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  2. ROAD SAFETY.

    At a general meeting of the Road Safety Conference held last night it was announced by the Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. S. A. ...

    Article : 413 words
  3. SHIP COLLISION.

    Newspaper reports that a diver had recovered documents from the wreck of the Karariki engaged the attention to-day of the Marine Court, which is ...

    Article : 380 words
  4. DEFEAT OF UGAKI.

    Secret information from Tokyo refutes the report that a majority of the army was opposed to the appointment of General Ugaki as Prime Minister. ...

    Article : 169 words
  5. DISMISSAL OF POLICE

    When the Police Appeals Board resumed yesterday, Mr. Watt, K.C., criticised the Chief Secretary (Mr. Chaffey) for having ordered the ...

    Article : 782 words
  6. AUSTERE BEAUTY IN UNIVERSITY COLONNADE.

    The slender pillars and stout arches of the Winthrop Hall. University of Western Australia, borrow beauty from the austerity of their line, and, with their outline reflected in the Pool of Remembrance, are reminiscent of Venice. The building—carried out in limestone, with the feature work in creamy Donnybrook stone—is Romanesque in feeling and was erected by bequest of the late Sir Winthrop Hackett. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 69 words
  7. RELATIONS BETWEEN POWERS.

    According to the Diplomatic Correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," British and German circles now expect a period of stocktaking in international discussions, including the ...

    Article : 174 words
  8. CASUALTIES.

    Lewis Merritt, 50, engineer, was severely injured at his residence, Mil Mil-street, Blue's Point, yesterday, when a boiler, on which he was working, exploded. The Central ...

    Article : 446 words
  9. GARBO'S MONEY.

    Insurance records have disclosed that Greta Garbo, who is 30, is certain of security in her old-age. Her fortune now amounts to 500,000 dollars ...

    Article : 93 words
  10. PLAYTIME IN GERMANY.

    The German passion for organisation has never been more strongly exemplified than it is [?] the curious "Strength Through Joy" movement, ...

    Article : 568 words
  11. SHIPPING RATES.

    In addition to an increase in coastal freight rates from February 15, by 3/ a ton, the Union Steamship and other companies announce that intercolonial freights will be increased ...

    Article : 96 words
  12. WOUNDED GIRL.

    At the Goulburn Police Court, before Mr. W. F. Britz, P.M., Frank Eustace Langford, 26, charged with having, on the night of January 19, feloniously wounded Margaret ...

    Article : 406 words
  13. CITY COUNCIL'S ATTITUDE.

    The works committee of the City Council, at a meeting yesterday, decided to recommend that the council should approve the proposal of the Road Safety Conference for a prima ...

    Article : 54 words
  14. FASCIST PROPAGANDA.

    The recent speeches of the First Lord of the Admiralty (Sir Samuel Hoare) and the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence (Sir Thomas Inskip) are being used in Rome ...

    Article : 103 words
  15. THANKSGIVING FOR RAIN.

    The Council of Churches has suggested that February 21 should be set apart among churches for united and individual thanksgiving to God for the lifting of the drought. ...

    Article : 32 words
  16. THE CALL-UP.

    [?] call-up for employment is announced to-day. Details are published on page 20, column 3. ...

    Article : 18 words
  17. DUKE OF WINDSOR.

    According to the "Daily Mirror," 'the Princess Royal will make the Royal Family's final appeal to the Duke of Windsor not to marry Mrs. Simpson. ...

    Article : 168 words
  18. SEAMEN'S UNION.

    A somewhat complicated position has arisen in the Queensland branch of the Seamen's Union, for the secretaryship for which there were two claimants at the Brisbane office ...

    Article : 193 words
  19. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 244 words
  20. NEW FLYING-BOATS.

    After two delays, one caused by engin[?] trouble and the other by the weather, th[?] new Imperial Airways flying boat Castor took off from Southampton at 7.30 a.m. ...

    Article : 74 words
  21. MELBOURNE BOXING.

    After a fierce exchange of blows in the ninth round of the principal 12-round boxing contest at the West Melbourne Stadium to-night, Hughie Mchegan (9st 6½lb), of ...

    Article : 93 words
  22. CONSTABLE BEVERIDGE.

    The Chief Secretary (Mr. Chaffey) said yesterday that he had been responsible for the reinstatement of Constable H. T. Beveridge, who had been dismissed from the police force ...

    Article : 237 words
  23. DEADLY POISON GAS.

    The "Daily Herald" and the "Daily Mirror" give detailed accounts of two years of secret tests of poison gases carried out by a few scentists in a room of the biochemical ...

    Article : 114 words
  24. RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

    At the council meeting of the National Rifle Association of New South Wales yesterday, it was decided that the prize money for the 150th anniversary prize meeting, which ...

    Article : 237 words
  25. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 272 words
  26. AUXILIARY YACHT.

    The Postal Department stated yesterday that the Sydney yacht Rondon, which is to leave for a voyage to Lord Howe Island on Friday, will be entrusted with mails for the ...

    Article : 120 words
  27. GIRL'S ESCAPADE.

    A 16-year-old orphan girl, who was determined not to go to a boarding-school, held up two Union Castle liners at sea. She stowed away aboard the Carnarvon ...

    Article : 98 words
  28. DUNTROON.

    The Minister for Defence (Sir Archdale Parkhill) announced yesterday that the following candidates (in order of merit) had been selected for admission to the Royal ...

    Article : 137 words
  29. NEW THIGH BONE.

    Ella Hunter, aged 9, of Stoke Newington (London) underwent an operation in a metropolitan hospital for osteomyelitis (inflammation of the marrow of bone), and is now ...

    Article : 131 words
  30. THIEVES ACTIVE IN ADELAIDE.

    During the week-end, thieves forced th[?] [?]ocks on doors and cupboards at the premises of Gollin and Co. Pty., Ltd., merchants, of Gawler-place, city, and stole hosiery valued ...

    Article : 104 words
  31. SINGAPORE BASE.

    The Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Kenneth Lindsay), in an interview published in Bombay, said that the Singapore base would be almost impregnable when the full ...

    Article : 61 words
  32. THE MAKURA

    The former Royal mall steamer Makura, of the Union-Pacific Line, reached Melbourne from New Zealand yesterday on the first part of her last voyage. She is on her way to ...

    Article : 84 words
  33. SEAMAN'S DEATH.

    Gilbert Peate, 33, leading seaman in the H.M.A.S. Swan, died in the David Berry Hospital to-day from injuries which he received when he fell down a flight of stairs in the ship ...

    Article : 83 words
  34. TO-DAY.

    Sydney Town Hall: Opening of the Referendum Campaign by the Prime Minister, 8. Theatre Royal: Russian Ballet, [?] Tivoli Theatre: "All Dressed Up." 2.30, [?]. ...

    Article : 235 words
  35. FATAL AFFRAY.

    As a sequel to the fatal affray late on Saturday night, when a relief worker named Harry Brown was found in a lonely lane at the rear of the Brisbane Grammar School with his ...

    Article : 76 words
  36. CAR PARKING.

    Mr. F. P. Watson, of Melbourne, a buyer for Richard Allen and Sons, has patented an invention which, it is claimed, will enable a car to move sideways for the purpose of ...

    Article : 100 words
  37. HITLER SALUTE TO KING GEORGE.

    The "Volkischer Beobachter," explains that the German Ambassador in London, Herr von Ribbentrop, gave the Hitler salute to King George at Buckingham Palace, as a "special ...

    Article : 62 words
  38. 395th LOTTERY.

    Principal prizes in the 395th State Lottery were drawn at the Australian Hall yesterday, by Mr. Norman I. Lloyd, of Narrabri. First prize was won by the "Black Cat' ...

    Article : 107 words
  39. MONTEREY'S SAILING

    The Sydney office of the Matson Line stated yesterday that the next sailing of the Monterey from Sydney for San Francisco would be postponed from March 3 to March 5, to ...

    Article : 122 words
  40. SEARCH FOR LOST TRAMPER.

    A young Wellington tramper, Elmo Bartosh, is missing in the Tararua Ranges. Police and bushmen are co-operating in a search, which began to-day. ...

    Article : 31 words
  41. PETROL EXPLODES.

    While her mother was rinsing out a suit of clothes in a small tub of petrol shortly before noon to-day, Joyce Ethel Wright, aged 3 years, living at Oakover-street, East ...

    Article : 101 words
  42. FINES FOR SLY-GROG SELLING.

    Stephen Leslie Ba[?]ley, 45, engineer, was [?]ed £30 at the Licensing Court yesterday, on a charge of having sold beer without a licence at Cronulla on January 23. Sergeant ...

    Article : 88 words
  43. FIRE IN GARAGE.

    A fire, the origin of which is unknown, destroyed 40 gallons of benzine and a quantity of oil, and severely damaged a motor car, at the residence of George Marshall, ...

    Article : 55 words
  44. MR. SEPPINGS WRIGHT.

    Mr. H. C. Seppings Wright, the veteran war correspondent and newspaper artist, has died. Mr. Seppings Wright served as artist and correspondent of the "Illustrated London News" ...

    Article : 82 words
  45. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Gold was quoted to-day at £7/2/1 an ounce fine, compared with £7/2/1½ on Saturday. DUSTSTORMS IN U.S.A. ...

    Article : 62 words
  46. MAITLAND LABOUR PARTY.

    Officers elected at the annual meeting of the Maitland branch of the State Labour party were as follow:—President, Mr. W. F. O'Hearn; vice-presidents, Messrs. J. Fuge, J. Nicholson: ...

    Article : 74 words
  47. SYDNEY GRAMMAR OLD BOYS.

    A special meeting of the Sydney Church of England Grammar School Old Boys' Union to consider plans for the school jubilee fund will be held at the school next Monday ...

    Article : 60 words
  48. BAKERS FINED.

    At the Coolangatta Industrial Court, two local bakers, John L. Hutton and William Hugh Moffatt, were proceeded against for having delivered and sold bread on a Sunday. It was ...

    Article : 73 words
  49. MOLDAVIA'S HOMEWARD VOYAGE.

    The P. and O. Royal ma[?]l steamer Moldavia, which was delayed for several days at Bombay for repairs to a propeller during her voyage from England, will reach Sydney on ...

    Article : 76 words
  50. TEACHERS' FEDERATION.

    The counting of the ballot for the election of seven councillors for the Public School Teachers' Federation of New South Wales was completed last night. There were 33 ...

    Article : 54 words
  51. SUBURBAN AND COUNTRY PICTURE THEATRES.

    Programmes of Suburban and Country [?] Theatres will be found in the Amusements Advertisement Columns. ...

    Article : 11 words
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