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  2. MRS. FREER.

    Dissatisfaction which exists among private members of the United Australia party with the decision of the Minister for the Interior (Mr. ...

    Article : 346 words
  3. ENGLISH TEAM.

    The English cricket, captain (G. O. Allen), who is resting from the match against an Australian Eleven, witnessed the opening day's play at the ...

    Article : 640 words
  4. LABOUR PARTY BALLOT.

    Ballots will be conducted by the State Labour party to-day to select candidates for the House of Representatives and the Senate at the next ...

    Article : 623 words
  5. KING'S PROMISE.

    "Something will be done about unemployment," the King said, in conversation with the chairman of one of the unemployed committees, on his ...

    Article : 409 words
  6. HUME DAM

    When the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) pressed an electrically controlled button on a dais on the New South Wales side of the Hume reservoir ...

    Article : 1,283 words
  7. BOOT FACTORY DESTROYED.

    The large boot factory of John Hunter and Sons, Douglas and Castlereagh streets, Redfern, was destroyed by fire late last night. ...

    Article : 680 words
  8. REBEL BLOCKADE.

    The rebel leader, General Franco, has sent a message to the British Government, indicating that the safety of British warships at certain Spanish ports will be guaranteed only at specified anchorages. ...

    Article : 185 words
  9. BRITISH DELEGATION TO VISIT MADRID.

    A delegation of members of the British Parliament, representing all parties, is going to Madrid immediately to "gain personal information and to ...

    Article : 667 words
  10. GIRL THIEVES

    Two girls, each aged about 18, threatened 25 women with a large pair of tailor's shears, and stole £50 from a safe, at the workroom of W. H. Andrews ...

    Article : 314 words
  11. NAVAL EXPANSION.

    The First Lord of the Admiralty (Sir Samuel Hoare) announced in a speech in London yesterday that arrangements were being made for the greater part of the work ...

    Article : 48 words
  12. FRAUD CHARGES.

    Twelve bankers and lawyers were indicted by the Federal Grand Jury in regard to the 132,000,000-dollar collapse of a Philadelphia company, which ...

    Article : 81 words
  13. UPPER HOUSE.

    The credentials committee of the State Labour party last night selected a full ticket of candidates to contest the Upper House elections on December 8. There are 15 [?]cancies ...

    Article : 135 words
  14. HISTORIC TROPHY.

    During the luncheon interval at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday, Mr. Victor Cohen, the oldest surviving member of the ground, presented to the trustees and the members ...

    Article : 205 words
  15. LAKE TRAGEDY.

    Richard Wills, 65, old age pensioner, was drowned when a rowing boat overturned within a stone's throw of his home at Wangi Point, Lake Macquarie, ...

    Article : 467 words
  16. BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE TO PROPOSED BLOCKADE.

    General Franco's proclamation of thei impending bombardment of Barcelona and other ports, and the recognition by Italy and Germany of General Franco's ...

    Article : 490 words
  17. GEOLOGISTS FROM JAPAN

    A party of engineers and geologists, under the leadership of Mr. Koichl Fujimura, chief mining engineer of Nippon Mining Co., and an eminent geologist, who visited Western ...

    Article : 141 words
  18. TRAMWAY UNION.

    After a bitter ballot, in which an official A.L.P. ticket was run, Mr. D. P. Whittaker, retiring president and leader of the anti-Lang forces in the Tramway Union, was re-elected ...

    Article : 130 words
  19. WAR ON RACKETEERS.

    Legislation is under way to provide a New York Bureau of Investigation, similar to the notably successful Federal Bureau, for a new and highly organised drive against major ...

    Article : 71 words
  20. STATE LOTTERY.

    It was announced yesterday that the number of prizes in the State lottery would shortly be increased by 445 to 1259, although the total prize-money ...

    Article : 165 words
  21. SHIPPING STRIKE.

    The strike leader on the Pacific Coast (Mr. Harry Bridges) said to-day that the request of Mr. F. Goldberg, a Sydney advertising man, that transportation should be provided to ...

    Article : 157 words
  22. VOTES MAY BE CHALLENGED.

    Voting in the A.L.P. Senate selection ballot and also the ballot for Macquarie preselection was concluded among western mining lodges this week, but the poll of one ...

    Article : 155 words
  23. ROBBERY IN HOTEL.

    The police are puzzled by the circumstances in which Mr. G. Luscombe, licensee of the Royal Standard Hotel, was robbed of a sum of £80 which was taken from a bedroom of ...

    Article : 251 words
  24. RAIDING 'PLANES CAUSE DEVASTATION.

    Only when dawn broke could the havoc done in yesterday's raid by 15 Junker 'planes be assessed. Tramlines were torn up and gaping holes were ...

    Article : 259 words
  25. BRISBANE SHOOTING.

    A tragic shooting in Petrie-terrace, Brisbane, in 1930, has been recalled by the arrival of the victim, Miss Florence Heenan, in Sydney by 'plane last week. ...

    Article : 158 words
  26. 379th LOTTERY.

    The drawing of the principal prizes in the 379th State lottery was conducted at the Australian Hall yesterday by Mr. G. O. Allen, captain of the visiting English cricketers. ...

    Article : 113 words
  27. DAM COLLAPSES.

    At least 300 people were killed when the banks of a reservoir above the Osarusawa copper mine at Akita collapsed. Many miners' houses were washed away. ...

    Article : 121 words
  28. LORD HARTINGTON

    Lord Hartington, Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for the Dominions, who returned to Sydney by the Awatea from New Zealand yesterday, said that the utterances of ...

    Article : 147 words
  29. PUBLICITY SHUNNED.

    The opinion was expressed by Mr. S. McKensey, superintendent of Hebburn Collieries, in a letter to Maitland Show Council. that publicity was not in the best interests ...

    Article : 110 words
  30. TRUCK OVER BANK.

    Five persons were injured—two seriously— when a motor truck driven by Joseph Angnea got out of control at Alfredtown Hill, on the Monaro Highway, this afternoon, and ran ...

    Article : 108 words
  31. IRONWORKERS.

    About 30 ironworkers employed at Chowder Bay on the construction of oil tanks for the Defence Department went on strike yesterday in sympathy with the striking ironworkers in ...

    Article : 103 words
  32. MANLY FERRY FIRE.

    Sidney Tight, 44, a greaser, of Bartonavenue, Haberfield, died in the Mater Misericordiae Hospital yesterday, from injuries he received when the Manly ferry Bellubera was ...

    Article : 69 words
  33. "GOLFER'S SHOULDER."

    "Tennis elbow" has a companion complaint in "golfer's shoulder," which, according to Dr. Abel Francon, writing in "The Lancet," exists exclusively in the left shoulder. A ...

    Article : 67 words
  34. NAVAL DISPOSITIONS.

    [?] important part in the operation of the blockade and bombardment of Government ports will be played, it is expected, by considerable forces, naval and aerial, which have ...

    Article : 373 words
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