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  2. NEW UNION DEMAND 12/- INCREASE.

    The metal trade dispute became more serious yesterday, when 11 unions decided to issue a counter-ultimatum to the employers that, ...

    Article : 1,148 words
  3. ELECTRICITY.

    Business firms in the central city area are seriously concerned about the heavy cost of the conversion of electrical apparatus from direct current to ...

    Article : 832 words
  4. BIG LOSSES IN FLOODS. SHEEP DROWNED.

    The most serious result of the recent heavy rains was the loss of thousands of sheep on the north-western plains. ...

    Article : 447 words
  5. GAS IN MINE.

    At the Coroner's inquiry to-day into the deaths of 13 men who were killed in an explosion at the Wonthaggi State coalmine on February 15, Thomas Platt, ...

    Article : 612 words
  6. UNEASY PARIS STRIKE FOLLOWS RIOTS.

    A million workers, it is estimated, answered the overnight call of the Federation of Trades unions for a half-day strike as a protest against the shootings ...

    Article : 502 words
  7. WOMAN SHOOTS DIPLOMAT. GRIME IN PARIS.

    While waiting at the Gare du Nord platform in Paris for a train to Brussels, the Count de Chambrun, formerly French Ambassador to Italy, was ...

    Article : 481 words
  8. DASH TO HONOLULU. Woman's Round-the-World Flight Begins.

    Starting the first stage of a round-the-world flight at 4.38 p.m. yesterday (10.38 a.m. Thursday, Sydney time), Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam, piloting a Lodrheed-Electra 'plane, set out over the Pacific soon after two giant Clipper flying boats of the ...

    Article : 273 words
  9. DAMAGE TO ROADS.

    A number of country shires will be put to considerable expense to repair washaways to roads by this weeks floods. From the Tweed to Newcastle coastal roads were badly scoured, ...

    Article : 134 words
  10. WEATHER FAVOURS CROSSING.

    After the forecast, "Clear weather, with the exception of northerly crosswinds," had been received, the drone of powerful engines over the Golden ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 247 words
  11. MRS. SIMPSON.

    The "Central News" states that an application arising from the decree granted to Mrs. Simpson will be made in the Divorce Court on March 19. ...

    Article : 142 words
  12. CLICHY RIOTS.

    The "Manchester Guardian" prints the following account of the Clichy riots by an eyewitness:—"The night was dark. Cordons of Mobile Guards, leaning on muskets and ...

    Article : 239 words
  13. BUS SERVICES.

    Thousands of pounds will be paid by the Department of Road Transport in compensation to companies and individuals whose bus services were taken ...

    Article : 280 words
  14. BASS STRAIT GALES.

    Fierce westerly and south-westerly gales swept Bass Strait to-day. Many ships were delayed by the heavy seas, and other were forced to run for shelter. Sheep which were ...

    Article : 84 words
  15. WITNESSES DELAYED.

    Before the Chief Justice of Queensland (Sir James Blair), John Walter Johnston. 26, was charged to-day at the Circuit Court, Goondiwindi, that, on December 23, 1936, at ...

    Article : 177 words
  16. ALL RED ROUTE.

    A company has been formed in Perth with the object of making two exploratoiy Mights across the Indian Ocean to gain information enabling the linking of the Australian, ...

    Article : 263 words
  17. SPANISH OFFER.

    It is revealed that the Spanish Government sent a Note to Britain and France last month, promising them rights in Spanish Morocco in return for ...

    Article : 443 words
  18. ARGER NAVAL GUNS.

    The Foreign Office has received a despatch from the Ambassador at Tokyo (Sir Robert Clive) that a semi-official news agency and the "Asahi" announce that Japan will ...

    Article : 277 words
  19. NAVIGATION BY THE STARS.

    News of Mrs. Earhart Putnam's progress was flashed to the North American Newspaper Alliance in the following copyright message, from Captain ...

    Article : 478 words
  20. RADIO BEACON.

    When the P. and O. Royal mail liner Strathnaver returned from a cruise to New Zealand yesterday, her commander (Captain E. P Lyndon) said that a radio beacon for the ...

    Article : 193 words
  21. DRIFTING CARGO.

    Captain G. Manson, of the steamer Idant, which rescued the ciew of the collier Hall Caine before that vessel sank near Broken Bay on Wednesday night, reported yesterday ...

    Article : 126 words
  22. PACIFIC BASES.

    It is thought in aviation circles that there will be a race in the near future between British and American aviation interests to seek Pacific bases for trans-Pacific air ...

    Article : 293 words
  23. THE MERNOO.

    The interstate cargo steamer Mernoo is now being fitted out at Williamstown as a cable repair ship. She will be the first vessel of her kind owned in Australia. She has been ...

    Article : 204 words
  24. NEW CRUISERS.

    The new cruiseis Southampton and Newcastle, which have just been commissioned for service in the Home Fleet, are capable of a greater volume of fire than any British ...

    Article : 73 words
  25. ACTION AGAINST POLICE.

    The hearing of evidence was concluded yesterday in the action before Mr. Justice Halse Rogers in which Grace Mary Brady is claiming damages from Detective-inspector ...

    Article : 150 words
  26. PEAT'S FERRY BRIDGE.

    There is considerable satisfaction in the Wyong and Tuggerah districts at the Government's decision to authorise the building of a bridge over the Hawkesbury River at ...

    Article : 168 words
  27. SORTHERN UNION'S PLEDGE

    A conference of representatives of principal northern unions at the Newcastle Trades Hall to-night adopted a resolution pledging support to the strikers. The resolution ...

    Article : 54 words
  28. KNOWING HORSE.

    Charged at the Mansion House with leaving a horse unattended in Ludgate Circus, George Norton, a van driver, explained: "I had the misfortune to leave him near some traffic ...

    Article : 83 words
  29. EXPORT SUBSIDIES TO END.

    After six years, all Government export subsidies will cease in December. The subsidies were started when the gold standard prevailed, and were continued to retain oversea ...

    Article : 66 words
  30. MR. BALDWIN.

    Presumably preparatory to retirement from Downing-street, the Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin) has purchased a town house in E[?] S[?]are London ...

    Article : 111 words
  31. PROTEST IN VICTORIA.

    The second of a series of stop-work meetings by members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union was held to-day to pretest against the new award of the Arbitration ...

    Article : 79 words
  32. PRINTING UNION.

    The Federal council of the Printing Industry Employees' Union to-day decided to proceed with the application now before the Federal Court to reduce the weekly hours of ...

    Article : 73 words
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