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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    The Berry Municipal Council favours acceptance of the Public Works Department's plan to duplicate Berry's water supply, at a coast of £8000, and has asked an officer of the ...

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  3. LORRY IN RIVER.

    Frederick Saunders, 45 of Barraba, was held under water for 12 minutes yesterday when his four-ton motor lorry got out of control and plunged into the Horton River ...

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  4. LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

    Sir John Perring, an English authority on local government, who is visiting Sydney, yesterday made some interesting comparisons between the powers exercised by local ...

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  5. SMALLER HARVEST.

    The likelihood of the wheat harvest in Australia for 1934-35 being less than that which was expected a few months ago, may result in an important revision of the Federal ...

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  6. BARRISTERS AND BUSHRANGERS.

    Almost exactly one hundred years ago the deliberate murder of Dr. Wardell, one of the foremost members of the Australian Bar, emphasised the menace to life and property ...

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  7. PRE-SELECTION BALLOT.

    Forbes Labour circles are in a state of upheaval over the refusal of the Sydney executive to endorse the nomination of Mr. Walker Clarke for the ballot for the Ashburnham ...

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  8. SOLICITORS

    A further meeting of solicitors was held in the King's Hall yesterday to discuss the Legal Practitioners Bill now before Parliament. The report of the committee appointed at the ...

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  9. SYDNEY LANDMARKS.

    Concern is felt in circles interested in the preservation of historic landmarks in Sydney at the suggested demolition of Governor Macquarie, convict barracks, now known as ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  10. FURNITURE AND MONEY BURNT.

    A fire at Jones' Creck destroyed about £30 worth of furniture, and £6 in banknotes, the property of Mr. H. Ross, a share-farmer. Ross had moved his furniture from the house, and ...

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  11. DUBBO RETURNED SOLIDIERS.

    At a meeting of the Dubbo branch of the Returned Soldiers' League, it was decided that as many local returned men as possible should take advantage of the free train trip to Sydney ...

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  12. PROPOSED KEMPSEY AERODROME.

    For some years the Kempsey Municipal Council has been seeking a suitable area for an aerodrome, Aiderman H. E. Chapple states that with other aldermen he viewed what ...

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  13. WATER HYACINTH

    Water hyacinth is causing considerable trouble in the Clarence River, and its tributaries. Punts are frequently impeded by the growth. In Coldstream, it has become so ...

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  14. HOSPITAL BOARD.

    The Minister for Health (Mr. Weaver), commenting yesterday on the election of a doctor as a director of the Canterbury District Memorial Hospital, said that the ...

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  15. LOWER INTEREST RATES SOUGHT.

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  16. BOY'S FALL FROM TREE.

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  17. MINERS DISMISSED.

    As an outcome of the management's agreement to abolish the rationing system, 193 employees in the South Bulli Colliery have received 14 days' notice of the termination of ...

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  18. MISSION FIELDS.

    The Methodist Foreign Missions Board, which is meeting in Sydney, yesterday decided to extend the use of wireless receiving and transmitting sets in the outlying mission ...

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  19. YASS-CANBERRA ROAD.

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  20. UNION OF CHURCHES.

    The report of the Congregational Church's committee on Church union, which will be presented to the biennial assembly of the Congregational Church in Hobart, states that ...

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  21. SNAKE IN CART.

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  22. FAILED TO VOTE.

    At the last elections 172,285 electors failed to vote, and of these 95,000 have given replies satisfactory to the electoral authorities. Persons whose explanations were not accepted ...

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  23. SHARK AT BONDI

    A shark, estimated to be 13 feet long, cruised outside the surf at Bondi for three hours yesterday afternoon. The shark appeared about 1 o'clock off North ...

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  24. HIT BY HEAVY HAMMER.

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  25. BOY SWALLOWS FOX DECOY.

    While lan Larsen, son of James Larson, of Eskdale, was riding to school, he had in his mouth a contrivance used as a fox decoy, which he was blowing. He swallowed it, and was ...

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  26. FALL FROM SCAFFOLDING.

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  27. STANDARD GAUGE LINK.

    Objections to the proposed construction by the Commonwealth of the Red Hill-Port Augusta railway were raised by the Premier of South Australia (Mr. Butler), who[?] with ...

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  28. AORANGI'S PASSENGERS.

    With [?]pressions of regret at their departure and cheers for the staff, the Aorangi's passengers left quarantine yesterday morning. Many of them declared that they were ...

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  29. FATAL GUNSHOT WOUND.

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  30. INDEX.

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  31. GIRL'S DEATH

    Jean Isabel Vincent, 18, of Carringtonroad. Randwick, collapsed and died in a dentist's chair on Thursday morning, shortly after she had had some teeth removed. ...

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  32. AERO CLUB'S COMPLAINT.

    The president of the Narromine Aero Club (Mr. T. E. Berry) expressed surprise that the Commonwealth Government was spending about £20,000 on aerodromes along the ...

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  33. INJURED MINISTER.

    The Minister for the Interior (Mr. Paterson), who with Senator Brennan and Mr E. Terry, was injured in a motor car accident in Melbourne last night, is likely to remain ...

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  34. MISSION CENTENARY.

    So many desire to attend the centenary celebrations of the landing of the first Methodist missionaries, the Revs. W. Cross and D. Cargill, which will begin at Lakemba, ...

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  35. TRANSPORT INSTITUTE.

    The Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner) said yesterday that from some remarks made at a dinner given to the retired president and secretary of the Master Carriers' Association, ...

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  36. DUKE OF GLOUCESTER.

    Apart from the initial welcome by huge war canoes on the day of his arrival, all Samoan festivities in honour of the Duke of Gloucester were crowded into this afternoon. There were ...

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  37. NOVEL FISHING COMPETITION.

    In the Hay Park, a fishing tournament was conducted to reduce the number of fish in the artificial lake, upon which ducks, swans, and other water fowl are kept. The lake is filied ...

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  38. SCUFFLE FOR ARMS.

    The action of a miner, Patrick O'Leary, in obtaining possession of revolvers immediately after shots had been fired at Tennant's Creek, was described in evidence to-day in ...

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  39. FIRE AT MIRANDA.

    James Bernard, of Kareena-road, Miranda, was awakened by choking clouds of smoke early yesterday morning and found his house in stames. He quickly aroused his three sons ...

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  40. TWO CHILDREN PERISH.

    Two children perished in a fire which destroyed the home of Paul Mahommet Manwar, an Afghan camel driver, on the banks of the Pink Lakes, near Underbool, about 11 ...

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  41. LITHGOW TRADES HALL SOCIETY

    The ballot for the election of six directous of the Lithgow Trades Hall Society resulted in the election of Messrs. J. Steel, H. Moore. F. Renshaw, J. Watson, J. M. Davidson, and ...

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  42. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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  43. MAN THROWN FROM LORRY.

    While P. H. Fraser, an employee of Wright, Heaton and Co., Moree, was loading from one lorry to another, the horse bolted and threw him off the lorry. Fraser suffered a fracture ...

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  44. CASUALTIES.

    Four people were injured last night when a motor car skidded in Moore Park-road. Moore Park, and overturned after striking an island garden. Archibald Hunter. 44, of ...

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  45. GALLIPOLI LEGION.

    MR. A. A. BLOOM. Mr. Bloom was re-elected unopposed honorary secretary of the Gallipoli Legion of Anzacs. He has been an active member of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  46. DISPUTE AT STATE MINE.

    A compulsory conference between representative of the Federated Engine-drivers and Firemen's Association and the State Mine Board of Control, which was summoned by the ...

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  47. COTTON GOODS.

    Representatives of the spinning and manufacturing sections of the cotton industry to-day protested to the Minister for Customs (Mr. White) against denims, drills, dungarees, ...

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  48. RABBIT-TRAPPERS BUSY.

    The rabbit industry promises to revive. A motor lorry is collecting trapped careases on the roads of the Tumut district for the Gundagai freezing works. ...

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  49. GRAFTON ROMANCE.

    Ernest. ("Pat") Fox, who lost both [?]gs through an accident at a meatworks nine days ago, and who is still dangerously ill, was married to his pretty fiancee, Irene Ho[?]good ...

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  50. TO-DAY.

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  51. DAVID MEMORIAL FUND.

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  52. AIR MAIL.

    The Imperial Airways air liner Athena left Darwin at 7.35 this morning with the London-bound air mail. The 'plane's departure was delayed for an hour as one of the engines ...

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  53. MAN FOUND DEAD.

    Clement Black, 47, manufacturer, of Carr-street, Waverton, was found dead in the office of his factory in Little Regent-street, city, early yesterday morning. A rubber tube was ...

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  54. SICK PAY MALINGERERS.

    The Grand Master of the Manchester Unity Order of Oddfellows (Bro. McCarthy) said, at a welcome social, that the sick pay question was most serious. It was aggravated by the ...

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  55. NEW TOURIST ROAD.

    A new tourist road to the summit of Mount Canobolas, 4200ft above sea level, has been opened. ...

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  56. LOCAL DELIVERY TO-DAY.

    The latest air mail from London is to be distributed in Sydney and suburbs by the first delivery this morning. The Superintendent of Mails in Sydney (Mr. ...

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  57. W.A. MINES DISPUTE.

    Another mass meeting of members of the mining branch of the A.W.U. will be held in Boulder to-morrow morning to discuss the stoppage on the Golden Mile. It is ...

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  58. RED MASS.

    The fifth annual Red Mass, to coincide with the opening of the law term, will be celebrated at St. Mary's Cathedral next Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock by the Bishop of the Northern ...

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  59. LATE SHIPPING.

    ADELAIDE (1084m).—Arr.: Feb. 8. Ballarat, from Liverpool; Macedon, from Rockhampton; City of Glasgow, from eastern States. Dep: Feb. 8 Themistocles, for South Africa and England; Buy[?] ...

    Article : 34 words
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