douglas twinengined monoplane of the type which did so ...

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  51. MANLY HOSPITAL.

    A new election of members of Manly Hospital Board is to be held. The Minister for Health (Mr. Fitzsimons) has taken this action in consequence of complaints of technical ...

    Article : 58 words
  52. MUTILATED BODY

    The body of a man, with the head missing, the leg severed close to the body, and a hand missing, was discovered in a canal near Brentford, which is on the railway line between ...

    Article : 93 words
  53. MR. BROOK'S FLIGHT

    Mr. H. L. Brook, the air race compe[?] who is waiting at Darwin to commence an attempt to establish a record for a flight from Darwin to London, has delayed his departure ...

    Article : 81 words
  54. BREAD INQUIRY.

    Price cuts by rival bakers in the Wallsend district reduced the price of bread from /5 to /4 a loaf in the last few days. An agreement has now been reached among the ...

    Article : 70 words
  55. THIEVES' BOOTY.

    Early this morning 5cwt of sausage skins were stolen from the Country Service Casing Company, Chelsea. The total length of the skins was 20 miles, and 302,400 sausages could ...

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  56. CAVALRY COMPETITIONS AT THE ROYAL SHOW.

    Classes have been included in the ring programme for the Easter show for cavalry events, comprising tent-pegging, section fours over hurdles, and rescue races. The 1st-21st ...

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  57. YOUNG WOMAN'S SUICIDE.

    A young woman, whose identity has not been established, climbed over the rail of the Hamilton railway bridge, and plunged to her death in the Waikato River, 85 feet, below. ...

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  58. SUBURBAN PICTURE THEATRES.

    Programmes of Suburban Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusement, Advertising columns. ...

    Article : 21 words
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