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  2. RADIO EQUIPMENT.

    The Federal Cabinet to-day decided that all steamships enpaged in the interstate trade must be equipped with wireless apparatus for emergency use ...

    Article : 851 words
  3. ARRESTED MAN

    The man who escaped from the police in the Boorowa district on Thursday is alleged to have broken into the lock-up at Boorowa early yesterday morning, and released a ...

    Article : 705 words
  4. LABOUR FACTIONS.

    Negotiations for Labour unity almost collapsed yesterday when a meeting of the Federal A.L.P. executive in the Comweaith Bank Building reached a ...

    Article : 983 words
  5. BUILDING.

    The cost of building in Sydney is expected to increase 15 to 20 per cent., as a result of recent increases in the costs of building materials and labour. ...

    Article : 547 words
  6. MINING IN W.A.

    At a meeting of the Gold Fields Australian Development Company Ltd., Mr. J. Agnew said that it was discouraging that those who had endcavoured to lift Western Australian ...

    Article : 530 words
  7. RELIEF WORK.

    The Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. Dunningham) informed a deputation from the executive of the Local Government Association yesterday that the Cabinet, which is now ...

    Article : 643 words
  8. SPECULATION

    The collapse of the pepper market, owing to overtrading, has given rise to reports that the authorities intend to take action against speculation in ...

    Article : 363 words
  9. AERIAL PACT

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald), in a speech at Luton, described the proposed aerial pact, which was outlined in the Anglo-French communique, as the ...

    Article : 176 words
  10. INDIAN CONGRESS.

    A three days' debate in the Central Legislature at New Delhi on the British Joint Parliamentary Committee's report on Indian constitutional reform ended yesterday, with two ...

    Article : 232 words
  11. RADIO SPEECHES

    Ministers in Britain and Ministers of the Union of South Africa, 6000 miles distant, delivered speeches at the same gathering, when the first radio-telephone luncheon ...

    Article : 306 words
  12. ITALY'S BIRTH RATE.

    Signor Mussolini's concern at the decline in the birth rate is evidenced by a vigorous appeal in his paper, "Il Popolo d'Italia," which asks, "Who is going to drink the farmers' milk ...

    Article : 107 words
  13. IRISH FREE STATE.

    The Allens Bill which is being introduced in the Dail Eireann, repeals the application of the British Allens Restriction Act as it affects the Irish Frce State. It defines an allen as a ...

    Article : 131 words
  14. SUDDEN STORM.

    A shaip thunderstorm late yesterday afternoon marked the commencement of unsettled conditions, which are likely to continue. A fireball struck the house of Mr. Stephen ...

    Article : 862 words
  15. RAY PARER.

    Mr. Ray Parer and Mr. G. E. Hemsworth, Australian aviators, landed at Darwin to-day. Their flight from England to Australia, which started as an entry in the Centenary Air Race, ...

    Article : 786 words
  16. PACIFIC AIR SERVICE.

    Pan-American Airways, which proposes to inaugurate a Transpacific air service, applied to the Federal Communications Commission to-day for a licence to operate a ...

    Article : 83 words
  17. THE LOTTERY.

    The director of the State lottery (Mr. Colvin) said yesterday that £4,200,000 had been paid out in prize-money, while £1300 in prizes had not been claimed. ...

    Article : 130 words
  18. N.S.W. ELECTIONS.

    Sir Thomas Bavin, M.L.A., will leave for Sydney by the Orama, probably from Toulon, on February 22. He told the Australian Press Association that he found among many ...

    Article : 155 words
  19. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The price of gold to-day was £7/2/1½ an ounce fine, compared with £7/2/1 yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The United States dollar was quoted to-day ...

    Article : 619 words
  20. TYRANNY OF BOOKS.

    "The tyranny of quantity is the greatest menace to-day to our intellectual liberty," said Sir Joslah Stamp, the economist, addressing a literary luncheon. ...

    Article : 162 words
  21. PERTH MURDER.

    An important development has occurred in the investigation of the murder of Edgar Arthur Whitfield, 60, watchman, at the jewellery shop of Caris Bros., Ltd., and the ...

    Article : 342 words
  22. TRADE TREATIES.

    In an endeavour to place negotiations for trade treaties on a definite basis, the Minister in charge of Trade Treaties (Sir Henry Gullett) yesterday commenced preliminary ...

    Article : 218 words
  23. CHINESE PIRATES.

    British and Chinese officials in Canton yesterday discussed ways and means of combating piracy. During the discussion it was stated that ...

    Article : 135 words
  24. POLITICIAN MOBBED.

    Following the riot in Sheffield yesterday, another serious unemployed disturbance occurred at Lincoln to-day. Men and women mobbed the Conservative member, Mr. W. S. ...

    Article : 100 words
  25. LANG PARTY.

    The country conference of the Lang Labour party will be opened in Dubbo this morning. Apart from the burning question of unity which may be discussed by the delegates, it ...

    Article : 139 words
  26. M.C.C. TEAM.

    The match between the M.C.C. team and the British Guiana XI, was drawn. The M.C.C. scored 421 in reply to British Guiana's first innings total of 102. In their second innings, ...

    Article : 128 words
  27. LONDON DELEGATION.

    On account of the volume of work which will have to be done on board ship on the way to London in preparation for trade discussions with the British Government, it has been ...

    Article : 169 words
  28. IMPORT RESTRICTIONS.

    Sir Frank Fox, writing in the "National Review," expresses the opinion that restriction of Empire imports by the home country is a revolutionary development. "Serious effects on ...

    Article : 99 words
  29. STEAMER COOLANA

    Efforts were made this morning and this afterroon to draw the interstate steamer Coolana off the mudbank on to which she ran while moving down Newcastle Harbour ...

    Article : 192 words
  30. SOCIAL SCIENCE.

    Sixteen women graduates and students of the Board of Social Study and Training, Sydney, received a welcome at the University of Toronto, They are pursuing the study of social ...

    Article : 52 words
  31. CATHEDRAL SITE.

    St. Andrew's Cathedral will not be transferred to the former Mint site. At yesterday's meeting of the Cabinet, the report of the sub-committee of Ministers on ...

    Article : 174 words
  32. GRAND OPERA.

    The Commonwealth and The various State Governments will be asked by the New South Wales Government to consider the advisability of subsidising permanent grand opera in ...

    Article : 110 words
  33. KING'S JUBILEE.

    The "Daily Telegraph" understands that the King's silver jubilee programme will include an Empire broadcast by the King from Buckingham Palace on May 5 or 6. ...

    Article : 120 words
  34. ELECTORAL ROLLS.

    The State Cabinet decided yesterday that charges of irregularities in the electoral rolls, made by the leader of the Opposition (Mr. Lang), and other Labour adherents, should be ...

    Article : 88 words
  35. HAUPTMANN'S TRIAL.

    More witnesses were called by the defence when the trial of Bernard Richard Hauptmann on a charge of murdering Colonel Lindbergh's baby was continued to-day. ...

    Article : 110 words
  36. NEW ZEALAND DROUGHT.

    The prolonged drought is having serious effects. There was rain over most of the North Island overnight, but it was insufficient to afford much relief. ...

    Article : 72 words
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