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  2. FAREWELLS.

    There were many informal farewells to the Governor (Sir Phillp Game) and Lady Game at Government. House yesterday. Y.A.L. BOYS. ...

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  3. "RIGOLETTO."

    By comparison with the deep, rich splendour of "The Valkyrie," which was the previous opera that had drawn first-night audiences to the Tivoli Theatre, the score of "Rigoletto" ...

    Article : 906 words
  4. LAWN TENNIS.

    In one of the finest exhibitions of aggressive tennis ever given by D. P. Turnbull (South Australia), he defeated the French Davis Cup player, C. Boussus, in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3, ...

    Article : 1,703 words
  5. BRITISH CARS.

    The British Society of Motor Manufacturers records a steady increase in production during last year, when 256,866 private cars and 85,633 commercial vehicles were manufactured, ...

    Article : 113 words
  6. POTATOES.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) this afternoon at Latrobe addressed a representative meeting of potato growers and members of the Potate Marketing Board. He outlined the ...

    Article : 539 words
  7. AGRICULTURE.

    Professor J. A. Prescott, Professor of Agricultural Chemistry at Adelaide University, and chief of the soil division of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, passed ...

    Article : 316 words
  8. SWIMMING

    More records, Austialian and race, were established in the State championship carnival held by the New South Wales Amateur Swimming Association at Manly last night. ...

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  9. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Up to Friday the Boggabri silo had taken delivery of 6127 tons of wheat, totalling 228,747 bushels. Since the season commenced 1503 tons totalling 58,115 bushels have been trucked. ...

    Article : 129 words
  10. SNAKE STARTLES FISHING PARTY.

    A party or fishermen had a startling experience when a 5ft black snake threw itself over their boat when they were fishing on Boambee Creek. The snake seemed to spring out of the ...

    Article : 90 words
  11. NEW NAVAL TREATY.

    The French Government has sent a Note to the United States, and copies to Britain and Japan, suggesting that maritime countries which did not sign the Washington Treaty ...

    Article : 101 words
  12. FISHHOOK IN TONGUE.

    W[?] a child was playing with a fishing hook in his mouth, he accidentally pulled on the line. The barbed hook pierced his tongue, and became firmly embedded. The child could ...

    Article : 54 words
  13. INTER-TOWN QUEEN COMPETITION

    [?] of the hospital board at Forbes conducted during the holiday season a street carnival, which returned a profit of £200. This will be credited to the town and ...

    Article : 109 words
  14. GERMAN REGIMENT.

    Herr Hitler is secretly reorganising the Black Guards (a section of the Nazi troops), and is forming 20,000 of them into a heavily armed regiment. They will be selected for brawn ...

    Article : 96 words
  15. £23,730,351.

    For 1934, the Probate Office granted 7792 probates and letters of administration, the value of the estates being £23,730,351. For the previous year the number of ...

    Article : 42 words
  16. READING OF WATER METERS.

    [?] took place at a meeting of the Gulgong Municipal Council on the matter of leading water meters, which have been installed in certain places. The subject ...

    Article : 148 words
  17. TEACHERS OF DEAF.

    When the first Commonwealth conference of supcilnlendents and teachers of the deaf was resumed to-day it was decided that an Australian association of teachers of the deaf ...

    Article : 126 words
  18. SHORTER WORKING WEEK.

    The Minister of labour (Mr. Oliver Stanley) is arranging to meet the Trades Union Council and the General Council of Employers to consider a shorter working week, and to discuss ...

    Article : 71 words
  19. CHILD FALLS IN FIRE.

    Doreen Prior, 2, falling into a camp fire at South West, Rocks, was badly burned, She was admitted to the Macleay District Hospital suffering fiom burns on her feet and legs and ...

    Article : 47 words
  20. MAN'S NIGHT IN OPEN.

    George Clark, an unemployed painter, of Inverell, collapsed on the outskirts of Kempsey, and lay out in the open all night unable to move. A passer-by found him in the ...

    Article : 56 words
  21. LAND SETTLEMENT.

    Mr. J. B. Cramsie, formerly chairman of the Metropolitan Meat Industry Board, said yesterday that the Government should provide employment for youths, relief workers, ...

    Article : 187 words
  22. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

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

    Article : 401 words
  23. MURDER CHARGE.

    In the police court to-day, Mary Isabella Foster was charged that on December 25 she murdered Thomas Sydney Burke. Plainclothes Constable Quinn said he ...

    Article : 98 words
  24. DEATH OF PIONEER.

    The death has occurred of Mr. Albert Genge, aged 88 years, a pioneer of the Parkes district. He was born in England, and arrived in Austtalia in 1865. He came to Parkes in 1874 ...

    Article : 132 words
  25. SAAR PLEBISCITE.

    Mr. Knox, who is an Australian, is chairman of the Governing Commission of the Saar. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  26. GIRL'S DEATH FROM BURNS.

    Bernice Florence Hayne, 11, of West Tamworth, who was terribly burned about the face and body as a result of her clothing catching alight when she was removing a hot ...

    Article : 81 words
  27. INDEX.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 214 words
  28. VEHICLE TAXATION.

    A contention that the main roads regulations relating to registration of all motor vehicles are ultra vires and invalid is one of the grounds of an appeal lodged before the ...

    Article : 164 words
  29. FARMER SHOT IN HEAD.

    Shortly after Michael Augustus Walsh had returned from milking cows on his farm at McPherson's Crossing, Mrs. Walsh heard a rifle shot in a bedroom, and found her ...

    Article : 88 words
  30. CHESS.

    The twelfth round of the Australian chess championship was played to-day. There were many surprises in this round. Purdy (N.S.W.) the leader, was very hard ...

    Article : 338 words
  31. NEW ZEALAND DEFENCE.

    "No request of any kind was made by the secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence (Sir Maurice Hankey), when he conferred with us a few weeks ago," stated the ...

    Article : 130 words
  32. COOK FINED FOR ASSAULT.

    A charge against Constantine Levantis, cook, of inflicting grievous bodily harm on William John Barry, was reduced to unlawful assault, and Levantis was fined 20/, with £4/5/ costs. ...

    Article : 157 words
  33. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 239 words
  34. OVERSEA ATHLETES

    Six noted young British and Finnish athletes arrived in Fremantle by the Ormonde to-day, and left in the afternoon for Melbourne. Captain Evan Hunter is in charge ...

    Article : 281 words
  35. LOTTERY DRAWING.

    The first four prizes in the 242nd lottery were drawn by Mr. R. J. Langley, a Sydney business man, yesterday. The first prize went to "The Big Party" ...

    Article : 97 words
  36. 106 YEARS OLD

    The Rev. Charles Frederick Loste, Australia's oldest clergyman, who is believed to be the oldest resident of Tasmania, and who may be the oldest clergyman in the world, will ...

    Article : 152 words
  37. LARGE DINGO SHOT.

    An organised drive with 15 shooters resulted in a large dingo being shot at the Mullion, by Frederick Walker. The skin of the dingo messured 5 feet 2 inches from tip to tip. It ...

    Article : 83 words
  38. AUSTRALIA STAR

    The last of the three new freighters constructed for the Blue Star Line's service to Australia was launched at Belfast yesterday. Mrs. Samuel Vesty christened the new ...

    Article : 66 words
  39. GEORGE'S RIVER BRIDGE.

    The State Government, under its guarantee, will have to meet this year's deficit of about £10,000 on the commitments of Sutherland Shire Council in regard to the George's River ...

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  40. THREE CHILDREN INJURED.

    The three-year-old son of Mr. R. Scott, an Erina Shire Council employee, fell and broke a small bone in an arm. Later Mr. Scott's daughter fell on an axe she was carrying, and ...

    Article : 88 words
  41. HARBOUR BRIDGE TAX.

    The Kuring-gai Municipal Council decided last night to call a meeting of representatives of all shires and councils contributing to the cost of the Harbour Bridge, by means of the ...

    Article : 63 words
  42. MOTOR LORRY OVERTURNS.

    A motor lorry driven by Stanley Heber overturned at the bottom of Red Hill Mountainroad, three miles from Coff's Harbour, shortly after midday to-day. The lorry was carrying ...

    Article : 88 words
  43. TO-DAY.

    Tivoli Theatre: "The Valkyrie," 7.45. Theatre Royal: "Viktoria and Her Hussar" 2, 8. Mayfair Theatre: "Bitter Sweet," "Troubic," 11. 2, 5, 8. ...

    Article : 266 words
  44. FRENCH SCOUTS.

    The ceremony of laying a wreath on the Cenotaph, by Mr. Raymond Schlemmer, Commissioner for the French Scout contingent to the Australian jamboree, yesterday attracted ...

    Article : 72 words
  45. BOY CYCLIST.

    Geoffrey Heintz, the 10-year-old boy who rode a bicycle from Sydney to Melbourne in four days 9 hours 50 minutes, still found time to keep a diary of his 600-miles adventure. ...

    Article : 292 words
  46. GOLD LOVING CUPS.

    Before the Oronsay left Port Melbourne for London, a special messenger handed a small parcel to the master of the liner (Commodore C. T. Matheson). The parcel, which ...

    Article : 82 words
  47. CITRUS INDUSTRY.

    The Commonwealth Government has granted £2000 a year for five years for scientific research on problems of the citrus industry. ...

    Article : 32 words
  48. GRAVESIDE SCENE.

    Mourners at a funeral at Christchurch were surprised to see a number of strangers present wearing red buttonholes. After the burial service the strangers unfurled a red bannerette ...

    Article : 109 words
  49. CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS.

    The following changes and appointments have been made by the Bishop of Maitland (Dr. Gleeson):—Father James McGurk, from Branxton, to be assistant at Mayfield; Father ...

    Article : 127 words
  50. 75 YARDS SPRINT.

    Eddie Tolan, Olympic Games champion, [?] a special effort at Maribyrnong Running Ground to-night, equalled the 75 yards record of 7 11-16, held by Austin Robertson since ...

    Article : 67 words
  51. UNIVERSITY CRICKET.

    Perfect weather and a wicket which played fast and true marked the opening day of the interuniversity cricket match between Melbourne and Sydney on the University Oval to-day. with six ...

    Article : 188 words
  52. CASUALTIES.

    John Sims, 25, of Gale-street, Mortlake, had his skull fractured yesterday, when his bicycle and a motor-car collided in Parramatta-road, Haberfield. The Western Suburbs Ambulance ...

    Article : 88 words
  53. FIVE GIRLS RESCUED.

    Five young girls were swept into a channel at Newcastle Beach this afternoon. Life-saver W. Harris and assistant life-saver Hancock went out to their assistance. Harris took ...

    Article : 78 words
  54. WOMAN'S LONELY DEATH.

    A neighbour informed the Redfern police late last night that she had not seen Mrs. Mary Smith, 75, about her home in Wilson-street, Redfern, since last Thursday. ...

    Article : 53 words
  55. FIRE AT CENTRAL RAILWAY STATION.

    A working model advertising the Blue Mountains express train caught alight at the Central Railway Station last night. Firemen from headquarters put out the fire with chemical ...

    Article : 51 words
  56. STREET SAFETY ISLANDS.

    Mr. F. E. McElhone, in a letter to the Editor, says that in the interests of public convenience the safety islands in Macquarie-street should be restored without delay. The islands were ...

    Article : 46 words
  57. SUBURBAN PICTURE THEATRES.

    Programmes of Suburban Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertising Colum[?] ...

    Article : 18 words
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