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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    A fire started on the property of Eather Bros., Henrienda, at 7 p.m. on Saturday, and burnt 300 acres of timber and grass, and a fair number of fencing posts. The Baan Baa ...

    Article : 63 words
  3. FEDERAL REVENUE

    Although the receipts of the Commonwealth exceeded. exoenditure by £2,113,000 in the first five months of the present financial year, the excess is less by £1,462,000 than in the ...

    Article : 723 words
  4. TARIFF REDUCTIONS.

    The Automotive Manufacturers' Association which is a section of the Chamber of Manufactures of New South Wales, passed a resolution at its Annual meeting last night ...

    Article : 370 words
  5. MINISTER KNIGHTED.

    Sir Challes Marr was knighted for his services as Minister in charge of the Australian tour of the Duke of Gloucester. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 28 words
  6. WAR SERVICE HOMES.

    The Assistant Minister for Repatriation (Mr. Thorby) told a deputation representing re turned soldiers' organisations that he was hopeful of being able to get a reduction of ...

    Article : 503 words
  7. EMPLOYMENT.

    The Cabinet decided yesterday to proceed with as little delay as possible with the schedule of works submitted to the Premiers Conference. ...

    Article : 197 words
  8. UNIVERSITY SENATE.

    Mr. Windeyer and Miss Cohen are the new Government appointees. Messrs. G. Ross Thomas and C. Brunsdon Fleleher have been reappointed. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 39 words
  9. WIDESPREAD RAIN.

    Extensive rain fell over New South Wales during the week-end, accompanied in many cases by violent storms, which battered the crops in the wheat areas. Several instances ...

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  10. MAN BURNED IN LORRY FIRE.

    Late last night a new motor lorry driven by Jack Munns, burst into flames While men were endeavouring to extinguish the blaze the petrol tank exploded, spraying a sheet of flame ...

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  11. MAYORAL ELECTION DECIDED BY DRAW.

    when a special meeting of the council was held to elect the Mayor, the town hall was crowded. Excitement ran high when Dr. G. Fitz Hill, who had been Mayor for the past ...

    Article : 73 words
  12. CHRISTMAS CHEER.

    The Royal Alexandra Hospital foi Children, or, as it is commonly known, the Children's Hospital last year treated more than 40,000 children Most of these children were ...

    Article : 760 words
  13. JEWELLER'S SHOP ROBBED.

    A daring robbery was committed in Inverell ou Saturday night between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. when A. Asher's jewellery shop was broken into and jewellery to the value of £350 to ...

    Article : 106 words
  14. YACHT RACE.

    Captain nibbern, skipper of the Terapunga, which is contesting the Auckland to Melbourne yacht, race against the Ngataki, reported from Russell that, when about 30 miles from ...

    Article : 208 words
  15. NEW GOVERNOR TO OPEN SHOW.

    The Governor-designate of New South Wales (Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven) has accepted an invitation to open Maitland Show on February 28. The invitation was sent by ...

    Article : 44 words
  16. BEES SWARM ON PETROL PUMP.

    A hive of bees swarmed at the week end on a pettol pump on Bowenfels-road. When the proprietor. Mr. Barnes, went to serve a customer with petrol, he found the bees in ...

    Article : 107 words
  17. MATRICULATION SYSTEM.

    Mr. W. S. Leslie headmaster of Barker College at the annual speech day yesterday said that a complete revision of the requirements of the matriculation examination was ...

    Article : 195 words
  18. THE UNIONS.

    The militant minority candidates were decisively defeated in the annual election of officers of the Tramway Union which was held recently. ...

    Article : 165 words
  19. NEW RED CROSS BRANCH.

    After Mr. C. W. Graham, Commissioner for Red Cross country branches addressed a public meeting here, it was derided to form a branch of the society in Albion Park. Officers were ...

    Article : 40 words
  20. SOCIAL PROBLEMS.

    A full meeting of the Australian Hierarchy was held in St. Patrick's Cathedral to-day to discuss a plan of campaign by the Church on matters of religious and social importance. ...

    Article : 201 words
  21. PASTER TRAIN SERVICE.

    The Railway Department has been conducting trials of a faster passenger service between Griffith and Temora, and it is announced that, commencing shortly, probably on ...

    Article : 109 words
  22. M. OCTAVE DUA.

    Another member of the Royal Grand Opera Company anived in Sydney. M. Octave Dua, a lenowned Belgian tenor who has had a distinguished caieei in Europe and America. He ...

    Article : 299 words
  23. SETTLER'S LOSS OF SHEEP.

    Mr. W. G. Connoi, a soldier settler at Bidgeemia, lost more than 20c sheep after dipping them. The loss was attributed by Mr. Connor to the over-strength of the dipping ...

    Article : 57 words
  24. FLOODS IN NEW ZEALAND.

    Floods at North Auckland are causing the dislocation of traffic, and Kalkohe and other townships are either wholly or partly isolated. ...

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  25. MOTORISTS' ESCAPE.

    Swerving to avoid some children who were crossing the road of the biidge, a car, driven by Douglas James, of Goulburn, and containing Allan Meiedlth, of Goulburn, left the ...

    Article : 108 words
  26. PAPAL LEGATE.

    Roman Catholic laymen of Melbourne tendered a dinner to the Papal Legate (Cardinal MacRory) in Menzies' Hotel to-night. It was a notable gathering of distinguished members ...

    Article : 164 words
  27. THE CALL-UP

    A call-up for employment is announced for to-day. Details appear on page 16, column 6. ...

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  28. MIGRATION.

    Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Archibald Weigall, who arrived from London to-day in the liner Strathnaver, said that the governing factor in migration was the power of absorption in ...

    Article : 182 words
  29. TRANSFER OF HOTEL LICENCE REFUSED.

    H.T. S. Wilkinson objected, before Judge Coyle on Saturday, to the decision of the licensing magistrate (Mr. Blavers), in the Wentworth Licensing Court, to transfer the ...

    Article : 162 words
  30. INDEX.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 189 words
  31. DISORDER DENIED.

    The president of the Queensland Lawn Tennis Association (Mr. M. D. Davies) said to-night that at no time did the public gallery at the international tennis matches on the ...

    Article : 118 words
  32. CHILLED BEEF.

    Mr. Ronald A. Vestey, who arrived from London in the Strathnaver to-day, said that by the successful development of her chilled beef trade, Australia should be ably to largely ...

    Article : 229 words
  33. DALY RIVER SETTLERS.

    The lorries which took food supplies to the settlers and miners on the Daly River yesterday arrived back in Darwin to-night. When they arrived at the Daly River last night ...

    Article : 101 words
  34. CASUALTIES.

    Roy Currell, 12, of Main-road, Castle Hill, snd Alan Brock, 10, of Pennant Hills-road. Cattle Hill, were riding their bicycles along Main-road Castle Hill, yesterday when a ...

    Article : 448 words
  35. STATE ELECTIONS.

    The Lakemba U.A.P. Stale electoral conference has endorsed Mr. R. C. Murray as candidate for the next State election. The Dubbo State electorate council of the ...

    Article : 119 words
  36. TRAMWAYS AMBULANCE.

    Mr. J. J. Collins who has been associated with the tramway ambulance corps for more than 10 years was presented with a canteen of cutlery at a function in the Railway ...

    Article : 179 words
  37. NEWCASTLE NEWS.

    In the Newcastle Police Court yesterday, Mr. Soane, S.M., remanded 13 prominent Newcastle industrialists to December 20 on charges of offensive behaviour at Newcastle on Friday ...

    Article : 237 words
  38. ELECTRIFICATION OF TWEED SHIRE.

    The Tweed Shire Council held a conference with Mr. Lane (managing director) and Mr. Arnold (Ballina manager of Electrical construction of Australia, Ltd., one of the firms ...

    Article : 110 words
  39. MAN'S BODY FOUND.

    The bodv of Hairy Kyneur, 21 of Franklin-street, Matraville, was found by a police search party yesterday morning in scrub at Malabar, behind Long Bay Gaol. Theie was a bullet ...

    Article : 120 words
  40. ADVERTISEMENTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 196 words
  41. JUNIOR FARMERS.

    As a result of a visit, from Mr. A. J. Chalmers, of the Education Department, junior farmers' club has been formed in Wellington. There was a large attendance to ...

    Article : 260 words
  42. AUSTRALIAN WRITERS.

    The committee of the Fellowship of Australian Writers decided, by eleven votes to seven, to disapprove the action of the president (Dr. Mackaness) in regard to the ...

    Article : 178 words
  43. UNIFYING GAUGES.

    To suit the convenience of the state Governments, the conference which was to have been held in Canberra on Thursday to discuss the proposed standardisation of railway gauges ...

    Article : 56 words
  44. NATIVE'S DEATH.

    The Coroner (Mr. V. Lampe) found at Darwin to-day that the death of Mairaki the aboriginal who was shot while stealing mangoes at the Bathurst Island mission station ...

    Article : 188 words
  45. HAAGEN HOLENBERGH.

    Mr. Haagen Holenbeigh gave a highly enjoyable piano recital at the Forum Club last night. Opening with the monumental Bach Chaconne artanged by Busont, he phrased ...

    Article : 187 words
  46. BOY FOUND DEAD.

    William Douglas Herley, 14, the son of a share dairy farmer at [?]undewo[?] was found dead early on Saturday morning beside a road more than foui miles from his home. A ...

    Article : 95 words
  47. WONDERFUL WOOL.

    In regard to the article "Wonderful Wool," published in our issue of December 6, "Woolclasser" states that "taking the true wool fibre, we find it to be divided into two distinct ...

    Article : 138 words
  48. TO-DAY.

    Theatre Royal: "The Dubarry," 8. Mayfair Theatre: "The Merry Malones," 8. Criterion Theatre: Let's Go Dancing," 8. Embassy Theatre: "Blossom Time," "Love at ...

    Article : 227 words
  49. "MAKE BELIEVE."

    A. A. Milne's play, "Make Believe," was staged at the King's Hall last night by the Sydney Church of England Grammar School for Girls, Forbes-street. The large audience ...

    Article : 150 words
  50. A PROMISING JUNIOR.

    Jim Cupitl, who is nearly 70 years old, scored the first century of the season in the Lower Richmond cricket competition. Batting with vigour, he knocked up 100 runs in ...

    Article : 51 words
  51. AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURERS.

    At the annual meeting of the Automotive Manufactuiers Association a section of he Chamber of Manufactures of New South wales, held last night, Mr. A. K. Wills was elected ...

    Article : 34 words
  52. SOUTHERN CHINA.

    Mr. C. J. Church, a director of the Eastern Advertising and Publicity Bureau, in an address to the Millions Club last night, said that a British trade exhibition would be held in ...

    Article : 124 words
  53. SHALE POWER SPIRIT.

    The E. and E. Hydrogenation Pty. syndicate has been formed in Sydney to exploit a new process for the distillation of power spirit from shale. The syndicate claims that ...

    Article : 122 words
  54. JAPANESE PLAN

    Members of the Government met wool manufacturers and advised them to accept Japanese exporters' offer of a price compensating fund of 500,000 yen to enable the ...

    Article : 73 words
  55. MR. SCOTT'S COMET

    The De Havilland Comet 'plane used by Mr. C. W. A. Scott and Mr. T. Campbell Black in the centenary air race will be shipped back to England on board the freighter Port ...

    Article : 74 words
  56. LATE SPORTING.

    A late inspection having shown the Milton tennis courts to be unfit for play to-morrow, the Queensland Lawn Tennis Association committee controlling international visits, ...

    Article : 57 words
  57. KISCH AND GRIFFIN.

    Herr Egon Kisch and Mr. Gerald Grim who are visiting Vicaria assied in makin a Cinesound news film at St. Kilda to-day. Others who took part in the production were ...

    Article : 46 words
  58. "CINDERELLA."

    Last night the A.B.C. String Orchestra, conducted by Mr. E. J. Roberts, broadcasted the first performance of Mirrie Hill's Suite, "Cinderella," which is pleasingly and attractively written in ...

    Article : 42 words
  59. SUBURBAN PICTURE THEATRES.

    Programmes of Suburban Picture Theatres will be found in Amusements Advertising columns. ...

    Article : 19 words
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