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  2. GOVERNMENT BAN

    The Bowral Council has decided to obtain its electricity supply from a Berrima company despite a request from the Premier (Mr. Stevens) that it ...

    Article : 472 words
  3. SKILLED LABOUR.

    Referring to a report of a shortage of skilled labour in the building trades because fewer apprentices had been trained in recent years. Mr. R. A. Malloch (chairman of the Equitable ...

    Article : 576 words
  4. £6,000,000 FOR WORKS.

    The State Government has drafted a scheme for Cabinet approval where by £6,000,000 will be expended over a period of two to three years in the development of the State railways. The works will be financed by the State Treasury, and the money will ...

    Article : 90 words
  5. ABORIGINES.

    During the hearing of a charge against an aboriginal of having murdered Constable McColl, Judge Wells said the only inference to be drawn from incidents in this and the ...

    Article : 671 words
  6. GRAIN CROPS.

    The Chicago correspondcnt of the "New York Times" says: "Reports of private grain houses indicate that the losses of grain crops in the United States this season, from heat ...

    Article : 190 words
  7. HINDENBURG.

    Contrary to the wishes of his family, who desired private interment, the German Government has decided to accord the late President von Hindenburg a ...

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  8. AUSTRIA.

    Sitting beneath the grim portrait of the Emperor Francis Joseph in the room next to that in which Dr. Dollfuss was murdered, the new Chancellor (Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg) ...

    Article : 236 words
  9. WORK BETTER THAN DOLE.

    The idea behind the scheme is to improve the efficiency of the plant and equipment of the Railway Department. New types of engines will be used, improvements in rolling ...

    Article : 317 words
  10. SECESSION.

    "Feeling in Western Australia is not likely to be improved by the report of the committee appointed by the Commonwealth Government in reply to the secessionists," says "The ...

    Article : 241 words
  11. EMPIRE GAMES.

    Noel Ryan (Australia) meets I. Plrie, the Canadian swimmer, in the first heat of the 1500 yards. It is expected that both will reach the final which will include the heat-winners ...

    Article : 456 words
  12. POLAR EXPLORATION.

    Sir Hubert Wilkins, Polar explorer, arrived in Sydney yesterday on his way to New Zealand to join the Lincoln Ellsworth expedition. He will not be a member of the ...

    Article : 568 words
  13. HIGHER PRICES.

    The local wheat market has advanced steadily during the last month. At the beginning of July the price of silo wheat in the city parcels trade was 2/9½ to ...

    Article : 303 words
  14. F. J. PERRY.

    The engagement has been announced of F. J. Perry, the famous tennis player, to Miss Mary Lawson, the film actress. Mary Lawson is a young English actress, ...

    Article : 110 words
  15. SPEED TRIALS.

    Sir Charles Kingsford Smith tested the cruising speed of his Lockheed-Altair monoplane, Lady Southern Cross, yesterday. He was satisfied with the result. ...

    Article : 444 words
  16. SLEEPING BABY

    A baby girl who was sleeping undisturbed in a smouldering blanket and a burning clothes basket was courageously rescued by her mother, who also shepherded her five other ...

    Article : 189 words
  17. HUMANE TREATMENT URGED.

    A mass meeting to urge the release of aboriginal prisoners at Darwin and a more humane and scientific treatment of natives generally, will be held at the King's Hall, ...

    Article : 77 words
  18. NAVAL BASE AT DARWIN.

    The newspaper "Information" believes that the United States is seeking an agreement with Biitain and the Soviet, under which she could oppose Japanese enterprise in the Pacific. ...

    Article : 75 words
  19. PROTEST SENT TO MINISTER.

    The council of the Church Missionary Society, at a meeting last night, instructed the secretary (Mr. R. J. Hewett) to send the following telegram to the Minister for the ...

    Article : 98 words
  20. DUKE OF GLOUCESTER.

    The Duke of Gloucester has been promoted to the rank of major in the British Army. ...

    Article : 22 words
  21. GALE OFF ENGLISH COAST.

    The Plymouth lifeboat made an unsuccessful search last night for an unknown vessel which sent up distress signals off Bigbury Bay. There was a heavy gale blowing, and blinding ...

    Article : 100 words
  22. THE TELEPRINTER.

    Standard Telephones and Cables (Australasia), Ltd., yesterday demonstrated to a large assemblage of business men the use of the latest type British teleprinter, which, as its ...

    Article : 365 words
  23. ASSISTANCE TO GROWERS.

    The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Stewart). referring to-night to the decision of the Government to assist the wheat industry, said that estimates made by the Department of ...

    Article : 482 words
  24. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The price of gold to-day was £6/18/11 an ounce fine, compared with £6/18/2 yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. ...

    Article : 678 words
  25. DOMESTIC HELP.

    Employment as domestic helps has been found by St. Mark's Church of England, Northbridge, for many girls from South Coast mining towns. The work is carried out by ...

    Article : 286 words
  26. CHOLERA OUTBREAK.

    Cholera is ravaging large areas of the United Provinces and Madras. The death-roll has reached many thousands. In the Ganjam district of Madras, the ...

    Article : 100 words
  27. STATE LOTTERY.

    His first four prizes in the 214th State lottery were drawn in the Australian Hall yesterday morning by Mr. G. Mooney (chairman of City Tattersall's). ...

    Article : 111 words
  28. STATE GOLD YIELD.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 170 words
  29. UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF.

    The friction between the provincial Governments and the dominion Government over the problem of unemployment relief reached a climax to-day, when the provincial Piemiers ...

    Article : 75 words
  30. FILM QUOTA.

    Representatives of film producers, exhibitors, and distributors attended a conference with the Victorian Chief Secretary (Mr. Macfarlan) and the New South Wales Chief Secretary ...

    Article : 165 words
  31. SHOTS FIRED.

    A suspected thief displayed great agility and stamina yesterday at Summer Hill and escaped fiom two policemen. Shots fired over his head did not daunt him. ...

    Article : 135 words
  32. CITY NOISES.

    Some weeks ago a visiting London nerve specialist commented on the injuiious effect of noises on health. Yesterday a report was made to the ...

    Article : 280 words
  33. AUSTRALIA'S POPULATION.

    In farewelling 25 school girls before their departure for Rotorna, the Under-Secretary for the Dominions (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald) said, "You will see with your own eyes that ...

    Article : 83 words
  34. CONFIDENCE TRICK.

    By a clever variation in confidence tricks a number of Victorian sportsmen have been robbed of sums ranging from £25 down, the latest victim being a bookmaker. ...

    Article : 192 words
  35. ALL BLACKS.

    The State Government and the City Council joined yesterday in a reception, at the Town Hall, to the visiting All Blacks' football team from New Zealand. ...

    Article : 224 words
  36. SILVER MONEY.

    The theft of £300 worth of silver money from a currency broker's office in Grosvenorstreet, city, during the past few weeks is alleged to have been revealed by Sydney ...

    Article : 70 words
  37. BANDITS NEAR FOOCHOW.

    The spokesman of the Foreign Office said to-day that the cruiser Kuma had been sent to Foochow us a precautionary measure, as foreign Consuls had expressed anxiety about ...

    Article : 57 words
  38. ANTHRAX.

    Following upon the discovery of a case of anthrax at Canterbury, the district medical officer, Dr. Telford, has issued a warning against the use of unbranded shaving brushes ...

    Article : 91 words
  39. DAVIS CUP.

    Owing to an injury to E. Maier. Spain forfeited to Yugoslavia in the first round to quality for the Davis Cup. [By special arrangement, Reuter's world ...

    Article : 65 words
  40. AIRMAN SLEEPS IN 'PLANE.

    James Melrose, the young South Australian airman, who recently abandoned an attempt, to lower the record for flight round. Australia, reached Parafield to-day. He intended to ...

    Article : 69 words
  41. WRESTLED IN LIONS' CAGE.

    The well-known Australian wrestler "Tarzan" Billy Meeske (14st) beat Count De Varas (14st 31b) in a freak wrestling match in the lions' cage at Wirth's Circus to-night. It was ...

    Article : 53 words
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