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  2. ROYAL TOUR REPORT.

    Although there is no official foundation for reports that the King and Queen may visit the dominions within three years, unofficial information ...

    Article : 228 words
  3. DARWIN'S DEFENCES

    By establishing a naval fuelling station and a fortress at Darwin, Australia has undertaken military obligations the extent of which may not be ...

    Article : 841 words
  4. TELEVISION.

    Television viewers like light vaudeville and cabaret with plenty of movement and music. They are less pleased —so far as they express their opinions ...

    Article : 425 words
  5. PROBLEMS OF EMPIRE. VITAL CONFERENCE

    The Imperial Conference, which will open in London to-day, will probably be the most momentous which has been held since the Great War. ...

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  6. EARLY ELECTION LIKELY.

    The intention of the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) to curtail his absence from Australia as much as possible strengthens the belief that the Ministry will fix ...

    Article : 194 words
  7. C.P. LEADERSHIP.

    Mr. V. C. Thompson, M.P., whip and secretary of the Federal Parliamentary Country party, denied yesterday that the result of the Gwydir by-election ...

    Article : 463 words
  8. ABYSSINIA IN CHAOS.

    Italy will probably be forced to abandon Abyssinia—that is the opinion of impartial French observers here in Jibuti. ...

    Article : 1,572 words
  9. BLAZE AT FILM HOUSE.

    A spectacular fire, which destroyed the top floor of Film House, 251a Pitt-street, city, a seven-storcy building, yesterday morning, brought out all ...

    Article : 644 words
  10. OUR OXFORD-STREET.

    Less imposing, perhaps, than its London namesake, where most shops stand many stories high, our own Oxford-street still makes one of the greatest half-miles of retail trade ...

    Article : 856 words
  11. HOUSING.

    Rapid progress has been made in the preliminaries to the building of homes under the Government housing scheme, and actual building is expected to begin ...

    Article : 613 words
  12. INSTRUCTIONS TO JOCKEY

    In a case before the Workers' Compensation Commission yesterday, George Enoch Carter, a jockey, said that frequently the instructions which ...

    Article : 382 words
  13. SCHOOL BROADCASTS.

    An interesting report from the honorary secretary to the Schools Broadcasts Advisory Council (Mr. A. E. Riley) contains replies from schools to a questionnaire. ...

    Article : 654 words
  14. HALF-DAY STRIKE.

    The engineers in the waterfront shops held a half-day strike yesterday, and attended a mass meeting to discuss demands for increased wages. Union ...

    Article : 230 words
  15. EARLY SYDNEY.

    We all know that the site of the first settlement at Sydney Cove was determined by the fact that there was a beautiful stream of water flowing into the bay. There is ...

    Article : 635 words
  16. LABOUR COUNCIL'S FEARS.

    A motion was carried by the Trades Hall Labour Council last night, directing the attention of unions to "dangers threatening the political and economic rights of the Australian ...

    Article : 93 words
  17. SEAPLANE BASE.

    The Mayor of Woollahra (Alderman Arthur Griffith) said last night that not one complaint had been received from a ratepayer in the municipality concerning the council's ...

    Article : 349 words
  18. THIEVES' "CAT-LIKE TREAD."

    Thieves who entered a combined shop and dwelling in Fitzroy-street, Kirribilli, between midnight and 6 a.m. yesterday made pads for their feet from towels which they found ...

    Article : 196 words
  19. EXPLORATIONS.

    Preparations are being made for three separate scientific expeditions into the interior of Australia within the next few weeks. Dr. C. T. Madigan, lecturer in geology at ...

    Article : 238 words
  20. MEAT EXPORTERS' LOSSES.

    Unprecedented difficulties are facing the meat export industry. There is an acute shortage of shipping space, and the freezing works are rapidly ...

    Article : 124 words
  21. SNAKES AND BIRDS OF N.S.W.

    Black snakes are fairly common in swampy areas in New South Wales, but few places contain so many as the "brush" areas near Wallis Lake, according to Mr. J. R. Kinghorn, ...

    Article : 150 words
  22. WOMAN OF 84 HAS FIRST FLIGHT.

    Mrs. E. Miller, of Grantham-street, Burwood, who is aged 84, years, had her first flight in an aeroplane yesterday, and enjoyed it. She flew from Wilcannia to the ...

    Article : 100 words
  23. UNIONS' CASE.

    The continued decrease in unemployment and the rise in both internal and export prices were advanced by Mr. P. J. Clarey, before the Full Court of the Arbitration Court ...

    Article : 219 words
  24. GAOL WRECKED.

    Although he had had "only two drinks to celebrate the Coronation," Victor Wilson, a trepanger, wrecked the only three cells of the Darwin Police Station, assaulted the sergeant ...

    Article : 134 words
  25. OBITUARY.

    Mrs. D. Lorimer, who died at Hornsby on Tuesday, was a noted charity worker. During the war she was honorary treasurer of the St. Ives branch of the Red Cross Society, ...

    Article : 118 words
  26. THIEVING RAT

    The disappearance of a valuable diamond ring from a dressing table in a room while a woman was sleeping one night last week puzzled the police until a strange clue ...

    Article : 159 words
  27. GOLD YIELD HIGHER BY 25 PER CENT.

    Gold production in Australia in the first quarter of this year showed an increase of about 25 per cent. over that of the corresponding quarter of last year. The ...

    Article : 79 words
  28. POSTAL AND TELEPHONE CHARGES.

    A meeting of the executive of the Postage Reduction League, and representatives of supporting organisations, yesterday, decided to ask the Acting Prime Minister (Dr. Page) ...

    Article : 87 words
  29. SEA TRAINING.

    The Acting Minister for Defence (Mr. Thorby) will receive a deputation at the Commonwealth offices, Martin-place, on Monday, at 10 a.m., on the question of the need for a ...

    Article : 41 words
  30. VISIT OF JUNKERS 'PLANE.

    The Junkers Diesel-engined 'plane will leave Essendon aerodrome to-morrow morning and will land at Cootamundra, where it will remain overnight. It will fly on to Sydney ...

    Article : 39 words
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