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  2. LOAN MONEY

    The Loan Council to-day approved a loan programme for 1937-38 of £16,000,000, which is £7,968,000 less than the programme submitted by ...

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  3. MORTGAGE LAW.

    The Minister of Justice (Mr. Martin) said last night that the Government had no intention of restoring the personal covenant in mortgages. ...

    Article : 436 words
  4. THE SENATE.

    The three U.A.P. candidates for the Senate in New South Wales will be Senator J. G. D. Arkins, Mr. D. R. Hall, and Mr. B. A. Helmore, of Newcastle. ...

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  5. AUSTRALIAN AIR ENVOYS

    Sir Keith Smith and Captain P. G. Taylor will be envoys of Australia in round-the-world flights which will be held in conjunction with the 150th ...

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  6. ISLAND IN PACIFIC

    "Canton Island is British, has been British for years, and is likely to remain British," a Dominions Office official informed me when I asked if ...

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  7. CHINESE ARMY DEPLOYS

    The Japanese War Office reports that 30 divisions of Chinese troops are being deployed near the border of the province of Shansi along the Sian railway. Shansi is adjacent to Hopei province, which the Japanese wish to separate entirely from China. ...

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  8. HEAVY GUNS.

    The Gibraltar correspondent of the "Daily Herald" explains in detail to-day how the Rock has been almost completely ringed with heavy guns, and ...

    Article : 145 words
  9. RETURN FLIGHT.

    The Imperial Airways liner Caledonia, which left Bottwood (Newfoundland) yesterday, on its return flight across the Atlantic, reached Foynes (Ireland) ...

    Article : 143 words
  10. REPORTS OF NEGOTIATIONS.

    In unofficial Chinese quarters in Tientsin it had been reported that after negotiations an agreement was made for the withdrawal of the 37th Chinese ...

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  11. MRS. PUTNAM.

    A report (not confirmed from America) that the aeroplane used by Mrs. Earhart Putnam, who is missing in the Pacific, had been sighted by one ...

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  12. CLIPPER III. ARRIVES.

    The Clipper III arrived at Bottwood at 6.49 a.m. (Eastern standard time) to-day. The crossing occupied 16 hours 28 minutes. [Pictures on illustrations page.] ...

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  13. BANK DEPOSITS

    Deposits in the trading banks in their Australian business amounted in June to the record sum of £313,152,044[?] £21,667,606 more than the amount 12 ...

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  14. KIDNAPPING IN U.S.A.

    A kidnapping episode had an anti-climax here to-day. Three armed bandits—Peter Trexler, Fred Tindol, and Charlie Chapman—who had broken ...

    Article : 109 words
  15. PARK LANDS.

    The Metropolitan Land Board yesterday rejected an application by the Chatswood Golf Company, Ltd., for the lease of a reserve on the foreshores of ...

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  16. AERO CLUB PAGEANT.

    At yesterday's meeting of the celebrations aviation committee it was announced that the Commonwealth Government had granted the use of two Bessoneau hangars which would ...

    Article : 56 words
  17. NEW INTERSTATE COMMISSION.

    An announcement by the Acting Prime Minister (Dr. Page) to-day indicates that appointments to the proposed Interstate Commission will be ...

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  18. HUSBAND STILL HOPEFUL.

    While the search in the Pacific for Mrs. Putnam and her navigator, Captain Noonan, continued yesterday to be fruitless, her husband had not given up hope,, and a Seattle ...

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  19. THIRD POLAR FLIGHT.

    A third trans-Polar flight from Moscow to California is planned for August, it is announced. On this flight the 'plane will refuel in ...

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  20. S.P. BETTING BILL.

    It is expected that difference of opinion will be expressed by supporters of the State Ministry concerning the methods that should be adopted to check ...

    Article : 149 words
  21. RUSSIA AN IMPORTANT FACTOR.

    Mr. C. M. McDonald, representative of "The Times" at Peiping, said that Japan's policy was actuated by a conviction that, sooner or later, she must ...

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  22. MINERS' CLAIMS.

    Representatives of the colliery owners in the northern, western, and southern coalfields met in Sydney yesterday and discussed the demands of the Miners' ...

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  23. FINANCIAL AGREEMENT.

    The next meeting of the Loan Council will consider the proposals submitted by the Treasurer of Tasmania (Mr. Dwyer Gray) to-day, for amendments of the financial ...

    Article : 192 words
  24. LIGHTNING AND 'PLANES.

    The possibility of a 'plane being struck by lightning while in flight is remote, according to Sydney experts, who said yesterday that, as a 'plane in flight was not earthed, ...

    Article : 224 words
  25. SCOTTSBORO CASE.

    A white jury at Decator, Alabama, has convicted, and sentenced to death, Clarence Norris, one of the negroes involved in the famous Scottsboro case. The charge against Norris ...

    Article : 182 words
  26. ATTACK ON CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

    The Rev. Anderson Jardine, formerly of Durham (England), who performed, the religious ceremony at the Duke of Windsor's wedding, declared, in an interview with a ...

    Article : 238 words
  27. SIR BERNARD SPILSBURY.

    Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the famous pathologist of Scotland Yard, and the principal scientific witness in many murder trials, was referred to in an unusual way during the ...

    Article : 206 words
  28. NINE WIVES.

    After marrying nine women for their savings, George Roediger has been sentenced to nine years' imprisonment. Mrs. Julia Retinik, a widow[?] gave him 1000 dollar[?] (£Aust.250) ...

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  29. GORDON SEAT.

    Although still of the opinion that pre-selection "creates a vicious method of interference with the freedom of the people in their choice of representatives, and meddles in the most ...

    Article : 227 words
  30. MR. FORGAN SMITH'S VIEW.

    The Premier of Queensland (Mr. Forgan Smith), commenting last night on the results of the Loan Council meeting, said that as far as Queensland was concerned the result ...

    Article : 67 words
  31. SPANISH TREASURE FOUND.

    Talk of a fabulously-rich lost goldmine worked by the Spanish conquistadors has been revived by a report that miners in the Chiriqui Province found 35 gold bars each containing ...

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  32. CITY STATUES.

    The Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. Dunningham) said last night that he had recently suggested to the Government that steps should be taken to ensure that the ...

    Article : 148 words
  33. RABAUL ERUPTIONS.

    The New Guinea Administration believes that 424 natives lost their lives in the recent volcanic eruptions near Rabaul. Officials made this estimate of the death ...

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  34. BOAT CAUGHT IN CHANNEL.

    Seven occupants of a rowing boat dn Tuggerah Lakes this afternoon had a narrow escape from being swept through the 60ft channel Which had been dug by council employees and ...

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  35. SISTER KENNY'S CLINIC.

    As a result of the invitation which the public health department of the London County Council made to Sister Kenny, of Brisbane, to establish an infantile paralysis clinic at ...

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  36. JOB AT £4 A WEEK.

    Among the 64 people who applied for the position of secretary of Campbell Hospital[?] at £4 a week, were a barrister, from Victoria, several school teachers and bank clerks, ...

    Article : 85 words
  37. MINE EXPLOSION.

    Twenty bodies have already been brought to the surface in rescue work that followed an explosion in a coalmine at Sullivan, Indiana. ...

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  38. SURGEON'S FEAT.

    A surgical feat at St. James's Hospital saved the life of a London man, who had been stabbed twice in the heart, according to "The Lancet." ...

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  39. MOSCOW-VOLGA CANAL.

    To commemorate the opening of the new 80-mile canal from Moscow to the Volga, which Will enable ships to reach Moscow from the Baltic, the Casp[?]an, and the White Seas, the ...

    Article : 64 words
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