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  2. TAXI-CABS.

    The Legislative Council last night, by 25 votes to 18, decided to disallow portion of a regulation under the Transport Act designed to restrict cruising by ...

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  3. SHARK MENACE.

    A sub-committee of the Surf Llfe-Saving Association of Australia has for some considerable time been investigating means of combating the shark menace so as to render ...

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  4. OPPERMAN

    Information was received in Melbourne it an early hour this morning that the Australian cyclist, Hubert Opperman, had broken the record for ...

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  5. DEPORTATION ORDER

    It was explained in Canberra yesterday that the deportation of Mr. J. A. Macarthur Onslow from Norfolk Island had been made under powers conferred on the Administrator of Norfolk Island by an immigration restriction ordinance promulgated in 1922. The ordinance provides for a dictation test. ...

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  6. STRIKE

    It was announced to-night that the general strike committee decided, by 207 votes to 180, to urge all waterfront employees to submit their grievances to ...

    Article : 749 words
  7. SAMOS INCIDENT.

    A statement concerning the shooting of British officers, who were bathing off the Greek Island of Samos, was made in the House of Commons to-day by the Foreign Secretary ...

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  8. DAVIS CUP.

    The Australian and American tennis teams, who will meet in the Inter-zone final of the Davis Cup on Saturday, practised at Wimbledon yesterday. ...

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  9. THE ORDINANCE

    The deportation of Mr. J. A. Macarthur Onslow from Norfolk Island has aroused great interest in official circles in Canberra. The proccedings were taken under the ...

    Article : 421 words
  10. ADMINISTRATOR'S STATEMENT.

    In an interview the Administrator (Captain Pinney) stated that Mr. MacArthur Onslow had been dealt with under the provisions of Immigration Restriction Ordinance, 1922. ...

    Article : 107 words
  11. WORLD SHIPPING.

    The new Lloyd's Register states thnt steamers and motor ships aggregating 2,400,000 tons were broken up in 1933. This is the highest yearly total on record. The total for ...

    Article : 331 words
  12. SOME HARD CLIMBING.

    Opperman reached Inverness, regarded as the heart of the Scottish Highlands, at 4 a.m. yesterday, and was then 4 hours 32 minutes ahead of Rossiter's record, but was still ...

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  13. MR. MACARTHUR ONSLOW'S REPLY.

    Mr. Macarthur Onslow said yesterday that the Administrator was the only man who knew what the trouble was about. "I fell foul of him first," he said, "because ...

    Article : 237 words
  14. FLOODS IN CHINA.

    While Shanghai and Central China are suffering an unprecedented heat wave, having been without rain for 30 days, and with a drought and famine threatened, Harbin is ...

    Article : 182 words
  15. SHOTS EXCHANGED.

    A dramatic duel occurred at the small township of Ebor, between Armidale and Grafton, early on Tuesday morning, when thieves were surprised after they had blown ...

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  16. LONE ATTEMPT.

    An astonishing story of a man's attempt to climb Mount Everest alone is reported from Darjeeling. Maurice Wilson, aged 38, an ex-army ...

    Article : 207 words
  17. THIEVES SUSPECTED.

    A mysterious fire destroyed the offices on the "up" platform at Pennant Hills railway station early yesterday morning. Detectives are testing the theory that the fire may have been ...

    Article : 246 words
  18. HARD TIMES.

    Mr. Lyle M. Spencer, of the University of Washington debating team, who reached Sydney yesterday by the Changte, said that many students graduating from American ...

    Article : 571 words
  19. KINGSFORD SMITH.

    Sir Charles Kingsford Smith yesterday expressed regret that apparently it was deemed necccsary that the name Anzac should not be used for his Lockheed-Altair 'plane, in ...

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  20. NAZI VICTIMS.

    Millions of feet of cinematograph film, in which the men recently executed appear in company with their leaders or are themselves the centre of interest, are being destroyed by ...

    Article : 120 words
  21. MANY STRIKES ELSEWHERE IN U.S.A.

    The strike situation throughout the country is becoming worse. To-day 22,000 textile workers in Alabama walked out, demanding recognition of their unions and improved ...

    Article : 217 words
  22. WHEAT TRADE.

    "The Times" devotas its first editorial to-day to a strong plea for a wheat agreement, stressing that a breakdown would not only be regrettable in itself, but would discourage ...

    Article : 114 words
  23. VICTORIAN SETTLERS.

    Replying to a question by Mr. J. S. Crooke (Con.) in the House of Commons to-day, the Secretary for the Dominions (Mr. J. H. Thomas) said that Britain contributed £10,000 ...

    Article : 225 words
  24. BANKRUPTCY.

    The Federal Cabinet to-day confirmed the decision to place a Commonwealth official in charge of bankruptcy administration in New South Wales. ...

    Article : 307 words
  25. COUNCIL MEETING.

    For the fourth time in succession a meeting of the Cabramatta-Canley Vale Municipal Council lapsed for want of a quorum, when only four of the nine aldermen appeared in ...

    Article : 260 words
  26. LAUNCH IN DISTRESS.

    The crew of a motor launch, which broke down outside Port Stephens while on its way from Tea Gardens to Broken Bay this afternoon, was for several hours in some peril, ...

    Article : 248 words
  27. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The price of gold to-day was £6/18/ an ounce fine, compared with £6/17/11 yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. ...

    Article : 421 words
  28. ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

    An expedition, consisting of members of the Oxford Exploration Club, sailed from London to-day in the Norwegian scaler Signal Horn, of 100 tons, for Ellesmere Island, in the ...

    Article : 174 words
  29. EMPIRE MIGRATION.

    The chairman of the Port of London Authority (Lord Richie) welcomed 50 visitors from the dominions, who inspected the Port of London. ...

    Article : 127 words
  30. GOLD MINING.

    The Minister for Mines (Mr. Vincent) announced in the Legislative Assembly yesterday that the Governmeit was considering an amendment of the Mining Act to prevent any ...

    Article : 285 words
  31. THIRD PARTY RISK.

    The Premier (Mr. Stevens) announced in the Legislative Assembly yesterday that a bill was being prepared to make it compulsory for motor owners to take out insurance ...

    Article : 170 words
  32. STRUGGLE FOR BABY.

    Customers were scattered, and drapery was knocked from counters, at a Bourke-street dinpery store this afternoon, when a mother endeavoured to take her baby from a woman ...

    Article : 189 words
  33. SZECHWAN'S CIVIL WARS.

    Pastor A. Anderson, who has served for 11 years with the Church of Christ mission station in Szechwan, near the Thibetan border, and who arrived by the Change yesterday, ...

    Article : 143 words
  34. MANCHESTER LIBRARY

    The King and Queen were enthusiastically welcomed by great crowds when they visited Manchester to-day to open the new Contral Library, which accommodntes 1,000,000 volumes ...

    Article : 129 words
  35. BRITISH CARS.

    The Society of Motor Manufacturers report that 220,775 cars, a record number, were produced in Britain in 1933. There is now one vehicle in Britain for ...

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  36. WOMAN TOSSED BY COW

    Tossed by a cow while she was playing golf, Mrs. Eva Thompson, 34, of Ella-street, Parkside, suffered lacerations of the left thigh, extensive bruises, and shock. ...

    Article : 94 words
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