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  2. AUSTRALIAN EMPLOYMENT

    Unemployment amongst trades unionists in Australia was reduced, during: the first quarter of 1937, practically to the pre-depression level. ...

    Article : 300 words
  3. NEW LOAN.

    The New South Wales proportion of the £7,500,000 loan which is to be raised in a few weeks was tentatively fixed at to-day's meeting of the Loan ...

    Article : 522 words
  4. PARK STATUE VANISHES.

    A sensation was caused at Lismore when it was discovered early this morning that the bronze figure of a lancer, which stood on the top of the ...

    Article : 533 words
  5. THREAT BY HITLER. CATHOLICS IN GERMANY.

    The Vienna correspondent of the "News-Chronicle" says that well-informed Roman Catholics understand that Herr Hitler will have all ...

    Article : 347 words
  6. SHOTS FIRED.

    Mr. Fred Jones, a trader on Vanikoro Island, Southern Solomons, in a letter received in Sydney, relates how, early last month, the occupants of a ...

    Article : 504 words
  7. CONTROL OF AVIATION.

    Representatives of the States at the aviation conference to-day agreed to introduce legislation to provide that Commonwealth regulations shall ...

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  8. STRIKE WAVE IN U.S.A.

    Five thousand dressmakers, whose union is affiliated with the American Committee for Industrial Organisation, struck to-day for union ...

    Article : 257 words
  9. ATTEMPT TO RUN BLOCKADE. "POTATO" JONES FAILS.

    "Potato" Jones, Welsh skipper and part-owner of the freighter Mary Llewellyn (900 tons), failed in an attempt to run the Spanish rebel ...

    Article : 656 words
  10. AUSTRALIA ON THE GLOBE.

    A suggestion that Australia should not appear "upside down" on terrestial globes for use in the Southern Hemisphere is to be made to the ...

    Article : 424 words
  11. SEAMEN'S STRIKE SETTLED.

    The strike of seamen aboard the liner President Roosevelt extended, and the American Radio-Telegraphists' Association became involved. ...

    Article : 88 words
  12. WAR 'PLANES.

    The War Department has granted permission to Wing-Commander L. J. Wackett and his four assistants who are representing the Commonwealth ...

    Article : 136 words
  13. JAPANESE PEARLERS.

    A proposal that headquarters of the Japanese pearling fleet should be established at Darwin is to be made to the Federal authorities, according to Mr. Peter Nakashlba, an ...

    Article : 215 words
  14. GERMAN OLIVE BRANCH.

    The 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 ...

    Article : 272 words
  15. BROADCASTS OF RACES

    A suggestion that broadcasting and television would eventually kill organised racing, unless racing companies received adequate protection, was made ...

    Article : 339 words
  16. RECEPTION HOUSE.

    On 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 words
  17. QUESTION OF VOLUNTEERS

    A 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 words
  18. HUGE TRANSPORT MACHINES.

    The 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 words
  19. DR. EARLE PAGE.

    The Acting Prime Minister (Dr. Page) has received a request from Professor Robert Stanley McCordock, Professor of History at the Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, ...

    Article : 292 words
  20. MRS. BONNEY AT BATAVIA.

    I arrived at Batavia at 3.30 this afternoon, having left Sourabaya at 10.30 a.m. Conditions were bad to Semarang. I could not get around the storms. I circled around Semarang for ...

    Article : 100 words
  21. GWYDIR BY-ELECTION. NOMINATIONS CLOSE.

    Nominations closed yesterday for the Gwydir by-election. There were no surprise nominations, the names of the four previously announced ...

    Article : 255 words
  22. MAILS LOST.

    The 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 words
  23. HUNGARIAN NAZIS.

    Police 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 words
  24. HOLLAND AND BRITAIN

    The "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 words
  25. BISHOP'S CHARGES.

    The 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 words
  26. CONSPIRACY CHARGE.

    Having 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 words
  27. TRANS-PACIFIC FARES.

    The 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 words
  28. HISTORIC SHIP IN MISHAP.

    The 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 words
  29. GOVERNMENT WILL PAY.

    The 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 words
  30. COUNTRY PARTY.

    A section of delegates at the Country party conference at Geelong to-day counted out the retiring chief president (Mr. R. Skeat). ...

    Article : 211 words
  31. COMMUNISTS SUPPORT LABOUR.

    The 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 words
  32. ARAB TERRORISTS.

    A 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 words
  33. WHITE CHILDREN

    By 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 words
  34. POLICE DRAG RIVER.

    Police 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 words
  35. PROPAGANDA WAR.

    The Postmaster-General (Major Tryon) stated to-day that the British Broadcasting Corporation is considering whether broadcasts from Empire stations should, be made ...

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  36. FAMILY CAST FROM MONKEY HOUSE.

    Mr. 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 ...

    Article : 136 words
  37. RACING CREWS FIRED ON.

    Boys with airguns at Abbotsford have been shooting at racing crews of the Great Public Schools. The airguns fire only light pellets, which would probably not harm the rowers ...

    Article : 123 words
  38. IRAQI PRINCESS ENGAGED.

    Princess Rajiha, sister of King Ghazi of Iraq, has become engaged to Flight-Lieutenant Abdul Jabdar Mahmoud, of the Royal Iraq Air Force. ...

    Article : 163 words
  39. SECOND DEATH.

    Thomas 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 words
  40. AUDIENCE WITH POPE.

    The Pope granted an audience to-day to the Prime Minister of Australia (Mr. Lyons). (Other cable news appears on page 18.) ...

    Article : 34 words
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