Unemployment amongst trades unionists in Australia was reduced, during: the first quarter of 1937, practically to the pre-depression level. ...
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Article : 88 wordsThe War Department has granted permission to Wing-Commander L. J. Wackett and his four assistants who are representing the Commonwealth ...
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Article : 215 wordsThe implied offer of an olive branch to the Soviet by the German Minister for Economics (Dr. Schacht), in an after-dinner speech at the home of the ...
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Article : 339 wordsOn his return from Melbourne yesterday, the Minister for Health (Mr. FitzSimons) arranged for a conference with the Inspector-General of Mental Hospitals (Dr. Wallace) to consider ...
Article : 354 wordsA spirit of conciliation was manifest at a meeting of the chairman's sub-committee of the International Non-intervention Committee to-day, when the representatives of Italy and ...
Article : 251 wordsThe president of the Air Transport Association of America (Mr. Gorrell) has informed the air and postal committee of Congress that his association has ordered 'planes capable of ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Dr. Page) has received a request from Professor Robert Stanley McCordock, Professor of History at the Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, ...
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Article : 100 wordsNominations closed yesterday for the Gwydir by-election. There were no surprise nominations, the names of the four previously announced ...
Article : 255 wordsThe mail bag which was dropped by the Qantas 'plane at Alexandria station (Northern Territory) yesterday, while on its way to Brunette Downs, and ...
Article : 220 wordsPolice raided the headquarters of the National Will-Power (Nazi) party, the largest such organisation in Hungary, and arrested the leader, Major Ferencz Szalasy, and 24 ...
Article : 36 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph," referring to the need for strengthening the ties between Britain and Holland, refers to reports that under the pact between Germany and Japan, ...
Article : 187 wordsThe Roman Catholic Archbishop of Wellington (Dr. O'Shea) has protested against allegations at the Anglican General Synod, by the Bishop of Melanesia (Bishop Baddeley) that ...
Article : 110 wordsHaving pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy at the Lismore Quarter Sessions, Peter Ehlefeldt, 36, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, Ernest Bede Fitzgerald, 40, to ...
Article : 97 wordsThe discussions at the shipping conference on April 19 are expected to result in an increase in passenger fares on trans-Pacific liners, including the Matson vessels, of between ...
Article : 170 wordsThe wooden walls of the training ship Cornwall, which was built in Bombay 122 years ago, and served throughout the China War in 1841, withstood the shock when the Soviet ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Minister for Works and Local Government (Mr. Spooner) said to-day that the sum of £13,887/19/, awarded by the Land Court to Cranbrook Playing Fields, Ltd., would be ...
Article : 234 wordsA section of delegates at the Country party conference at Geelong to-day counted out the retiring chief president (Mr. R. Skeat). ...
Article : 211 wordsThe leader of the Communist party in northern New South Wales (Mr. R. Cram) said at a Rylands strike meeting at Newcastle Trades Hall to-night that it was "official" ...
Article : 65 wordsA prominent Arab police officer, Halim Basta, long regarded as an enemy by terrorists in Haifa, was shot dead in a street to-day. He returned to duty recently after he had ...
Article : 56 wordsBy a curious coincidence, there are two young Europeans in Darwin's Chinatown who were adopted in infancy, in one case by Chinese and in the other by Japanese foster ...
Article : 213 wordsPolice from Bankstown and Campsie station, dragged the George's River, near East Hills yesterday, after it had been reported that Samuel Orlando Jones, 45, of Bass-avenue, ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Postmaster-General (Major Tryon) stated to-day that the British Broadcasting Corporation is considering whether broadcasts from Empire stations should, be made ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. and Mrs. Mendel Picket and their son, Charles aged 15, have filed a suit in the State Supreme Court claiming 75,000 dollars (£Aust. 18,750) damages from the Bronx ...
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Article : 123 wordsPrincess Rajiha, sister of King Ghazi of Iraq, has become engaged to Flight-Lieutenant Abdul Jabdar Mahmoud, of the Royal Iraq Air Force. ...
Article : 163 wordsThomas O'Brien, 24, of Bay-street, Botany, died in the Royal South Sydney Hospital last night from the effects of head and internal injuries which he received early last ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Pope granted an audience to-day to the Prime Minister of Australia (Mr. Lyons). (Other cable news appears on page 18.) ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 17 Apr 1937, Page 17
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