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  2. CRICKETERS PRACTISE TO DEFEND THE ASHES.

    At the Melbourne Cricket Ground to-day the fifth test match begins, and on its result depends whether Australia retains the Ashes or surrenders them to England. The pictures above show some of the Australians at practice. On the left, L. Nash, one of the fast bowlers in the provisional 13 players selected, sends one down at top speed; the central picture shows M. W. Sievers (left) and K. E. Rigg having batting practice; on the right is a closer view of Sievers. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. STRIKES IN U.S.A.

    Twenty-five thousand workers are idle throughout the United States as a result of labour disputes, according to an estimate prepared by the ...

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  4. TRADE WITH EAST.

    A marked drift in Australia's trade relations with China, a further development of the adverse trade situation with the Netherlands East ...

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  5. TOBACCO INDUSTRY

    A former employee of the British-Australasian Tobacco Co, Pty., Ltd., told the select committee inquiring into the tobacco industry in New South Wales ...

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  6. LABOUR IN BRITAIN.

    Further consideration of the expulsion from the Labour party of Sir Stafford Cripps, leader of the Socialist League, and other members of the ...

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  7. ENGINEERS.

    Engineers employed at waterfront workshops, numbering about 400, went on strike yesterday as a protest against the provisions of the new ...

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  8. FREIGHT RATES.

    Japanese shipping, lines intend to raise the rates for cargo consigned to Australia by from 20 to 25 per cent. about the middle of the year. ...

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  9. ACTOR'S DEATH.

    Sir Guy Standing, the famous actor, died from a heart attack while chatting with an employee in the office of a motor agency. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  10. BRITISH GOODS.

    The principal feature of the new Anglo-Canadian trade agreement, which will be published on Friday, is a reduction of Canadian tariff duties on a large range of British ...

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  11. TENOR'S ALLEGATIONS.

    Anthony Pesei, an operatic tenor, testified before the committee of the House of Representatives that is hearing evidence on the proposed bill to prohibit the importation of ...

    Article : 124 words
  12. SOCIALISATION AIM.

    The national executive of the Labour party decided yesterday to go to the country at the next election with a short reconstruction programme which could be carried out in the ...

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  13. BARRIERS TO TRADE.

    A speech made by the Australian High Commissioner (Mr. Bruce) at the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the British Industries Fair is described in a leading article ...

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  14. FATAL MOTOR COLLISION.

    One man suffered injuries from which he died laterand five other persons were injured, when two motor cars collided head-on on the Melbourne-road, a mile and a half from ...

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  15. NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA.

    Long discussions to-day between the Australian Minister in Charge of Trade Treaties Sir Henry Gullett) ano the Canadian Minister for Commerce (Mr. Euler) have advanced ...

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  16. DR. TOWNSEND CONVICTED.

    Dr. Francis T. Townsend, the Californian physician, who evolved the Townsend Pensions pla[?], has been convicted of contempt of the House of Representatives by a Federal jury. ...

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  17. EMPIRE AIR SERVICES.

    Southampton will supplant Croydon as the base of Empire air travel from Saturday week. The present service from the new base, which is at Hythe, on Southampton Water, will be ...

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  18. THE CALL-UP

    There will be a call-up for employment to-day. Details appear on page 20, column 5. ...

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  19. MAN FOUND WITH HEAD INJURIES.

    Frederick Wilmott, 43, was found seriously injured in bed at his home in Cox-avenue, Bondi, late last night. Wilmott was suffering from concussion, ...

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  20. EMPIRE SUGAR PRODUCTION.

    Exports of sugar from all parts of the colonial Empire in the calendar year 1936 totalled almost exactly 1,000,000 tons, including the sugar equivalent of fancy molasses ...

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  21. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 222 words
  22. INDIAN ARRESTED.

    The correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at Dar-es-Salaam (Tanganyika) says the police, after a long search, arrested a young Indian merchant, Hasmani, who ...

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  23. BALANCE OF PAYMENTS.

    The Board of Trade estimate of the [?] of payments in 1936 shows a debit balance of £19,000,000, compared with a revised credit balance of £33,000,000 a year before, ...

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  24. POLICE FIRE ON CROWD.

    Gendarmes killed three persons and wounded seven when they fired a volley into a group of miners and women who were demonstrating in support of a "stay-in" strike in a ...

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  25. ILL-TREATMENT OF SAILORS.

    The Foreign Secretary (Mr. Eden) told the House of Commons to-day that the ill-treatment inflicted upon three British sailors by Japanese police officials at Keelung in ...

    Article : 101 words
  26. CUSTOMS BREACHES.

    In the Perth Police Court to-day the Australian Machinery and Investment Co., Ltd., was fined £1850 on seven charges, one denied and six admitted, of Customs breaches. ...

    Article : 139 words
  27. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 256 words
  28. ROYAL BROTHERS.

    Cheering and shouting, "Hoch, Windsor, Heil, Kent," crowds "mobbed" the Duke of Windsor and the Duk[?] of Kent several times yesterday. Wherever their car appeared, ...

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  29. DOMINIONS AND THE CIVIL LIST.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin) was asked in the House of Commons if the Government would ascertain whether Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa, ...

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  30. "AUSTRALIAN FEELING"

    Sir Edward Harding, Permanent Undersecretary for the Dominions, said, on his return from Australia, that he had been impressed most during his visit by the ...

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  31. INDIAN ELECTIONS.

    The Congress party has captured 27 of the 46 seats in the Upper House of Madras, ensuring a majority. Congress supporters so far have, won 32 seats in the Lower House, ...

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  32. BOMB KILLS FILM PLAYER.

    During the filming of a battle scene in "The Road Back" to-day, a bomb exploded unexpectedly on the universal lot, and George Daley, an extra, who was operating a machine ...

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  33. BRAWL IN SHANGHAI.

    A peace offering has ended Anglo-Italian friction in Shanghai. Four privates of the North Lancashire Regiment were injured in a fight in a dance hall ...

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  34. SMOKER WHO STARTED FATAL FIRE.

    William Hoffman, a house painter, who was charged with second-degree manslaughter following a fire in a four-story residential building, in which five persons were killed, was ...

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  35. MAN KILLED.

    William James Flynn, 73, an old-age pensioner, of Goodsell-street, Newtown, was killed by ft train while he was attempting to recapture a canary which had escaped on to ...

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  36. BRISBANE TEACHER'S DEATH

    The remains of Miss Hazel McCullough who was killed in a motor accident yesterday, were cremated. The ashes will be sent to Brisbane by the Qantas 'plane leaving here ...

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  37. CAR PARKING.

    The Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. S A. Maddocks) yesterday received advice through the Agent-General's office in London that 15 commercial garages have co-operated ...

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  38. TO-DAY.

    Theatre Royal: Russian Ballet, 8. Tivoli Theatre: "Good-bye. Sydney," 2.30. 8. Mayfair Theatre: "This'll Make You Whistle," "A Woman Alone," 10.45. 2, 5, 8. ...

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  39. BATTLEFIELD OF WATERLOO

    The Brussels correspondent of "The Times" says that the question of the preservation of the battlefield of Waterloo is causing concern in Anglo-Belgian circles. Belgium legislated ...

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  40. IRON ORE FROM YAMPI SOUND.

    Three experts of a Japanese iron company [?] Messrs. Furudate, Mori, and Tsukamoto, will arrive in Sydney in the Kamo Maru on March l8 to make further investigations in ...

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  41. ITALY SNUBS LEAGUE.

    According to the Rome correspondent of the British United Press, it is understood that the Italian Government is sending a note to Geneva that Italy will not send delegates to ...

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  42. KING GIVES AUDIENCE TO MR. BRUCE.

    Before he held his second investiture since his ascension to the Throne the King gave an audience to the Australian High Commissioner (Mr. Bruce). ...

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  43. BRITAIN AND U.S.A.

    The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Walter Runciman), who recently visited Washington, releired in a speech in London to the benefits which would arise from a ...

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  44. WOMEN MISSIONARIES.

    Five English women missionaries at Higashikozu, a village near Osaka, who were sheltering two girls who had escaped from a disorderly house, were attacked by the ...

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  45. MAN CRUSHED BY TRACTOR.

    When George Milton Johnston, 41, a Sackville North orchardlst, did not come up from the orchard to his house for his dinner at the usual hour last night, his wife went to ...

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  46. EASTERN PACT.

    Askrd in the House of Commons whether it was the view of the British Government that the conclusion of the Easter", pact was a cardinal feature in the European situation, the ...

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  47. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Gola was quoted to-day at £7/2/2½ an ounce fine, the same rate as yesterday's. MENAI STRAITS BRIDGE. Telford's famous suspension bridge across ...

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  48. NORWEGIAN WHALERS.

    [?]orwegian whaling companies have sold to Germany 60,000 tons of whale oil at £21/10/ a[?]ton. ...

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  49. AIR FORCE APPOINTMENTS.

    The King has approved the following appointments to take effect from September 1, 1937: Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Edward Ellington, Chief of the Air Staff, to ...

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  50. FAIRBRIDGE FARM SCHOOL.

    The gift of £500 to the Fairbridge Farm School by the Commonwealth B[?] was made under the bank's rural credit development scheme. ...

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  51. SUBUR[?]AN AND COUNTRY PICTURE THEATRES.

    Prosrammes of Suburban ano Country [?] Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertisement Columu. ...

    Article : 24 words
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